My hernia was between mu belly botton and ribcage toward the left. As far as
the spray gell it is the lastest one I do not know the name/
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From: "IAS Admin (Tracy)" <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org>
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Subject: My insight , into the Pit of hell or should I say the Medical
> From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf
> Of
> LOU COOPER
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:39 AM
> To: adhesions-request@adhesions.org
> Subject: Re: My insight , into the Pit of hell or should I say the Medical
>
> Hi Virginia,
> I hope you do not mind if I ask a few ?, were was your hernia, what mesh
> did
> you have put
> in and the name of the spay gel the Dr. used, also when did you have your
> last surgery.
> Wishing you well.
> Lou.
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM, IAS Admin (Tracy)
> <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> wrote:
> Sender: mbrill@frontiernet.net (virginia)
> Subject: My insight , into the Pit of hell or should I say the Medical
> Profession
>
> April 18, 2009
>
> My insight , into the Pit of hell or should I say the Medical Profession
>
> I am a 54 year old female of short stout little over weight and a very
> heavy smoker,
> Over the years of my life starting at the age of 17 I underwent numerous
> open abdominal surgeries. All but the last three there wasn't even an
> option for the procedures to be done Laparoscopy.
>
> With this in mined I now suffer from adhesion related disordered.
>
> Adhesions are bands of scar-like tissue that form between two surfaces
> inside the body.
> Alternative Names
> Pelvic adhesion; Intraperitoneal adhesion; Intrauterine adhesion
> Causes
> Inflammation, surgery, or injury can cause tissues to bond to other
> tissue or organs, much like the process of forming scar tissue.
> Sometimes, adhesions can form between the two surfaces.
>
> My first experience with adhesions is when I had to have emergency
> surgery in 1982 to have both my ovaries removed. Years prior to this
> diagnosis
> I had suffered a lot of pain and unusual systems, but to know avail the
> ovaries ruptured. Surgery lasted 7 hours due to the dense amount of
> adhesions. This was the first time I ever heard of adhesions.
>
>>>From the year 1982 to 2005 I have suffered bowel problems, intentional
> and bladder problems, never any answers to what my aliment was, Just a
> female. In 2005 I went to a surgeon on my own, After a lot of research
> on the subject and he agreed (which most do not) that I was full of
> adhesions. Open operation to have the adhesions removed. But every
> time you are opened adhesions start to grow before you wake up the next
> morning.
>
> This gave me two years before I suffered a complete bowel obstruction.
> They were back and completely wrapped around my bowel, had to have
> resection of my bowel.
>
> I never recovered from this operations.
>
> In and out of every ER in Lancaster and Hershey. Every kind of doctor.
> Sometime put in the hospital on heavy drugs and ng tube down my nose
> etc. Totally frustrated and very sick and most of these last two years
> in extreme pain.
>
> I have been made to endure verbal abuse by doctors and nurses Physical
> abuse - one hospital guards physical picked me up and threw me on the
> floor, Yes by this time I was a crazy woman and they want me to
> committed myself no way. I did pass all there tests so they could not
> commit me.
> Accused of being a drug addict.
> Family and friends pulled away from me after all the medical professions
> said there is nothing wrong and we can do nothing for you. So I must
> like the drugs and attention. Well the attention was great I spent days
> upon days in bed all by myself.
>
> I had to end this some how, some way. Started doing research upon
> research. Learn there was actually a International Adhesions Society.
> Found out that there was real Doctors out that believed everything you
> told. February 2008 and went to see one of these specialist who was
> going to help me just to have my Insurance company say no. There wasn't
> a medical problem. So for one more year I let myself go from on er to
> the other, The pain would get so bad you just had to go. You get a Cat
> Scan, the pain meds told every thing was ok. March of this year I had a
> Cat scan done was told it was normal, I just new it wasn't. I sent it
> to the specialist and he called to say I'd like to know who read this
> You have a hernia. I now needed that same radiologist to re-look at it
> and change his finding so I have the right papers for the insurance
> company. Just to add a little bit more humor here this same er called
> my daughter 2 days after she was there to tell a the radioliist just
> review her tests and she need to have her appendixes out ASAP. How
> interesting it was removed 5 years ago.
>
> Virginia
> New Holland, PA
>