Re: New to Board
From: Dee (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Tue Aug 6 08:36:03 2002
At Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Debbie wrote:
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>Hi, I am new to your board. After reading some postings, I do not feel
>so alone in my pain. My adhesion problem started in 1980. I had an
>ovarian cyst that was left for a year and a half. I was 20 years old
>then and was being told that I was too young to have a problem. When
>they finally decided to operate, I was so sick that I ended up with
>peritonitis and 17 pounds of fluid collected in my pelvis area. Since
>then, I have had multiple surgeries for ovarian cysts and adhesion
>problems. I have been out of work for a long time dealing with my
>chronic pain alone as friends and family members just do not want to be
>bothered.
>My pain Doctor wants me to be treated in Duisburg,Germany by Dr. Mathias
>Korell. Is anyone familiar with this Physician and does anyone have an
>idea what the cost of the surgery would be? Thank-you, Debbie
Hi Debbie, I found this site to be a life saver! I thought I was going
crazy with all the pain and such. My friends and family thought I was a
wussy and lazy. It is weird to take comfort in others pain but at least
youknow there are others in the world like you. I have had 8 surgeries
due to adhesions and will probably have another soon because of the
pain. Try to hold off on getting cut on until you just can't stand it
because all it will do is scar again. I have started pain management
and it hasn't worked yet but I have just begun. I don't want to become
a pill junkie so the doc and I are working on non-narcotic ways of
dealing with this. Hope you find comfort in this site. There is also a
lot of info on the experimental things they are using now to stop our
pain. Take care.DEE
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Dee