>----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan" <sabegel@hotmail.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 8:51 PM
Subject: My doctor wont do surgery yet...Help!
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been in pain for the last 7 months or so. I had a lap last
> summer and my doctor removed adhesions from a PID infection. A few
> months later the pain returned and got worse. I have switched gyn's a
> few times and just saw my new one last week. I told him I wanted him to
> do another laparoscopy and check for endo again. He told me I should
> stay on the drugs I am currently taking (neurontin) and start taking a
> birth control pill and one anaprox every day for two months. I will be
> taking five pills a day!
>
> I know that the birth control will probably help regulate my cycles, but
> all the drugs are just going to cover up my pain from the adhesions,
> right? I told him that I have been having bowel problems and bad pain on
> my left side where my small bowel is, and he just said try the drugs
> first. I am worried that I have some sort of small bowel obstruction.
> He did say that if the pain isn't better in two months then we will talk
> about another surgery.
>
> I just dont' know what to do. Two months seems like a long time to
> "wait and see". I asked him if he's used any adhesion barriers before
> and he said yes, but he feels they do not really work. Any advice for
> me??
>
> Thanks,
> Susan
>