Re: need info on sharp excruciating pains!
From: Dawn (dawn@naisp.net)
Mon Jan 20 06:10:54 2003
Dearest Maureen,
Well you sure have found the right place. I am no doc but you sure have
had enough surgeries to have adhesion pain. We know that pain you speak
of all to well. You have taken absolutly the right step in starting to
educate yourself. This site is chock full of information both in the
blue bar to your left and thru the message archives. To use the
archives all you need do is punch in your symptoms or concerns and will
find that many have posted before on the smae subjects.Pay attention to
posts made by Helen Dynda as she is the groups researcher and has many a
link or information that have helped so many in your position. With
this new education you will be able to comminicate with your healthcare
providers in an informed and dignified manner.
We are here for you and you now never have to suffer this alone. You do
not deserve to be in pain and you may wish to add more functionality to
your life by explaining the pain to your docs and asking them to help
you with pain medication. Poor sweet Maureen you are not alone and that
message has a soothing effect. We are all here to try to help each
other and share the pain and the tears with you. Please have hope...you
are really in the right place. Post away. Your pleas will not fall on
deaf ears.
Much love,
Dawn
At Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Maureen wrote:
>
>Hi everyone,
>Thanks so much for being here.
>Please help me with any information you can give me.
>Here is my situation. I am 40 years old.
>I had a c-section (big huge VERTICAL scar)in 1985. Had a
>VBAC in 1988. Had 2 D & Cs in 1998 and 1999 for
>heavy bleeding and fibroids. After many tests and much
>pain finally just had a TAH 5 1/2 months ago.
>My stomach has been distented for years and I have gotten
>these obnoxious sharp pains for years when lying flat
>and moving the wrong way. Pain only lasts for seconds
>up to a minute, but it is excruciating! Now, within the
>past few weeks or so, it happens at many other given times.
>I could just be bending over, or going from a sitting to
>a standing position, coughing, sneezing while in the wrong
>position, lying down, twisting, and man o' man, suddenly
>I will get this shooting pain across my lower abdomen (just
>under the hysterecomy scar and above)that causes me to stop
>dead in my tracks. Its like everything in my insides just
>ripped. Like this tremendous burning sensation. It still
>only lasts for seconds to a minute, but I am petrefied.
>Should I return to my obgyn? Could this be adhesions? I
>have just spent the last three hours researching on the
>internet and I found this site. Please help me.
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I'm no doctor, just a fellow sufferer like you but I hope you consider me a new friend.