Re: adhesions
From: Mandy Beatty (mbeatty@mbrmidland.ca)
Wed Jul 23 14:41:16 2003
At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, rick-Craig Richardson wrote:
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>Marias,
>
>I don't think there is such thing as nosey here. The other post you got
>earlier is exactly right. Helen's information is something I went
>through thouroughly. You can search through my post uner craig
>richardson to see my wives story. Sorry for the name change there, I
>don't use my name on internet for privacy reasons. SO don't get
>confused, my name is Rick.
>
>My wife is very bad shape right now, has not been out of bed for a month
>until last night due to a strong injection. My wives adhesions come on
>suddenly and get progressilvly worse. 33 days ago, she was not even on
>pain killers, since the 18th of June, she has not left the bed or couch
>and is going out of her mind with pain. SHe is close to your age. The
>reason we are all telling you to get educated is becasue almost ever
>woman on this site has done exactly what you are doing and following the
>primary surgeon into surgery after surgery. As you read the posts on
>this site, one thing will become evident. Each surgery solves the
>problem for 1 to 3 months and then you are in worse shape. My wives
>last surgery was in Jan 2003. She was in bad shape then, and she is in
>worse now. We are going to Germany in 1 week for her surgery.
>
>The reason I did not want to go to much into detail about my situations
>is that what works for us, might not be the best solution for you. I
>guaranttee that you can be more educated than 90% of the doctors in this
>country after you have thouroughly searched this site and read
>everything. That is what I did, I got all my doctors to finally admit
>they didn't know what they were doing concerning adhesions. Prior to my
>getting educated, they acted like experts.
>
>Just start picking words like surgeries, medications, Helen Dynda,
>adhesions, etc and read the posts. You will get educated real quick.
>And do yourself a favor, ignore the arguing that is going on right now,
>it won't help you in your decision.
>
>Rick
>
>At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, marias wrote:
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>>At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Craig Richardson wrote:
>>>i hope you don not think i am being nosey but what happened to you wife did she have alternatives. what alternatives did they give her, have they put her on pain killers, im only 25 and nobody i know has heard of adhesions so i have to do this on my own. is your wife ok now.
>>>Marias,
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>>>It is imperative that you got educated. I almost put my wife back into
>>>surgery with her OBGYN before I found this site. Reading the horror
>>>stories some of these women have lived, it will give you second thought
>>>of just following your primaries advise.
>>>
>>>At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, marias wrote:
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>>>>At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Rick=Craig Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>Marias,
>>>>>
>>>>>Please make sure you read the quilt and start going through these posts.
>>>>>I have read thousands of them by now. Get educated. Many doctors in
>>>>>this country are not qualified to treat this condition.
>>>>>
>>>>>At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, marias wrote:
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>>>>>>I was diagnosed with adhesions covering my ovaries 3 weeks ago i have to
>>>>>>go back on the 12 august to find out what they are going to do. the
>>>>>>doctor has put me on painkillers untill i go back. i found this website
>>>>>>by looking up all about adhesions. i didn't realise there where so many
>>>>>>people out there that have this condition. i would like to say hello as
>>>>>>i am new to this
>>>>
>>>>I will do thanks for the advise i havn't learnt alot about adhesions but
>>>>maybe i will learn enough by the time i go back as he is thinkig of
>>>>doing more surgery from what i have learnt. I only have my ovaries left
>>>>as i had partial hysterectomy in september so he probably say i have to
>>>>have them taken out. i feel like a butchers board the amount of ops i
>>>>have had so far
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I was diagnosed with Omental adhesions ;ate in March and have been feeling great, but the doctor told me that I need to have this operationin order to get pregnan again, iam only 22 years old and was so healthy before all of this hapend.any advice for me?