Oh Jo,
I am so very sorry. I just got on the site and am seeing you are having
surgery tomorrow morning. I will be thinking of you, and hope this will
be the end of these boogers!
I reead you have four girls, I have three. God, aren't they something
else? My are not in the teen years yet, but I fear for my sanity, well
what little left I have.
Good Luck Jo, my thoughts are with you.
em
>
>Hi Em,
>
>Thanks for your great message, and I couldn't agree with you more... I
>really believe that at this time the best option is our own diversional
>therapies (anything that is relaxing or help takes our mind off pain, or
>reduces it's affect on how we function through a normal day) with a
>combination of pain medication. I have been doing that for almost
>twelve months!
>
>However :-( when my ovaries were removed last April.... one tiny little
>piece was left behind & I can't believe the havoc & pain this little
>spec of almost nothing has caused!
>
>I had been gradually getting worse (pain wise) over a period of months
>and was put on higher doses of pain meds and then switched to the slow
>release version of the same drug. I was in heaven! I was able to get
>back into activities with my girls (I have four), I was actually
>participating in the running of our own business and I did a few... just
>a few household chores...
>
>BUT enter the nasty ovary remnant... who made my body believe that my
>ovaries had simply switched off...not been removed, so my body started
>to produce all sorts of other chemicals and hormones to try and
>stimulate my hormones back to life.... mmmm well since they ain't
>there.... that wasn't what was happening! I was getting some pretty
>impressive sized cysts which would kinda just make my pain a little more
>than I could handle...and I can be pretty determined...
>
>4 weeks ago I visited my specialist for an outpatients visit because i
>was starting to feel as though something wasn't right, and that my pain
>was increasing & my new wonder drug and pain management routine was
>taking a nosedive. So we upped the meds, changed a few things around,
>had an internal (aren't they one of our favourite things? NOT!) I also
>had a vaginal ultrasound to confirm yep, you guessed it another cyst!
>*sigh* this one however was playing a new game called push into the back
>wall of my bladder and make the stubborn beast work less than it already
>does! So, self-catheterisation became a more frequent event in my
>day-to-day life.
>
>I had another exam with the physio, because I wanted to check if the
>exercises I was doing were working... yep, another internal, so all of
>that coupled with a three and a half hour bumpy car ride to Sydney from
>Bathurst left me feeling pretty yuk.... so I decided that collapsing in
>the foyer as we were leaving was a great way to protest about my pain...
>so here I am four weeks later after trying all sorts of things like
>rest, extra pain meds, all sorts of really exciting tests (none of them
>suitable for description here....for further details send a personal
>email ;-))
>
>So, I have come to the end of my choices and surgery on Thursday
>afternoon to remove the ovarian remnant, oh and just to make things a
>little more interesting, the remnant is in my cul-de-sac where yup you
>guessed it my worst adhesions live there in fact, my last gynaecologist
>said my cul-de-sac just doesn't exist anymore it's just adhesions.
>
>So fingers & toes crossed and so many people sending positive thoughts
>and prayers my way, hopefully this surgery will be the end to this part
>of my saga, and I can go back to pain management...mmm ... all though
>PAIN FREE would be nice... nahhhh better not get my hopes up too high!
>
>--
>Love and gentle hugs,
>Joanne Eslick
>Founder Australian Adhesions Support Group
>http://www.bombobeach.com
>Australian Co-ordinator of
>International Adhesions Society
>http://www.adhesions.org
>
>--
>I am not a medical person, and all my messages are based
>on personal experience. I am a fellow adhesions sufferer
>reaching out to help others.
>