Re: Need Advise - Maureen

From: Hchalm@aol.com
Sun Jul 22 08:59:48 2001


Dear Maureen:

Welcome to the board and it wonderful to see someone from MD on the board, not that I wish ARD on anyone, it is just nice to have people near. You are the third one from Maryland that has either contacted me personally or I've seen on the board. Perhaps now, we will have enough to have IAS support meetings in our area.

I see a pain specialist for my adhesions in Centreville VA that has helped me tremendously deal with the pain of ARD. With the help of the medication I can live a somewhat normal life, although there are times that I do get breakthrough pain, but am able to be somewhat productive most of the time, instead of being confined to bed in agony without the medication.

If you are interested in seeing him, please contact me personally, and we can discuss this. Since our options are limited as to the treatment for ARD except for surgery, and I'm not ready for another surgery yet, as the first one didn't work, and am afraid to end up worse than I am now with another one, I have opted to stay on pain management until there is some wonderful breakthrough on the cure for adhesions.

I go right past Damascus on my way to my pain specialist, so if you would like to hook-up let me know.

Helen Chalmers Baltimore, Maryland


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