What you're describing sounds extreme enough to warrant surgery to clean things up. Yes, I know there's a danger of it coming back, but when the adhesions are strangling your insides, you have to get rid of them.
Hugs to you. I'm thinking of you.
Mary-Ann
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From: Bulldoggraphics@aol.com
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:54 PM
Subject: physicians
> Does anyone have any references or any knowledge of any doctors in the
> milwaukee area who have heard of adhesions and believes they are
real??????
> I sometimes feel my only alternative is that i will die - as the other
> physicians i have visited - dont believe me. I live with bowel
obstrucitons
> and cant eat or pass anything. i dont know what to do or who to try. it
has
> been a 12 year struggle. the major struggle is trying to talk a physician
in
> to doing a laparoscopic surgery to appease me.. and if they see adhesions
to
> please laser them. This takes months to talk a doctor into this. by this
> time.. i have lost my job... lost my insurance... lost patches of hair..
> teeth break off... its an awful situation.
> thank you
>