Nope, as for me I wouldn't have allowed them to have touched me...and still won't...unless I know that they are the doctors that I need...doctors that know my case and are the best for me. I can't rely on my own beliefs either....too often I just want to get out of pain. Too often I just want to accept that "oh, he is such a nice doctor...he wouldn't want to hurt me". The problem is...too often they will do surgery...they will rip out your insides rather than doing everything delicately. Too often they just don't care. They want your pain to end...but they know that you will be back in 6 months..a year...just as bad if not worse. I have gotten worse each time...my adhesions have multiplied each time. The best doctor for me is one that says....NO! One that says he/she won't do the surgery. They are the ones that at least draw the line and say no more.
Love ya all!
Karla
> Thankyou Jean...God Bless
> --- Jean Long <creative@enter.net> wrote:
> > Marianne,
> > Yes...if I went back in time to my first surgery or
> > any adhesion surgery I would do it again!
> >
> > I never got worse, only better after my adhesion
> > surgeries even if temporarily. I usually lasted a
> > few more years.
> > I guess I am one of the lucky ones, especially since
> > 4 out of 5 were laparotomies.
> > I NEVER had adhesion surgery though until I was to
> > the point of totally unable to function and glued to
> > the sofa in very bad debilitating pain. Until that
> > point I always did whatever I needed to stay as
> > reasonably comfortable as could be possible under
> > the circumstances. I did live with the bloating,
> > regurgitation and constipation.
> > JEAN
> >
> > "If we give all, but don't have love, we gain
> > nothing"
> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "marianne bolding" <ojowojo@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> > <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 8:48 PM
> > Subject: ??????
> >
> > To everyone, you are all so wonderful for providing
> > me (and others) so much advice about heating
> > pads...I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. I did
> > not sleep at all last night. 17 days after laparot.
> > and now I'm back to sleeping on my left side.
> > Why?...I
> > don't know...with acidophilus I have had a daily
> > bowel
> > movement...small baby stool and a lot of work. My
> > doctor said I should be 100% better. He said I
> > should
> > have been better within 3-4 days....wish he were me
> > during this time...maybe he'd believe me more. I
> > seem
> > to be having a problem with belching from the minute
> > I
> > wake up to the time I go to bed. It happens with
> > water, applesauce, gatorade...there is no rhyme or
> > reason...my stomach has been bloating to the point
> > of
> > looking pregnant...mostly after food...any form
> > of...I
> > feel constipated, yet I shouldn't. I feel full even
> > if I don't eat all day. It was the first time I had
> > ever had surgeory...we were checking for endo...and
> > instead of endo it was adhesion involving the
> > intestine...I feel that this is some other
> > intestinal
> > problem...gallbladder...something....has anyone had
> > symptoms like this shortly after surgeory involving
> > their intestine?...my OB doc has provided me with no
> > help...just that I should be better. These symptoms
> > are not in my head, I can't cause myself bloating
> > like
> > this. The stomach seems so active...my pain is all
> > over...it's most tender on the left side
> > mid-abdomen...not so much where my pain was before
> > (my
> > pain before was lower left pelvic area...as my ovary
> > was involved. I have been released to go back to
> > work tomorrow and frankly, I'm scared I won't sleep
> > tonight, and that it'll take me hours to function
> > abdominally and bowel wise tomorrow...I feel I'll
> > need
> > to be up by 3AM to make it to work by 7. If you've
> > had problems with your gallbladder, kidney, liver,
> > pancreas, or appendix....can you tell me if this
> > sounds like any of that...my bro had his appendix
> > out,
> > my father his gallbladder (which gangrened and
> > almost
> > killed him)...I have a gastro appt to set with my
> > PCP
> > tomorrow after work and I want to know all the
> > possibilities....drs. make me nervous and I always
> > forget what I want to say...for fear they'll
> > belittle
> > me in some way...so, I have written a pain log as
> > suggested by Helen's e-mail. Lot's of good info.
> > Janet---You go girl...we are all so proud of you.
> > Sally---feel better, too....everyone..."pain-free to
> > you". Curiousity....if you could go back to the
> > first
> > time you had adhesion removal...would you do it
> > again?
> > It seems so many of you suffer more because of
> > surgeory...if it weren't for bowel blockage...I'd
> > have
> > lived with my pain...knowing what I know now.
> > Marianne
> >
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