regards Jackie B. SURREY. ENGLAND
>----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Wade <acbcsrt@kansas.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Knowing your limits
> Liz--I have left-side-itis, too. My problems stem from endometriosis. I
> had a hysterectomy for it in 1987, but I have learned since then that a
> hysterectomy does not get rid of endo. When I talked to Dr. Reich
recently
> in preparation for my upcoming surgery there, he commented that with my
> history of endo, that it's most common to have the pain on the left side.
I
> didn't ask why. I have the hip and back pain, too. It even seems that
all
> the way to my toes and up to my head feel different on the left than on
the
> right. I think that difference is caused by me tensing my left side in
> response to the pain. My heart goes out to all of you. Mary
>
> At 07:08 AM 12/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >Hi Mary
> >I am so sorry to hear that you are experiencing pain. I think you are
> >the only one besides me that has it on the left side, it seems like
> >every-one else has it on the right. TO answer you question, I also have
> >it on my left in the hip and lower back. It also can go up to under my
> >rib cage, this is somthing new in the last 6 months. I can only sit for
> >a short period of time which is making more difficult to work due to the
> >fack I am an electronic assembler.Why it has spread to these area's I am
> >not sure, in the past 14 years it maintained itself in the lower left
> >side of the abdomain. If any-one else has some info I would appreciate
> >it.
> > Sincerely
> > The Addhesion Warrior
> >
> >--
> >Hi
> >I to have alway's had it on my left side, I figured if I could just
remove
> the left side of me I would be fine, why I feel it more on one side verses
> the other, but think of it in a positive way, it could be are left and
right
> that we feel it, (lol), I know this is not funny but we have to try to
find
> some humor in all this or we will be just miserable, thank- god for this
> sight and all the wonderfull people that are here, God bless.
> > The Adhesion Warrior
> >
>