Re: Shrinking adhesions?
From: Bea Selwood (bea.selwood@paradise.net.nz)
Tue Dec 9 07:35:34 2003
Hello Midwich Sally,
Thanks for your message of encouragement. Had my post-lap. appointment
last week, which was a revelation. My doc is convinced that the
adhesion pattern I showed was typical of chlamydia-induced PID! But
there was absolutely no signs of any active infection (which figures,
because my partner and I are a seriously "Stay At Home" couple!) And
then the surprise - he said that the adhesions looked very old, and that
I had probably contracted the disease about 20 years ago. I had no idea
that chlamydia can go totally undetected, and that the body can
eradicate its active component. I also never had the severe abdominal
pain associated with PID, but you can also get "silent PID" where there
are no symptoms at all! But here's the scary part, its side-effects can
remain dormant in the body for decades, until something like illness or
stress triggers it off. Apparently there were signs of new adhesions
forming and all my internal organs were seriously inflamed, accounting
for the bloating. I am now on antibiotics, which I think are slowly
taking effect. But of course I'm feeling guilty about having had an STD
20 years ago that I knew nothing about, has long gone and hasn't harmed
anyone else. I'm just hopeful that once the infection has gone, I will
be as oblivious of my adhesions as I was for the past 20 years!
My best wishes to all fellow sufferers.
Kiwi Bea
At Mon, 8 Dec 2003, midwich2002@yahoo.com.au wrote:
>
>Dear Newcomer,
>
>I was diagnosed with chronic adhesions that had 'wrapped' themselves
>around my fallopian tubes and were making them adhere to the outside of
>my uterus and all sorts of horrible things. I was told I could never
>have children, and perhaps IVF could help. IVF couldn't and wouldn't
>help because they too went in and had a look and found me full of
>adhesions as well.
>