Re: what else is there?

From: Terri Lynch (tdlynch@alltel.com)
Mon Aug 21 16:35:38 2000


Dear Karla,

Thanks for your story. I really realize for the first time in a year that I am not alone. That there are several women with that same pain and frustrations I feel. I have recently given my life to Christ. Now I am having a better attitude in life because I now know that all things are possible and that if he does not heal me he will give someone the knowledge to help me and all the other women out there...I will keep you in my prayers

God bless you, Terri -----Original Message----- From: Karla <ifirgit@webcntrl.com> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net> Date: Saturday, August 19, 2000 5:19 AM Subject: Re: what else is there?

>HI!
>
>Your story reached out and grabbed me...... perhaps a feeling of my own
>depression. I am, by far, not an expert on adhesions. But the one thing I
>do know is that there is no saying when adhesions will begin to cause
>symptoms. It can be a matter of days or it can be years. Plus, I wonder
>if, given the ways anorexia affects the body, this can cause adhesions as
>well? I do know that adhesions can be caused by things other than surgery.
>Please do not give up on your fight to find answers. Like the rest of us,
>you will probably be told at times that adhesions don't cause pain....or
>there isn't anything wrong with you....or that it is all in your head. Let
>me tell yo u this.....it isn't. It is in your abdomen and its real!
Please >take the time to go to the adhesion quilt and read it. I am sure that you
>will read stories that sound very similar to your own.
>http://www.adhesions.org/quiltframe.htm
>
>Take care and may God Bless you.
>
>Karla N.
>

>>----- Original Message -----
>From: <djr@techno.net.au>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com> >Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:39 AM
>Subject: what else is there?
>
>> I am 34, have had no children, although do have a history of eating
>> disorders.
>> I had my gallbladder out 10 years ago by laproscopy.
>> Over the last year, developing chronic pain in the RHS, with two
>> 'trigger' points, one under my ribs, and one above pelvis. At first I
>> thought it was muscular injury, as I was doing alot of abdominal
>> exercises at the time. Cortisone and rest failed to heal.
>> It flares up particulary if I do any ab exercises, or eat a heavy meal,
>> will wake me at night. There is a heck of alot of very loud intestinal
>> noises that weren't there before, and occassional 'stabs' of pain, I
>> have frequent, awful gas, and I feel very bloated.
>> Just had tests, blood normal, CT scan normal (although showed severley
>> compacted colon, which I though was odd, because I go everyday), and
>> gastroscopy showed no ulcer, but bile and reflux.
>> Due to have a colonscopy, but specialist and I both think it will show
>> nothing, as I don't have the symptoms of Chrohn's, either.
>> He thinks it's adhesions. Why would they form now, 10 years later? It's
>> the only surgery I've ever had.
>> It hurts when I eat, it hurts when I don't eat, it hurts when I move, I
>> feel like I"m constantly being 'pinched' on the RHS, or have a 'stitch'.
>> Abdominal stretching really hurts it, though I do it, because to me,
>> it's always felt kind of 'knotty tissue' rather than organ-based.
>> I've been under huge stress and depression prior to this, as well as
>> trying to recover from another bout of anorexia.
>> I menstruate irregularly, even though I"m normal, healthy weight. (was
>> recently put on HRT which got it going again, I stopped after 3 months
>> and my body took over...now I"ve stopped periods again). I can no
>> longer tell what is causing what.Stress, or do I now have the damn
>> things wrapped around an ovary?
>> I am afraid to eat because it hurts, but I cannot afford to slide back
>> into anorexia again. I am so sad all the time, it feels like I can
>> never get my life together. (I have lost a job over this and the pain.
>> I simply do not understand how this could happen so much later. Someone?
>>
>


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