Sounds like I'm a surgery or two behind you! (Actually more, but it sounded funnier the other way.) Right now they have found something possibly going on with my gall bladder but since that isn't where my pain is, they'd have to really talk fast to get me to have it removed.
I, too, am having trouble getting the doctor I see get on board for pain mgmt. But I'm going Wednesday armed with the information I've gotten from this board (Thank you all a million times) and I hope to be successful with her. If not, I'll just have to find another one. The people here have given me the courage to perservere.....my husband, family and friends as well as myself deserve better!
Check out all the sites in the archives and keep at it. We shouldn't have to lie. Although, I have pulled the back pain thing before, because my doctor knows I've had back surgery before and she seems to understand that kind of pain!
Time is precious.....we need to spend it well!
Best wishes, kcmo rose
At Mon, 19 Mar 2001, TediBrHugs@aol.com wrote:
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>Dear Friends,
>I guess everyone get's these letters, so here I am writing and hoping for
>some comfort and help.
>It's been a long few weeks, few months, few years. The doctors have just
>figured out that I have adhesions, but there doesn't seem to be one single dr
>out there who believes they cause pain or that is willing to do adhesiolysis.
>So I continue to suffer. Things got so bad this past weekend I went to the
>ER and complained of a backache just to get something for the pain. Isn't
>that retarded? Why should I have to lie? Why can't they understand that this
>pain is real?
>I would love to get some adhesion pen pals. I am 38, have had a complete
>hysterectomy 10 years ago, an appendectomy, my gallbladder is gone, I've had
>ovarian cancer w/mets to the uterus and cervix which led to the hysterectomy,
>and in total 13 surgeries in 15 years.
>I am the mother of 5 children. 3 are mine and 2 are mine by marriage. We
>have 2 grandkids with my step son and 3 grandkids with my daughter and
>another grandchild by my next to youngest son.
>I have the adhesions, CFS and Fibro, they are all inter-related I am told.
>Please tell me I am not nuts that this does get better! I don't know how
>much of this run around I can take going from dr to dr to dr going through
>the same tests over and over again. I am afraid to eat because of bowel
>obstructions (been hospitalized once for that and that was enough). I have
>horrible backaches and migraines from the adhesions on my spine and now I
>just don't know what to do. My family is afraid to say or do anything
>because I am not the same woman I was. Adhesions are ruining my life.
>If anyone out there understands where I am coming from I would love to hear
>form you.
>Missy