At Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Tish wrote:
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>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