Pip
>From: johnsrud@allina.com (LauraJ)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
>Subject: update
>Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 05:54:36 -0600
>
>I know it's been a few weeks since I posted anything. I spent a week
>driving back and forth to Mayo. They told me that as long as I am not
>in an acute phase, they were not going to go in again. Pretty much what
>everyone else said. The IPPS doc in Wayzata said my case was very
>complicated and the only thing he was willing to suggest was that I stop
>taking my estrogen supplement for 6 months to see if that would help. I
>saw a pain specialist last week. I think of all of the "specialists"
>I've seen in the last year, he was the most helpful. He started me on
>Ultram. It seems to at least take the sharp edge off of the pain. I am
>also trying biofeedback starting next month. If that doesn't work, he
>said it's back to Darvocet (I already know that works for me). It
>sounds as though there is a consensus that I will have problems for the
>rest of my life, including recurrent partial/total small bowel
>obstructions. I just hope this combination works.
>