They diagnosed the adhesions in my hip from yet another lappa. I have had nearly thirty as you know, and for ten years the pain was contained on the left side. The right side only kicked in once there was nothing left on the left. The pulling pain with myself meant adhesions, I could even pin point the pain and cobwebbing, I am so intune with it all now. I have had a hysterectomy for Endometriosis and Adenmyosis at 26 years old. I'm now 30 and I can honestly say that with time and the Deptran, I feel like a new person.
I have had two bowel operations for adhesions and a major resection, so I truly feel for all the suffers out there, I know the desperation and sometimes hopelessness we feel towards the doctors and the search for the elusive cure. I know the drug I am taking has another name, Doxepin. That's all I know. Finding this drug enabled me to get off the morphene, the valium, the codeine, and everything else they gave me, then checked my arms for track marks.. ooooo... makes me mad.
The Deptran was very hard to get used to, and the results took two months to come to fruition. I moved from Melbourne back to my home town in Rockhampton Queensland for some help from my family. The side effects were extreme drowsiness, dry mouth and increased hunger. That's it. My doctor told me that they stumbled upon this medication by mistake. It is for depression suffers. Well, when your in pain, you are bound to feel depressed at some point too. Made sense to me. It scrambles your brain messages, and I get a little confused now and then. But compared to the pain filled life I was living, I'll take these tablets forever. But I haven't had to. Six months later and for the first time in fourteen years, I have no pain and have stopped taking the tablets, I only take them now when I start to feel the pain. They are not addictive and I can take them for the rest of my life if I need to.
It's not a cure, but it's the best thing I have found for myself. I need another adhesion removal around that hip area and my urether is stuck I can feel it, in June next year, but it's not an emergency for me, this is the first time ever I can say that. Usually my operations were always an emergency LOL cause it HURT !!
Professor Carl Wood has been my salvation in Melbourne. He was my specialist for eleven years, what a kind caring and definitely informative man. He has written books on all this. IF anyone is seeking a specialist down south, please refer them to him.
All in all, I feel blessed as I did feel as low as you could get when I was at the height of my pain, before finding this drug.
I hope that you have a kind considerate specialist, and make sure they check into the muscle around the hips, they really do get stuck to the hip, it sounds like the same pain I endure.
I hope this helps, and I hope I can help anyone in the future,
Trace
>----- Original Message -----
From: mark harrington
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: learn your limits
Dear Trace,
HI, thanks for the feed back, how did they diagnose adhesions in your hip? I don't know if I should go to my GP for tests or if to wait it out and see if the pain goes. It is a pulling pain when I stand up or sit for long periods of time. They work they just did inside was all on my left side, always has been, I've never really expericed pain on my right side. I thought with the removal of my ovaries the pain would be gone also from my left side, and it did for 3 weeks, but I don't know what to think now. I was just reading through old E-mails and you said you were on Deptran, is this the same as ditropan?. I am on Ditropan for my bladder, it blocks the signal to the brain from the nerve that makes your bladder contract, so I don't pee my self all the time, it seems to work to a certain degree, I don't have to go as much. Hope your feeling OK. Where abouts are in Australia? Love Helen G (Perth)
> ----- Original Message -----
From: niko (awesome)
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: learn your limits
Hey Helen ;-))
I do get alot of pain in my hips, and discovered this time last year that adhesions had formed around the muscle next to the hip. It reoccurs after being lysed but that is what I get that pain from ;-))
Hope this helps in anyway
Your aussie friend Trace
> ----- Original Message -----
From: mark harrington
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: learn your limits
Hi everyone,
This is Helen G (Australia), I totally agree that the more you do the worse the pain becomes. You have to know your limits, and while you may feel fine doing the gardening, vacum etc, I find I will suffer that night with bad pain. This has always been the case for me, even when I feel well and feel as if I could climb mountains. I am 6 weeks post op now and I have pain back where they removed my left ovary, and also pain in my left hip which I have never experienced before, but I refuse to stop doing the things that I enjoy e.g. gardening as I want to feel as if I have some kind of normality in my life. Has anyone experienced pain in their hips after surgery? or had adhesions causing pain in their hips?, I normaly only get pain in my lower pelvic area, and lower back but this hip pain has been around now for 2 weeks, and is quite painful when I stand up or stay seated for anything longer than 1/2 hour. thanks everyone
love Helen G .