At Tue, 23 Apr 2002, gidge wrote:
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>Hi there, I have adhesions on my bowel from my hyst two years ago, that
>a general surgeon has agreed to go in with the scope, see if he can get,
>and if not will open me up to get them, as they are causing an awful lot
>of pain. () Some of you may remember me, I have posted before. I also
>have pain at the right end of my incision, that gets much worse the more
>activity I have and also with bowel movements, the pain goes into my
>groin and hip as well. After a five minute examination the gen.surg
>tells me he doesn't think there is anything he can do for that area as
>he thinks it's an entrapped nerve......I asked if he could "release it"
>and he said the chances were slim, what they usually do is a nerve
>block, but I also have a life threatening allergy to local anesthetic so
>I cant' have those. I just wonder if anyone else has had this, I wish
>the surgeon would just open it and explore it at least, it hurts that
>much. Thanks for any imput, he is going to use intercede, which I will
>have to pay for as our hospital doesn't cover it ($300).