I completely understand. I am 25 and my doctor discovered that my ovaries were attached to my intestines by adhesions. Basically my rectum is adhered completely to my uterus and my small intestines are covered with adhesions. At first he was prepared to go through with the surgery but suddenly he chickened out on me. Right now I am considering if I should go to Dr. Perloe. He an RE that has more experience. I listened to a onhealth.com medical interview he did and he was very, very knowledgeable about this disease.
Adhesions are the worst because I can't predict nor can I handle the pain. I get nauseated at most smells, have pain after eating, intermittent constipation and now vomiting. The pain is this hot white piercing feeling from front to back. Its hard for people to understand. The best way to describe it to them is to get the strongest duct tape, tape it to their legs after they make an open wound on it and try to walk around all day. The tugging and pulling is horrible. I am not easy to vomit and it scares me that this might be a recurrent thing.
Feel free to contact me at rondamoore@hotmail.com. Good luck!!
Sharonda
>From: rachelsoc@aol.com (Rachel)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Adhesions on my intestines
>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:40:20 -0500
>
>Hi. I am so happy to find this forum this morning and I am hoping to
>find someone who understands what I am going through. I am 23 and am
>facing surgery next month to remove several known areas of adhesions
>that are really kinking my intestines. These adhesions are a result of
>surgery to remove an ovary and a football size dermoid cyst when I was
>18. I too know what it feels liked to be ignored and looked at like I
>was crazy when I described mine pain. Luckily I have found a wonderful
>GI who has gone out of his way to take care of me and find a diagnosis.
>I feel like I have been put through the ringer lately with so many
>tests. Upper GI, Upper GI where you swallow a tube while awake,
>colonoscopy, ultrasounds, and vaginal probes. Unfortunately, the
>surgeon will need to go in through the same incision (a six inch
>c-section type) because of the location of the adhesions. He will be
>using Seprafilm to try and avoid reoccurrence. I know that I am strong
>enough to handle this, and I do have a lot of support from my husband
>and our families, but I think it would be helpful to talk to someone
>else going through the same type of thing. Thank you for taking the
>time to read this and hopefully I can connect with some of you.
>
>--
>Rachel
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