At Sun, 16 Apr 2000, ama wrote:
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>At Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dana wrote:
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>>Hello everyone.
>>
>>I've been reading a lot of the messages posted
>>for quite some time and they have been a lot of
>>help to me. I have had five abdominal surgeries,
>>with four of the surgeries occurring within the
>>last five months. Let me briefly explain.... On
>>9/30/99 I had a beautiful baby girl by c-section.
>>Two days later, I had to have an emergency lapa-
>>rotomy due to the fact that my abdomen was severely
>>distended (I looked like I was pregnant with quadruplets).
>>They found my colon was obstructed and had to repair it.
>>I slowly recovered and found myself in severe pain
>>about 9 weeks later. At that time, they drained
>>a pelvic hematoma and that brought relief for about
>>7 more weeks. The pain then returned and they did
>>another laporotomy and found adhesions and an ovarian
>>cyst. They had tried doing a laparoscopy, but couldn't
>>get the scope in due to the adhesions. About 3 weeks
>>after this surgery, I was back in the hospital, in pain, with another
>>laparotomy looming. We decided that the
>>do a total hysterectomy and
>>appendectomy while they were in there. They did those procedures, plus
>>lysed adhesions and used Interceed. After the surgery, my surgeon told
>>me that the adhesions weren't as severe as initially thought, but that I
>>did have many.
>>
>>I am now 3 weeks post-surgery and starting to have more pain - I'm not
>>sure if it's related to adhesions or not. My surgeon is one of the many
>>that doesn't put a lot of credence into "adhesion pain." I doubt if
>>he'll want to do anything further surgically with me, and I don't want
>>that either.
>>
>>I guess my question for anyone is how do you deal with the emotional
>>consequences of such a debilitating problem? I am currently on an
>>anti-depressant and it is helping, but I still have thoughts of
>>hopelessness and sometimes suicide. I want to be a worthwhile mother
>>and wife and it is so hard when in constant pain. If anyone has any
>>advice for me, I would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>>Thank you and take care all.
>
>Dana,
>That is terrible what happened to you, especially just after having a
>baby! I am wondering if you are feeling any better now? I just had a
>lap. last week for lysis of adhesions on my bowel and I am having the
>same pain that I had prior to surg. I had a hysterectomy last year for
>endometriosis after being on lupron for three years, I was symptom free
>for awhile and felt very free not to be on Lupron anymore and being a
>constant "patient". I'm hoping this is a temporary post-surgical pain!
>Hope your doing well!
>
>thanks,
>
>--
>ama
>
-- Robin