Hope this helps you and that you'll be feeling better real soon
Regards Bev
>----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica <Alanjess@Yourlink.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 7:27 AM
Subject: joint pain/flu like symptoms
> Hi!! Hope everyone is having a "good" day today! I am wondering if
> anyone else is or has experienced joint pain/ flu like symptoms? For the
> past month I have felt like I have run a marathon. I had my last
> surgery, a hysterectomy, in May but I still have my ovaries. I felt
> better for about 3 months (even though the pain on my lower left abdomen
> returned after 3 days!) Then about September I started feeling very
> fatigued with pain in my wrists, knees, ankles and feet. Sometimes my
> elbows too. It comes and goes on a daily basis, and when my adhesion
> pain is worse the joints feel better. I still go to work everyday but
> some days I have to drag myself through everything and when I get home I
> just flop in a chair. I had xrays done (hope I don't get cancer from
> all these xrays) and they showed no arthritis. The doctor is running
> blood tests on my thyroid and an ANa test under my insistance. He
> thinks it's stress! But I am not under any more stress than normal (I
> teach autistic children and have a teenager and a preschooler) and
> besides that I know how my body reacts to stress and this is not it!! I
> was just wondering if anyone else experiences these symptoms and if this
> is just another reaction to the adhesions? My prayers to all. "Friends
> that stick together", Jessica
>