Anybody's adhesions CAUSED by gallbladder removal? - Anwer: YES. MINE WAS.
From: International Adhesions Society (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Fri Nov 12 16:16:49 2004
From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org]On Behalf Of
New York Surrette
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Anybody's adhesions CAUSED by gallbladder removal? - Anwer:
YES. MINE WAS.
wow.
this is what happened to me.
After they FINALLY FIGURED OUT THE DISEASED
Gallbladder wasn't in my head - they took it out
with the open-wide type of surgery.
Then came terrible pain and problems of a
different nature as well.
had terrible reflux - if I bent down to pick
up something - vomit came out.
Pain so bad in my stomach-stomach... keeping
me in bed until I took 10 Zantacs or whatever.
Also - which was and is worse -
is the right sided pain.
sometimes goes around my back and chest.
also have to lie of my right side to control
the pain when it comes in 'spells' .
Once I was on my right-side for 2 weeks before
I could sit up straight.
Sometimes I bend a certain way - laughing or
just sitting - and I can feel something twisting
and cramping on that same side and I have to
move around pretty fast to 'untie' the pain
so-to-speak.
Of course - er's and dr.'s keep telling me
it's in my head.
NO TESTS show a problem.
NONE.
but the specialist I just got in the New York
area said no tests WOULD SHOW this type of thing.
I had to get on a very serious mediation for pain -
because no doctor for the last 5 years believed me.
thought I only wanted pain pills and that I had
some mental problem.
so I got on METHADONE - used mostly to treat
heroin addicts. for me - it was to treat the pain -
since I get dosed every day with it - without fail...
I show up and the medicine lasts almost the entire
day.
HOWEVER I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS desperate move -
since the dose has to keep increasing to
unbelievable levels. how I will EVER get off of
this medicine is beyond me.
But for today - I can still get out of bed...
drive... go out without the fear I'd fall down
in a ball of pain.
go to a specialist.
explain your symptoms.
DO NOT try to control the pain by yourself.
there are SOME GOOD doctors out here.
JUST KEEP LOOKING and get names from these emails.
OH.
I also have difficulty breathing sometimes...
like my right lung doesn't expand all the way.
ya. sounds mental, doesn't it.
but it's true.
that's been hard too.
but I was given Ativan for anxiety - cause they
all thought this was in my head.
but in one test - just ONE - they saw something
that kept my diaphragm from expanding - right side.
I SAID SEE!
IN MY HEAD, EH!
But still no one has fixed it.
hard to remove the scar tissue - since it will
most likely return.
but some doctors and patients have had good luck
with new techniques.
Adhesions are the same thing - some of us just have
them in different locations.
I am like yours though - caused by removal of that
gallbladder.
But YOU keep trying.
get names like we suggest - people here on this
list are here for you... not just ourselves.
you are on the right track.
p.s. anyone have that SWALLOW-THE-PILL test done?
that camera you swallow ???
I am wondering if that will show something in regards to us.
God be with you - and with all of us who continue to suffer.
-MJ
>----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:54 PM
Sender: snarine@jjc.edu
Subject: Re: Anybody's adhesions CAUSED by gallbladder removal?
I too was diagnosed with adhesions after my
gall bladder surgery about 2 yrs ago. Can
you tell me the type of pain you are
experiencing or what you do to relieve them.
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