>> >>Hi, I visited this message board a couple of years ago because I thought >>I had more adhesions. I had some lysed in 1996 but the pain returned >>after about a year so I assumed it was the adhesions. I've been through >>a lot of pain and doctors since then, but now I'm better after having a >>complete hysterectomy with removal of both ovaries. But I'm still left >>with a very aggravating and persistent pain in my left flank area. I've >>had this pain for about 5 years and was hoping somehow the hyst. would >>take care of it. Well I had the hysterectomy in April of this year but >>I'm still left with the pain in my back on the left side right where my >>kidney is. But I've had the whole Urology work-up to check for stones, >>infection, etc. Everything was normal. I now have a visible knot in >>the area of my pain. My doctors think it could be muscular so I'm doing >>Physical Therapy exercises everyday. Sometimes I think it's helping but >>I always end up laid up on the couch a day to rest my back so I can work >>the next day. Physical Activity makes it worse, like lifting or even >>bending a lot. And when it hurts, it not only causes pain, it also >>makes me feel terrible. It's like that spot on my make contains all my >>nerves or something and when it's really hurting bad, I just want to >>crawl in a hole and cry. I've been diagnosed with having an Illiopsos >>muscle problem, but by what I've read the usually affects you more in >>the groin area. Which I used to hurt there, but I don't now. It's all >>in the one area in my back. Bowel Movements make the pain worse but I >>try my best to stay regular because constipation makes it a lot worse. >>When the pain is at it's worst, it hurts to breath. I wonder if maybe >>it is adhesions from my transverse colon to my diaphragm. I asked my >>gyns to check out that are during my last 2 laprascopic surgeries, but I >>have videotapes of the surgery and neither one of them looked there. >>They just keep saying it has to be muscular. I'm so frustrated and >>tired. This pain makes me very, very tired. I need proof of the pain >>so my PCP will continue to give me the 30 vicoprofen a month he gives >>which is not enough but I make it through work with those. My house is >>a disaster area. I have seen a Physical Rehabilitation specialist about >>the pain and she acted like I should not be there that I should be >>seeing a Gyn again or something. And their the ones that said it was >>muscular and just needed rehabilitating. Erghhhhh! Where do I turn now? >>I'm the type that I need to know what's going on in my body so it's >>driving me crazy not knowing exactly what it is.... But do I just worry >>about living with the pain now? What other tastes can they run? I just >>had a follow up CAT scan.... one I had in 1999 showed scarring in left >>front bottom of a chest scan. Which is same area as pain, only in the >>back. But the follow up scan was completely normal, of course. And >>what is this knot on my back. Doctors seem unconcerned about it.... I'm >>sorry this is so long, guess I just really needed to vent. Any ideas? >>Or anyone else with similar pain? I'm a total loss right now as to what >>to do next. BTW, my meds that I already take are Effexor XR, >>Wellbutrin, Buspar, Estrogen, Progesterone Cream, Acculate (for coughing >>form of Asthma), Neurontin (which does help the pain), and Vicoprofen as >>needed (30 to last 30 days). Thanks to anyone that reads this >>completely, sorry so long... >> >>-- >>Joyce (other posts may have been, BJ or KJ) >>