>----- Original Message -----
From: Jo Ann Sollazo <jojovi@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 9:47 PM
Subject: Help!! I don't know what to do!
> I have been suffering from pelvic pain for a year and a half now. I
> started when I suffered a incomplete miscarriage which was infected and
> spread. I was in the hospital for about a week. About six months ago
> my doctor tried to scope me and was not able to. He said I was the only
> person he was never able to scope. I have some fibroid tumors on my
> uterus. The pain has gotten worse, I can barely stand at times. He now
> wants to go in and clean up the adhesions and do a Hysterectomy. He
> feels he might as well do a hysterectomy right away because I may need
> one down the road anyway. I am 30 years old and very afriad to lose my
> uterus. I am not planning on having more children, but it scares the
> heck out of me. From everything I have read the adhesions and pain will
> come back anyway, so it really doesn't make since to do anything.
> Could you tell me what the chances are of the pain going away if I have
> the surgery? Do I have to lose my uterus?
>
> Thank you Jo Ann Sollazo
>