--- On Tue, 4/15/08, IAS Admin (Tracy) <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> wrote:
> From: IAS Admin (Tracy) <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org>
> Subject: The pain is making me crazy
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
> Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 11:49 AM
> Sender: aliciasnanny@aol.com (Lynda)
> Subject: The pain is making me crazy
>
> Nineteen years ago I had a c-sect, and then another
> seventeen years ago,
> and ever since then I have had pain. Several years ago
> they removed my
> uterus due to adenomyosis, and then one ovary a year for
> the next two
> years. When they took the second ovary out (I begged them
> to do it all
> at once) the scar tissue was so bad it took them an hour to
> get to my
> appendix. I woke up with an NG tube, and the doctors were
> afraid my
> bowels might never work properly because of the amount of
> manipulating
> they had to do to them to remove the adhesions. Since
> then, I have had
> three more surgeries--two for scar tissue and then one for
> a hernia I
> developed after the previous one. Now it's been two
> years, and I just
> had my gallbladder out in January. I have pain so severe
> in my lower
> left side of my groin, across my lower back, and down both
> legs. The
> pain is crippling most days, and just walking a few feet is
> a big deal.
> I lost my job because I hadn't been there long enough
> when I needed the
> gallbladder surgery, so now I am without insurance. I am
> 43, and feel
> older then my 82 year old grandmother. I am so depressed
> because I
> can't do things. This is ridiculous. I try heat, and
> ice, and motrin,
> and even xanax the doctor gave me before I lost my
> insurance for stress.