Abdominal Adhesions
From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Fri Jun 20 20:49:50 2008
From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of
WendyEbbe3@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:16 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Subject: Re: Abdominal Adhesions
Caryn,
Who's your Dr. and where from? I've been existing for two years now and I
can't do it much longer. I appreciate any help you can give me. The Mayo
Clinic won't even take me as a patient they say they can't do any more for
me than is already being done which is pretty much nothing but putting me on
drugs and screwing up my liver and then end up with even more problems so
yeah it's time for surgery again but I won't let these butcher's here gut me
with the laparotomy.
Wendy
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Re: Abdominal Adhesions
Date:
6/4/2008 9:19:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time
From:carynlruzich@comcast.net
To:
adhesions@mail.obgyn.net
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Deanna,
It could very well be adhesions. They start out feeling like a kink or a
knot. Pain can radiate through your back or up your back depending on where
your adhesions are. They eventually will feel as if they're actually
strangling your insides. Most times, I can't stand to wear pants unless
they are really, really loose. Form fitting clothes are out of the questions
for me. I can only stand 'being dressed' for a few hours without feeling
discomfort. I feel like my insides hurt a lot of the time. Now some of
what I'm feeling could be visceral nerve damage from having so many
surgeries. In essence, I'm feeling my insides which you're not supposed to
feel. But because of nerve damage, I do feel my insides. I learned about
that after several different trips to a pain clinic. For me, pain
medications isn't even an option which makes dealing with this extremely
difficult. Pain medication only slows my diges! tive tr ack which will end
up causing a bowel obstruction. It's really a vicious circle.
I am living proof that you can learn to cope. About every two years I have
to have a laparoscopy. Luckily I was turned on to an excellent surgeon who
is a master of laparoscopy. He actually pioneered the lapro technical for
the removal of the gall bladder. I can't even count how many open surgeries
I've had and they are what causes the most damage in terms of adhesions. At
least with laparoscopy, the incisions are small so theoretically, the
adhesions should be small or less. I just had surgery again about 6 weeks
ago and already I feel them back. Not bad, but back.
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