Re: Do some adhesions not cause pain??
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Thu Mar 28 16:07:13 2002
At Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Angie wrote:
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>It will not bother me one bit not having that thing
>in there. I refuse to be on pain medication all my life and this is my
>choice. Take it out.
You described massive adhesions, but you did not say whether you are in
pain or not. If you are NOT in any pain now, then there is a reasonably
good chance that after you have your surgery you will still be
pain-free, despite all of the added adhesions caused by the new surgery.
There is also a reasonably good chance that after you have more surgery,
and you have all of the extra adhesions caused by your new surgery, that
you will convert into someone in agonizing pain.
On the other hand, if you ARE in pain now, then the experiences of the
other people here suggest that after your surgery and after you have the
new adhesions from that new surgery, you will be in significantly more
pain than you are now.
The way that you have phrased what you said suggests that someone
(doctor, probably) has told you that you are choosing between a) having
surgery, or b) being on pain meds all your life. As the members here
can attest, that is not the choice. The choice is between a) having the
amount of pain that you have now, or b) having surgery that will put you
in MORE pain than you have now. Sure you MIGHT (if you are lucky) have
a week or a month, or maybe even a year of pain relief, but then it
comes roaring back.
Also, don't sneer at the value of actually being allowed to be on pain
meds for the rest of your life. If your surgeon promises that the
surgery will take away your pain, and then you are back in his office 1
month, 2 months, 6 months later in more agony than you are in now, then
it is the surgeon who has a choice to make. He can admit that he lied
to you. Or he can throw you out of his office sneering that you are
lying. And he can write a letter to every other doctor in town telling
them that you are a liar, and that when you claim that he has done
something that has put you in pain you are lying, and that you are lying
when you say you are in pain. So, do you really trust that this surgeon
will admit that he lied to you? Brave words these: "I refuse to be on
pain medication all my life." Have you considered what your life will be
like if you are in more pain than you are in now and you are not allowed
any pain meds other than the ones you can buy off the shelf?
I know that I'm being really harsh. (Partly because I'm in a lot of
pain today.) But this is real serious stuff. If you have surgery and
end up in agonizing debilitating pain, then the surgeon will shrug and
say, "yeah, well, I guess maybe it doesn't always work." And then YOU,
not the surgeon, will have to live with those consequences for the rest
of your life.
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cathy :-)
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