At Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mary Wade wrote:
> >Oh Helen! What a wonderful piece you wrote. I am just beginning to sort >through my old baggage in my brain as I re-assess where I have been with my >endo/adhesions. Examples: One doc said, "You are just a tight-assed >woman." Another said, "Get up...and MOVE..." Yet another "you hurt here >and here and here and there??? Now where do you really hurt?" And then >there was, "I can put your mind at ease. You don't have cancer." And "You >are 45, but you have the gut of an 80 year old." I'm not a doctor >basher.....I truly believe that these doctors did not know what they were >looking at nor what they could do to help. The IAS group is a witness to how >difficult it is to get the proper diagnosis and treatment. > >I needed to do something with that part of my Self that these experiences >had hurt. One day, someone said to me that they admired my courage to have >kept on going inspite of the pain. Gosh...courage...I AM brave, I realized. >It felt good to think about my response to pain in a positive light. >Gradually, I began to realize that the messages that I had internalized from >all of the medical "dismissal" were messages that were not true or helpful. >(LOL at myself...Watch out...now I am going to sound like that guy on >Saturday Night Live who says those lines that go something like "I'm good >enough, I'm smart enough...........and people LIKE me.") Anyway, I did a >thorough self-evaluation and I liked what I found. I pronounced myself >brave, sane, loving, and smart (well..ok...make that "smart enough"). As I >have thought about myself in this new light, my frustrations from all the >mistaken evaluations have greatly lessened. And I see brave, sane, loving, >smart people contributing to this board daily. I'd advise us all to give >ourselves credit...where credit is due. It makes those wrong evaluations >that others made seem much less important. > >At 12:31 PM 12/4/00 -0600, you wrote: >>A laparotomy in 1970 changed my life forever!! Since that time I have >experienced all of the following: >>** If you have severe chronic pelvic pain... >> >>** If have all your tests have been normal... >> >>** If you are told that your symptoms are functional in origin... >> >>** If you have been told that stress is causing your pain... >> >>** If you have been told that " It's all in your head ".... >> >>** If you are told that an allergy may be responsible for your pain.... >> >>** If your doctor has been so insensitive as to laugh at you, when you have >come to him/her for help... >> >>** If you have been told that there is nothing wrong... >> >>** If you have been told that you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS); but >you do not have the classic IBS symptoms ( constipation and diarrhea) ... >> >>** If your doctor tells you that the cause of your pain is Fibromyalgia ( >because your pain is referred to other parts of your abdomen )... >> >>** If your doctor suggests that you need to have a mental health evaluation... >> >>** If your doctor prescribes Tranquilizers... >> >>IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT ADHESIONS COULD BE THE CAUSE OF YOUR CHRONIC >PAIN!!! In 1997 I had a Diagnostic Laparoscopy -- which PROVED that there >was a VALID REASON for the severe chronic pain, which I had endured. >MASSIVE ADHESIONS HAD ATTACHED MY OMENTUM TO MY ABDOMINAL WALL!!! >> >>A DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY is the ONLY WAY that ADHESIONS can be diagnosed!! >> >>A DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY is the ONLY WAY that ENDOMETRIOSIS can be diagnosed!! >> >><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> >><HTML><HEAD> >><META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> >><META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> >><STYLE></STYLE> >></HEAD> >><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> >><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A laparotomy in 1970 changed my life >>forever!! Since that time I have experienced all of the >>following:</DIV> >><P>** If you have severe chronic pelvic pain... >><P>** If have all your tests have been normal... >><P>** If you are told that your symptoms are functional in origin... >><P>** If you have been told that stress is causing your pain... >><P>** If you have been told that " It's all in your head ".... >><P>** If you are told that an allergy may be responsible for your pain.... >><P>** If your doctor has been so insensitive as to laugh at you, when you have >>come to him/her for help... >><P>** If you have been told that there is nothing wrong... >><P>** If you have been told that you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS); but >>you do not have the classic IBS symptoms ( constipation and diarrhea) .. >><P>** If your doctor tells you that the cause of your pain is >>Fibromyalgia ( because your pain is referred to other parts of your >>abdomen )... >><P>** If your doctor suggests that you need to have a mental health >>evaluation... >><P>** If your doctor prescribes Tranquilizers... >><P> >><P>IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT ADHESIONS COULD BE THE CAUSE OF YOUR CHRONIC >>PAIN!!! In 1997 I had a Diagnostic Laparoscopy -- which PROVED that >>there was a VALID REASON for the severe chronic pain, which I had >endured. >>MASSIVE ADHESIONS HAD ATTACHED MY OMENTUM TO MY ABDOMINAL WALL!!! >><P>A DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY is the ONLY WAY that ADHESIONS can be diagnosed!! >><P>A DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY is the ONLY WAY that ENDOMETRIOSIS can be >>diagnosed!! >><P> </P></FONT></BODY></HTML> >>