I just read your post to Karla, and I think I'm living in your body, especially the right rib area, the vaccuming experience, and the difficulty driving any distance at all. You just explained me. Uncanny!
Wishing you all pain free moments, hours and days...
At Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Hchalm@aol.com wrote:
>
>Dearest Karla:
>
>Could you please elaborate or send me to the URL that has this information
>that I have highlighted in red. So many times I have told my husband that I
>feel as though I can feel everywhere they lysed inside of me and this is
>where I am feeling the pain, especially the rectal and vaginal pain where I
>feel after walking or sitting too long like I'm sitting on a poker and it is
>so painful that after our last trip to VA and we were stuck in traffic for
>three hours I was crying my eyes out and told my husband that I felt like I
>was going to give birth to a cow (I think it's called pelvic floor pressure).
>Ahhh, the guessing games that goes on in one's mind. The rib pain - nerve
>entrapment by adhesions, nerve damage and possible adhesions or just
>adhesions. See, when I am doing things I shouldn't be doing like say vacuum,
>(sorry but my maid quit - actually I haven't trained my husband or the
>children yet in the art of cleaning the house) I don't experience the pain
>while doing it, but the pain starts about 15 to 30 minutes later and
>esculates throughout the day depending upon how busy I have been. If I've
>been very busy I am usually (by that evening) laying in a ball in the bed
>with the heating pad crying my eyes out.
>
>When you speak of incision pain, you are speaking about the incisions from
>previous surgeries or incisions from the adhesiolysises (say lysis pain)? My
>pain came after my TA hysterectomy although I had been cut 3 prior times. I
>actually have no pain at the incision site from my TAH or the other 3
>surgeries, but just about everywhere else. So if you say incision pain this
>doesn't correlate to my pain, but lysis pain would make sense to me, since
>the surgeons spent close to two hours lysing adhesions from the vaginal cuff
>and rectum which is where I feel the pain and another two hours on all the
>other organs involved (almost all of them except for diaphragm and
>gallbladder). The right rib pain is another matter as they didn't do any
>lysing in that area as they didn't see any adhesions, but I awoke with
>screaming pain in that area and it has never left.
>
>If you can, please elaborate regarding the incision pain? Thank you. All my
>love,
>
>Hell-yun
>
-- csheedy