Re: ADHESIONS AND PAIN

From: toni welsh (twelsh1@hotmail.com)
Sat Apr 1 20:11:20 2000


At Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Karla Nygren wrote: >
>Toni,
>
>I have to be different when I do things.....I have had a ct where my
>adhesions showed up. I had very very intense abdominal pain a few months
>after a surgery.....I was transferred by ambulance to Milwaukee, where they
>gave me massive doses of morphine.....as soon as they did a ct scan they
>found a mass of adhesions...roughly the size of a basketball around my
>incisional midline. They were all very inflamed. But of course as doctors
>go they stopped the morphine and gave me motrin!!!!! I want to see some of
>these male doctors suffer with adhesions once!
>
>Karla
>

>>----- Original Message -----
>From: toni welsh <twelsh1@hotmail.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
>Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 8:30 PM
>Subject: Re: ADHESIONS AND PAIN
>
>> At Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Kb1707tiamet@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >Toni, I've never had any adhesions show up on ct scans or ultrasounds or
>> >xrays of any kind. That has happened before & after my hyst. Good luck
>to
>> >you. Karla B.
>>
>> I figured that Karla, but would any kind of mass show up in there even
>> if your female organs are gone? That is what I meant the last one he did
>> before the ovary was removed, he said it was an adrenal mass or
>> something like that, and now really sure what it was, but was that
>> because I still had that last ovary?
>>
>> I guess the gyn means since all the female organs are gone, it would not
>> show any masses, but I thought maybe there would be different masses
>> even if the ovaries are gone. This whole darn thing going on with me
>> has got me so confused I told my husband today. Go off and go on the
>> meds, try to figure if one is helping more than the other! Take
>> care,Toni

So it is possible, Karla, for adhesions to show up on ct scans, then I have to ask my gyn to do something, and find out if they do. All the drs have told me they do not show up on ultrasounds or CT scans. This is what makes me so mad! Are you doing okay for now karla? Thanks for trying to answer my posts, I just am so confused!

Toni


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