Re: ADHESIONS

From: Shawna French (frenchysha@yahoo.com)
Sat Sep 28 13:26:46 2002


sarahwaide@hotmail.com wrote: At Thu, 28 Sep 2000, NANCY wrote: >
>I AM A 49 YEAR OLD FEMALE AND HAVE HAD A HYSTORECTOMY WHEN I WAS 25.. UP
>UNTILL ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO I WAS OK AS FAR AS ADOMINAL PAIN... THEN I
>DEVELOPED A HERNIA IN THE UMBILLICAL AREA AND IT TOOK MONTS AND MONTHS
>TO DISCOVER THIS... THEN THEY DISCOVERED THAT MY GALL BLADDER HAD JUST
>UP AND DIED SO I UNDERWENT SURGERY LAPROSCOPIC.. ONCE I HAD THAT DONE
>IS WHEN I STARTED WITH ALL OF THE STOMACH SWELLING AND FEELING AS THOUGH
>I WAS 9 MONTHS PREGNANT.. TO NO AVAIL AND AN HMO I WENT THROUGH MONTHS
>AND MONTHS OF AGAONY... STILL NO AVAIL... WENT THROUGH EXPLORATORY
>SURGERY AND FOUND MASSIVE SCAR TISSUE IN ABDOMIN AND HERNIA WAS FIXED...
>AT THE END OF ALL OF THIS I HAVE MORE PROBLEMS THAN EVER BEFORE AND NOW
>I AM TOLD TO LIVE WITH IT .. MY DOCTOR TELLS ME I HAVE FIBROMYALGIA OF
>THE STOMACH... HA...
>SO NOW I AM SEEING AND ACCUPUNTURIST WHO HAS HELPED ME SOMEWHAT AS FAR
>AS THE RIB PAIN... I CANNOT WEAR A BRA NOR CAN I WEAR PANTS THAT ARE TO
>SNUG SO I CUT ELASTIC OUT OF WAIST SO I CAN DRESS AND GO TO WORK
>DAILY... I DO THINK THAT I HAVE MASSIVE ADHESIONS OF THE STOMACH AND
>RIBS AND WHERE EVER ELSE THEY HAVE DECIDED TO GO... IS THERE A TEST
>DIAGNOSTIC THAT WILL SHOW ADHESIONS AND EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE BEFORE
>THEY GO IN AND START REMOVING THEM?? PLEASE HELP I HAVE BEEN IN SUCH
>PAIN FOR SO LONG I AM ABOUT TO GIVE UP HERE ... THANKS IN ADVANCE

Hi,Just wanted to say first, it sounds like you are in alot of pain, I am so sorry, there are no tests to see where the adhesions are attached. I do remember however, before 2 of my removals the Drs. were able to see if intestine was stuck to my abdomen wall which also creates ALOT of pain.

One time I had to have resection, and the next I found a Specialist that trys to manipulate the intestine off the abdomen wall and he was successful on that with out resection. Dr. Andrew Cook has a wonderful web site if you haven't already looked at it, it is dr cook@dr cook.com. I hope you can find some pain free days, have you gotten your past surgical reports together and taken them to a new Primary Dr. with the IAS letter to Drs.? As to validate you more? Just wondering. Hope I was of some help to you. Fondly Shawna F.

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