I do want to caution you about MRIs and CR Scans! Neither of these will diagnose adhesions for you!! There is only one way to diagnose adhesions and that is with a diagnostic laparoscopy.
It is our enemy adhesions and its mysterious power over our abdominal organs that cause a person so much pain, so much indecision, and worst of all adhesions...adhesions have a way of controlling and changing our lives...not for the best!
Believe in yourself. Trust your feelings about the pain you have and tell it like it is. Don't let any doctor tell you that the pain you are having is all in your head!! You are deserving of being listened to and being treated with respect. Now set your anxities aside and take charge!! I hope that your doctor will have a compassionate way with his patients an that he will help you to feel comfortable in spite of the pain which you have.
At Wed, 19 May 1999, Christine M. Smith wrote:
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>Well, tomorrow is the day I see the colo-rectal surgeon and I am getting
>nervous. I am sick of going over the same story. I sure hope I am not
>going to hear the same thing! I am praying that he will suggest doing
>something positive, not necessarily surgery, something like CT Scan,
>MRI, something!!!!!Now I am not even 100% convinced my problem is the
>adhesions!After all, the small bowel adhesion released at the first lap
>had NOT reoccurred by the second lap. Maybe the relief of pain after
>the first lap was just a coincidence. It happens, stranger things have
>happened in medicine I'm sure. As good as this might sound (that the
>problem is not really adhesions) it puts me back to the beginning asking
>"what is it?" Well, I'm rambling. Good thing I have to go to work
>tonight. Keep me in your thoughts please.