You can read my story about my last two surgeries this year by visiting my website at http://www.bombobeach.com there is a link to it underneath my signature, it says "My positive SprayGel Experience" there you will find a description of my last three surgeries as well as slides of a section covered in adhesions pre-op, then one as the surgeon gets ready to start cutting a rather bid band of adhesions, and the last shows the surgeon applying SprayGel to the raw surfaces after the lyses of the adhesions. You can click on the indiviadual slides to get a very good blown up version and is easier to see.
Love & warm gentle hugs, Jo
At Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Charlie wrote:
>
>Jo, Thank you and all the others. I feel I have now found many new
>freinds.
>What was different about the lastest surgrey you had done? After reading
>all the stories from everyone I am getting worried if removal is the
>answer or if tring to maintain this way is better. I don't think I can
>stand to go on this way, but to think surgrey could make it worse....
>Would you please give me some basic questions I need to ask the Doc.He
>is the same one that did my hysterectomy so I assumed he would
>understand the scat tissue and what to do about it. Thanks
>
>At Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jo Eslick wrote:
>>
>>Hi Charlie,
>>
>>I am glad that you now understand that you are not alone.... *grin*
>>
>>Good luck with your doctor's appointment next week.... a word of
>>advice, from someone who has learned the hard way about the pain
>>associated with surgery and adhesions. Ask your doctor LOADS of
>>questions, make sure he answers them all in an easy to understand way
>>and that the answers are detailed enough to satisfy you. Ask him about
>>his experiences as a surgeon with adhesions, does he believe they cause
>>pain? How does he treat patients with adhesions and does he believe that
>>surgery will resolve the pain, what is his success rate with adhesions
>>lyses?
>>
>>I have had several surgeries that actually made things much worse, not
>>better. I have had both laparotomies and laparoscopies. It was only
>>when I had my most recent surgery on Aug. 1 that I gained relief.
>>
>>Good luck, and let us know how you get on.
>>
>>Love & warm gentle hugs,
>>Jo
>>
>>--
>>Joanne Eslick
>>Founder Australian Adhesions Support Group
>>http://www.bombobeach.com
>>NSW 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.
>>
>--
>Charlie
>
-- Joanne Eslick Founder Australian Adhesions Support Group http://www.bombobeach.com NSW 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.