My Adhesion Experience (continued)
From: Max Brown (maxbrown@fuse.net)
Fri Sep 17 10:29:06 2004
After finding how much diet helped my adhesion pain I decided to
experiment (safely) with other possible aids. Having done some medical
research on my job I probably was in a better position to do this than
most. About 2000 I started walking 12 miles per week in three 4-mile
sessions. Again, the positive results were very noticeable. My pain
episodes were reduced though not as quickly or as much as diet had
done.If I had to quantify it I would say diet reduced my time in pain
from 80% of the time to 40% and exercise reduced that to 25%.
I noticed that I had more pain when under stress or excitement than
otherwise (daughter's wedding and vacations were particularly bad). So
I discussed depression (antianxiety) medications with my physician. I
tried three (at different times) but to no avail. However, the fourth
medication seemed to help. I only take it when I feel stressed or when
I feel pain coming on. I doubt the same medication would be helpful to
most people and there is potential for abuse so I thought very long
about whether I should give the name. On the chance it might help
someone I will tell you it is Xanax. I take about 8-10 0.25 MG tablets
per MONTH. Please discuss this in depth with your physian before trying
it and please don't overdo it. I find if one or two (the second 12
hours later) tablets don't work, additional medication doesn't help.
Xanax does not seem to be a common prescription for adhesions. In my
case, I estimate medication reduced pain from 25% of the time to 15%.
I also noticed that after a blocked intestine episode I had less pain
for a week or so. I lose about 10 pounds in each episode (average) and
gain it back in roughly 10 days. Since adhesion pain is initiated by
pulling by the adhesion it makes sense to me that reducing the distance
between ends (oversimplified)by removing fat might help. I'm trying
weight loss with initially good results.
My quality of life has improved greatly in the last few years and I'm
getting back into society. I have pain probably less than 10% of the
time in the past few months. Perhaps it is just my body adjusting but I
truly believe the above items helped me.
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Max Brown
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