I am your coffee sister LOL. And it mostly works for me.
I have one other thought just to toss in your direction -- and this is just a soft toss, but in the times I had really significant pain and symptoms very much like yours, I had the good luck of finding a chiropractor which did deep muscle work. Not alot of chiropractors do this, maybe some massage geniuses do -- but I found 3 chiropractors at different times that knew deep muscle release. It actually helped me alot. I think muscles got way whacked out and spasmed from the surrounding nerve involvement and all the internal "glue". It helped me alot. Just an FYI.
According to the dr.s i am wall to wall adhesions as well as endo, so this is why i am htinking there is a teeny possibility it might help if you can afford it or it is covered by your insurance. :)
well, now i feel i have contributed to the board in some small way. ANd this morning, my coffee is in your honor LOL.
-tinky
At Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Nancy E. Hale wrote:
>
>Dear Tinky:
>
>Welcome to the Board. You will find plenty of information, love, and
>support here.
>
>More salt is a good idea to raise blood pressure - with one drawback. I do
>eat salt - I cook with it and add a bit more to my plate, so that isn't a
>problem. I don't avoid prepared foods, but I do prefer home made to purchased.
>
>About the bowel problem - I drink 3 or 4 cups of coffee a day at least, and
>no matter how much relaxing I do, my bowels are not regular. I've tried
>high-fibre, low-fibre, and just about every other kind of diet to improve
>bowel function, and it just doesn't help. My adhesions involve the bowel
>and intestines, and taking a laxative just makes the constant pain worse,
>so I avoid anything that will irritate the bowel and make the pain
>worse. I do use Equate brand stool softener, which is the Walmart
>equivalent of Colace.
>
>I don't have a problem with endo - actually exploratory surgery looking for
>endo was how I ended up with the diagnosis of adhesions. You're lucky that
>you do not have a lot of pain - today is one of those days that I have to
>be real careful how I move, stand up, sit, and how much I walk, as the pain
>is really high today. Of course, I had to go get groceries this morning,
>and I almost didn't make it through the grocery store, because I lost the
>feeling in my right leg totally. Thank God for grocery carts to take the
>place of crutches.
>
>Again, welcome to the forum. I'm sure you'll get answers here to any
>questions you may have.
>
>Nancy in NB