Any good doctors in the Baltimore area?
From: Karen & Tom (lordykalordy@aol.com)
Mon Sep 24 09:32:13 2007
My wife has been totally disabled by mysterious abdominal pain,
constipation, etc. for three years. We have been to many doctors, had
redundant tests, even major (unnecessary) surgery, to no avail.
She's been going to pain management for 2 1/2 years, and living on
dilaudid.
(If I let her have access to the full bottle, she would certainly kill
herself. She's been hanging on purely for my sake for a long time.)
Several leading gastroenterologists in the Baltimore area have given up
on her, actually dismissed her somewhat brusquely, saying they can find
nothing wrong with her.
The last one mumbled something about "maybe in six months or so" finding
someone to do a laparoscopy to check for adhesions.
Last time at pain management we saw a different nurse/practitioner who
also mentioned adhesions.
I'd been hearing that word for some time, but only had a vague sense of
what it meant. So I finally googled it, and was soon reading the
"Patient's Guide" at this site with mounting excitement. This describes
our experiences exactly, right down to the frustration with, and
plummeting opinion of the medical professions.
In the past few weeks, her condition has deteriorated significantly. She
says the pain is worse than childbirth.
We have an appointment to see her surgeon day-after tomorrow (9/25/07),
the say one who did her subtotal colectomy.
I don't know what to expect or hope for. I'd like to think that
surgery, and the use of barriers like Seprafilm , could give her her
life back, but just skimming over this site suggests to me that it's not
that easy.
What can we hope for?
Can anyone recommend any doctors in the Baltimore area?
-----Tom
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