Re: ADHESIONS and PAIN to Bonnie

From: Betty Selby (Arthurbett@aol.com)
Tue Sep 24 15:07:23 2002


At Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Helen Chalmers wrote: >
>Dear Bonnie:
>
>To see my old message posted made my mouth
>drop open as I have come so long since I
>wrote that message; so very far. My first
>CT scan was read as negative, but after
>going to another GYN and complaining for
>months of the pain, he sent my x-ray to
>another radiologist who must have been
>looking for adhesions as her report read
>"looks like adhesions, loops of bowel fixed,"
>much to my relief to finally know what I
>had. My GYN (because we know this is a big
>secret now amongest surgeons) didn't tell
>me those exact words, when he called he said,
>"Helen, looks like you have adhesions, but
>you will be fine because they stretch and many
>people live with adhesions with no problem
>at all." Well, I didn't live with them just fine.
>After finding this site and being advised to get my
>medicals I was finally able to understand why I was
>in such pain. It has always plagued me, why this
>surgeon, who didn't even perform my hysterectomy,
>would try to hide the extent of my adhesion involvement.
>Also, on my very first visit to him his first office
>visit note said, "probably adhesions," but he never
>said it to me until he finally had to. It just burns me
>to no end that these surgeons have a good idea what
>we have, but just sit there and will try to give you
>every other diagnosis, just hoping we will give up and
>run away. This just has to be made public, some how
>some way, we must inform the public to prevent all this
>needless suffering.
>
>--
>Helen Chalmers
>

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Did you get help ? I'mhaving the same problem. Betty

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