At 06:28 PM 2/1/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear Members of this Board
>I discovered this site just this week in a desperate attempt to find out
>SOMETHING about adhesions. I figured I could not be the only one
>suffering. Boy, was I right. I have spent the day reading the postings
>to this board and am now both relieved not to be alone and still
>frustrated that there is no "cure". My story is similar to everyone I
>read - surgeries, endometriosis, more surgeries for complications with
>the final surgery climaxing with the acknowledgement that adhesions were
>now my final problem (no longer endometrosis since we did manage to get
>rid of that with a full hysterectomy). I have been fortunate in that my
>pain has been intermitten for the past two years and easy to overlooked
>by myself. It has only been in the last three months that it has become
>more and more constant and I had started on the same pilgrimage that
>many of you have endured for years. I.e., the doctors who run dozens of
>tests, everything is normal and we are left to "assume" the culprit is
>adhesions. The final act being that all the doctors get a "deer in
>headlights" look and mumble as they turn away.
>
>Although I recognize that there may be no "cure" I do wish to pursue
>alternative methods to at least relieve the pain and also find a
>specialist to partner with should complications develop. Which brings
>me to my question, "Can anyone tell me how to go about finding a
>specialist in my area?" I live in the St. Louis region and would like
>to find someone who knows more than the run-of-the-mill. Are there
>certain questions I need to focus on? Is there a magic word that will
>help me seperate the wheat from the shaft?
>
>I apologize for my long winded posting and understand if no one has an
>answer. Either way, I want to thank everyone for the sharing and
>comfort offered to strangers. May Peace find all of us in some way.
>
>--
>Robin M.
>