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