I loved your message...it even got me a little teary-eyed. I feel the same way about this board, no way, no how, would I have been able to overcome what I have since I found this board last December.
I am glad that you are fairly comfortable these days, I understand your fears, and wanting to understand the hows and whys, and think it's important for people like us to stay informed, and be prepared just in case.
Good night sweet Marianne,
Janet
> [Original Message]
> From: marianne bolding <ojowojo@yahoo.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> Date: 7/28/01 11:49:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Something to think about
>
> I was lucky, I didn't injure a bone...I just threw my
> back and neck out...and since I have minor scholiosis,
> I unfortunately always have back and neck pain. Lots
> of chiro sessions. It's just so forceful when you're
> lunged forward at a high speed impact with that
> seatbelt on your tummy. It sounds completely logical
> that pelvic trauma could occur this way. But, really
> I'm clinging at straws since there are many factors
> that can cause pelvic inflammation. I was kicked in
> the stomach years ago by an abusive partner...passed
> out. Could've been the cysts left untreated growing
> in the ovaries that caused inflammation...could even
> be years of smoking caused inflammation of the
> peritonitis. One only knows, that's why I still wish
> to follow-up wit GI. It still is all interesting
> information to provide the doctors with if chronic
> pelvic pain becomes an issue for me again. At this
> point...it's not anymore...just a tightening from
> navel to belly, I feel...and bowel irregularity still.
> Mentally, the affect never goes away...nor does the
> fears. This is my need for support. And I'm not one
> to abandon people because I feel a little better. I
> couldn't have done anything without the support here.
> When I felt the most lonely and confused about ARD, it
> was everyone here that gave me light to have
> knowledge...and with that knowledge I have a litttle
> hope. You are all my friends. Love, Marianne-
> --- Janet Karam <janetk7@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Dear Marianne,
> >
> > I have heard a case of a young girl recently whose
> > cause of abdominal
> > adhesions was a car wreck, in this case her ribs
> > were broken in the accident
> >
> > I work with alot of auto injury cases, and their
> > chronic pain acts very
> > ours,the trauma changes their muscles
> > physiologically, and it is very hard
> > for them to recover sometimes. Rather than abdominal
> > pain, they experience
> > chronic neck and back pain, migrane headaches, etc.
> > A different type of
> > adhesions can form in muscle tissue anywhere in the
> > body, these adhesions
> > also cause chronic and sometimes debilitating pain.
> >
> > Love,
> >
> > Janet
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: marianne bolding <ojowojo@yahoo.com>
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> > <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> > > Date: 7/28/01 10:23:38 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Something to think about
> > >
> > > Nancy, this is fascinating...I was in a bad car
> > wreck
> > > 1 1/2 years before I was diagnosed with adhesions.
> >
> > > Since I've never had surgeory it makes me wonder.
> > > Thanks, I'll save this one. Marianne
> > > --- "Nancy E. Hale" <nanny@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> > > > Hello girls and guys:
> > > >
> > > > Got this in an e-mail from Medscape today,
> > checked
> > > > it out and found it
> > > > really interesting in view of the fact that I
> > have
> > > > been involved in 4 MVA's
> > > > while wearing a seatbelt within the past 13
> > years -
> > > > only two of them
> > > > serious, but still something to think about:
> > > >
> > > > >CHRONIC INTERMITTENT INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
> > FROM A
> > > > SEAT BELT INJURY
> > > > >Intra-abdominal adhesions cause most mechanical
> > > > small bowel
> > > > >obstructions.
> > > > >South Med J 94(5):499-501, 2001
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >http://gastroenterology.medscape.com/40760.rhtml?srcmp=gas-072701
> > > > ><a
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >href="http://gastroenterology.medscape.com/40760.rhtml?srcmp=gas-072701">
> > > > >Read it Here</a>
> > > >
> > > > Think I'll print this out and take it to the GP
> > and
> > > > to the pain clinic - if
> > > > I live long enough to get to the PMU....
> > > >
> > > > Pain-free weekend to everyone.
> > > >
> > > > Nancy in NB
> > > >
> > > > ICQ #9683431
> > > >
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> >
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