Karla
--- "cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com> wrote:
> Please please please go to http://www.adhesions.org
> and click on the
> "adhesions quilt" Go down and read the story of
> Karla N. A hysterectomy
> will NOT "fix all of this adhesion growth." The
> adhesions are NOT
> "coming from" your uterus. Your adhesions are
> "coming from" their
> scalpels! An adhesion is a "healed up" surgical cut.
> (That's the most
> common cause of adhesions. The less common cause is
> that an adhesion is
> a "healed up" infection.) If they cut out your
> uterus and/or ovaries,
> then you will grow adhesions from all of the places
> left in your body
> that they cut the organs out of. If they cut every
> single adhesion out
> of your abdomen and very very meticulously tie off
> or cauterize every
> single tiny bleeder, and keep the surgical field
> irrigated the whole
> time, and they do this laporoscopically, then you
> MAY end up 2 weeks
> after the surgery with fewer adhesions than you went
> into the operating
> room with. But this meticulous surgical technique
> is very time
> consuming -- like 6, 10, 12 hours under the knife.
> And it requires
> great skill. The insurance companies have decided
> that they will pay a
> few thousand dollars for this surgery. It costs
> $20,000 to $40,000, so
> basically you are not insured for this surgery. You
> have the choice of
> going to Germany where you can pay for it out of
> your own pocket (and
> the cost is subsidized by the German taxpayers --
> people here have spent
> roughly $6000-$7000 on this option.)
>
> It sounds like your doctors are telling you that
> they are planning to
> just go smashing in there, grab your uterus (and
> ovaries) and then back
> out leaving all of the adhesions and lots of
> dried-out bloody tissues
> behind to form gobs and gobs of new adhesions.
> Unless of course they
> are volunteering to go in and do $40,000 surgery on
> you and take the
> $2000 your insurance company is going to give
> them... Ok, I'm cynical,
> but "follow the money." If the only surgery out
> there that isn't going
> to make you worse is supposed to cost $40,000, then
> don't let anybody do
> $2000 surgery on you instead.
>
> I think the first thing you should investigate is
> whether you need the
> hysterectomy at all. It's certainly possible that
> you have some
> pathology separate from adhesions that make the
> hysterectomy a good
> idea. It is also possible that the adhesions have
> strangulated your
> uterus and it needs to come out. But taking your
> uterus just because
> you have abdominal adhesions makes about as much
> sense as amputating
> your pinky because your thumb has gangrene. (I
> always wonder what it is
> that they tell men who have adhesions in these
> situations. A man needs
> a hysterectomy like a fish needs a bicycle!
> heeheehee)
>
> At Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Angela wrote:
> >
> >I need help! I have had 4 surgeries in the past two
> and half years, and
> >recently,on March 21st after trying to get a
> hysterectomy, the doctor
> >has to stop the operation because I had to many
> adheshions around the
> >bladder. He said if he proceeded I would have lost
> it. So here I am in
> >pain again, waiting for yet another specialist to
> try to fix the other
> >half of the operation my doctor could not complete.
> Will a hysterectomy
> >fix all of this adheshion growth? They say that is
> where they are coming
> >from. And what about bladder operations? I have no
> idea what I am in
> >for and I need some first hand advice on what to
> expect. I want the
> >best doctor I can get, but how do I begin to even
> find one? I just want
> >this pain to be over. I do not want to keep going
> through surgeries and
> >hurting all the time. Ican hardly take it anymore.
> The trauma of all
> >this is starting to take a real emothional toll on
> me. I am a strong
> >person, and I try hard to keep it in so my family
> doesn't know how much
> >it hurts inside, but if I don't get some support
> soon I think I might
> >just lose it. This is all so confusing to me.
> Please any advice?
>
> --
> cathy :-)
>
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