MANY OPERATIONS, NO RELIEF

From: Helen Dynda (olddad66@runestone.net)
Sat May 24 18:27:17 2003


MANY OPERATIONS, NO RELIEF.....By Beverly Doucette "Every time a doctor operates -- whether it’s a big incision or a little one -- scar tissue forms inside the pelvis," Barbara Levy, M.D. says. "This scar tissue -- known as adhesions -- can cause pain."

"And then there’s the issue of nerve damage," Dan Martin, M.D. says. "Multiple surgeries seem to be linked with pain from injured nerves. Many women undergo surgery over and over again."

"If you peruse the endometriosis discussion groups and bulletin boards on the Internet, it is not unusual to read accounts of women who’ve had multiple surgeries: 12, 13, 14, even more -- and still suffer from pelvic pain. These women believe that they need more surgery; because their trusted physician’s have told them that the endometriosis has grown back and another operation is the only solution. So why would women keep coming back for a treatment that seems so ineffective? Well, first and foremost, it’s because their pain is so unbearable," says Dr. Martin, a reproductive surgeon and a clinical associate professor at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.

Adhesion Related Disease is THE most infringing and disabling disease in the world today. Yet it is not addressed as a medical condition in and of itself.


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