Re: Do some adhesions not cause pain??

From: rowdyladyrose@aol.com
Fri Mar 29 10:06:08 2002


Unfortunately, I agree with Cathy...I have had 'everything' taken out and I still have adhesions, I still have debilitating pain and I still have to fight for my pain meds. I WILL be on pain meds the rest of my life (I'm only 44, by the way) and I'd rather be on them than not be here at all (which I consider my only other 'alternative'.

Good Luck. Hope we haven't added to your pain or confusion.

kcmo rose

At Thu, 28 Mar 2002, cathy:- wrote: >
>At Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Angie wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
>--
>cathy :-)
>


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