SUCCESS STORY!

From: sandy (sandrahippie@msn.com)
Thu Jan 1 19:07:22 2004


Hello to all, I am sending a success story to the site and also many thanks for the help and responses from the readers. I first found the site on Oct. 19. and was so thrilled to read of other people having same problams so I didnt feel I was the only one. I spent three years and a dozen different doctors telling me their oppinion of what was wrong with me. I knew what was wrong but they wouldn't listen. I had all the medical records to prove my condition but all I came up with was their condesending holyier than thou attitude. I heard, go to pain management, take pills, adhesions don't hurt, get a shot to numb the pain, we would just have to open you up and creat more adhesions, it's nerve endings, its all in your head, I CAN'T HELP YOU, GO TO THIS NEXT SPECIALIST! I was fed up! I hurt! 24-7, I HURT!!

Now the good part. Because of this site and sugestions from several readers I found Dr. Clark Gerhart in Wilkes Barre, Pa. I e-mailed him and he responded the very next day! The most inportant thing he told me was " I can help". All the arrangements were made by his wonderful office staff, I made the eight hour trip, I had my surgery on Dec. 10, was there nine days, after he got in there he found the worst case scenero and fixed it. I had to have a bowel resection and tons of adhesion removal that was plastering down my intestines. He did this all by laproscopy and I only have 4 small incisions. Dr. Gerhart did what a dozen other doctors couldn't! I am home now recouperating and feeling so much better.

Please, any of you who are having problems with adhesions or ARD, it would be worth your time to at least visit his web site and see the credentials of this wonderful doctor. http://www.generalsurgeryinfo.com http://www.adlap.com/gerhart.htm

Thank you international adhesion site for allowing us to share our stories.... Sandra

[moderator note: you can go directly to Adlap's website by clicking the logo under "Sponsors" -- just look for it on the right side of your screen while at http://www.adhesions.org]


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