Thanks Joan for the information. I am glad I found this website, I
thought i was going crazy..as it sounds alot of other people are in the
same boat. I truly thank you for responding to my cries for help! I am
having a hard time sitting here due to pain, is there something I can
ask my Dr. for to help with that?
At Mon, 9 Mar 2009, jetstamp wrote:
> >At Mon, 9 Mar 2009, vicki wrote: >> >>I have been in pain for 5 months. It's ok in the morning when I get out >>of bed, but when the day goes on, as I sit too long or bend too much the >>aggravating pain returns in my "kidney" area and around to my lower left >>side. It can get VERY bad by the end of the day, but if I lay down it >>gets better.. I have had a CT scan, xrays, urine tests, blood tests, >>and colonoscopy. I have been to 3 Dr's, and the emergency room 3 times >>for the same left flank pain that wraps around to the lower left side. >>They say It's probably adhesions but the ct scan and xrays don't support >>that. HELP!!! Can a ct scan miss this? I can relate to so many of the >>emails on this forum. Can anyone help me? I have a dr's apt tuesday >>3/10 with a surgeon. any advice? Thanks Vicki > >Vicki, >One problem with 'allopathic medicine' (i.e., the doctors we normally go >to) is that it is pretty much 'organ' based and mostly they are trained >to look for things they can see under a microscope within a specific >organ- mainly cancer. Sure, they can put a cast on a broken arm and >diagnose and prescribe medication for infections but their main focus is >cancer or obvious issues with a particular organ. > >It's like looking at a forest. An allopathic doctor is looking for a >specific 'tree'- but is blind to the forest as a whole. They are lousy >at 'whole body' medicine, which something like adhesions should be >categorized as being in. Many of us have adhesions in multiple areas >from the groin up to the chest, hence, they are not limited to one >specific organ and do not fit neatly into any one specialty (i.e. >gynecology, urology, gastroenterology, etc.) which is why patients like >me have been bounced back and forth from one specilaist to another over >the years, with each one telling me to 'go back to the other' and never >accomplishing anything but a lighter wallet. > >So, this would explain in part why diagnostic tools like the fMRI are >not widely available even to this day- (at least, as far as I know they >aren't readily available) because they aren't needed for a typical >allopathic doctors' line of work. At least not until the problem of >adhesions becomes more publicly recognized for causing the problems that >they do. > >That's why I'm doing what I can with letter writing, as others here have >suggested. I'm going to do a new post about what I've been including in >these letters. > >Joan