I cant believe i finally found a place to talk about adhesions, i am
crying right now because i realize now that i am not alone in thi world
of misery!
On Oct 12 2000 i had a total abdominal hysterectomy and on Jan 8th 2001
my life with adhesions truly began..i had terrible pain..especially when
i stood up. I went to my Dr and he said its probably adhesions and
theres nothing you can do for this problem but take narcotics..there
beggining my life on narcotics.
I went to Dr after Dr after Dr and they have all passed me on to another
Dr..i have had CT scans MRIs XRays you name it ive had it..all tests
showed there to be no problem..but yet they all wrote me Rxs for
Narcotic pain relief! Finally in Nov 2001 i hit upon a Dr who said ok
yeah we need to do surgery to relieve this pain...even though he was
sceptical that adhesions were causing the pain..well he did laparoscopy
on me and found that i had massive adhesions..My lower intestines were
pulled up to belly button level and my bladder was above that..sucked up
by adhesions...he made one small cut on my belly button and one larger
cut on the original hysterectomy scar...he cut all of these adhesions
and announced to my family that i was all better and that adhesions
generally do not reoccur..so my pain was finally over..well yeah it was
for about 3 weeks i felt like my old self no narcotics no pain no
nothing...But now i have a whole different type of pain..and bowel
problems and pain and pressure..and yes im back on the narcotics again
and so depressed i cant even see straight..is this as good as my life
will ever get? Why dont Drs tell you that this could happen before you
have surgery? Why dont they believe you when you tell them how bad the
pain is...why do they have to look at you like your just a simple
hypochondriac? Why dont they know how bad this problem is? I even had
one Dr tell me that ADHESIONS CANNOT CAUSE PAIN! its Scientifically
impossible! Well Ok well why am i in so much pain then?? What is it from
if its not adhesions then it must be something else please fix
it...Thanks to anyone who listens.
Tish