>----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Murray" <mkmurray@cyberport.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Frustrated
> After having adhesion surgery last year, (pelvic adhesions)they have
> returned but out of all the Drs. I have gone to to take care of this
> problem, only one agrees with me that they are back. I keep having Drs.
> tell me that I have IBS but I KNOW my body and I know that they are
> back.(They cause IBS symptoms because the intestines are hooked onto
> pelvic wall) It is probably a little my fault because when I walk in to
> a Drs. office I get nervous and don't speak my mind. I always rehearse
> everything I am going to say and when the Dr. walks in I get nervous and
> can't tell them how things are. I think that Adhesion Disease is a very
> touchy issue. I would hope that the Drs. that are getting trained now
> are getting trained in adhesive disease so patients that do suffer from
> them won't have Drs. blow them off or tell them they have Irritable
> Bowel or other things.
> My Dr. sent me to a surgeon yesterday, and he asked me a few questions
> and said that it sounded like IBS not adhesions. Well, instead of
> standing up and saying YES it is adhesions because I have the same
> symptoms that I had before I had surgery for them, I just sat there and
> didn't say a word. Another day walking out of a Drs. office feeling like
> crying.
> On the positive side, I am still going to Pain Management and am due to
> go back next week. It seems to help with the pelvic pain but not the
> intestinal disturbances. Does anyone out there have any advise on what
> to take for intestinal disturbances, i.e. ("stomache churning all the
> time, gas, )
> Kel
>