>----- Original Message -----
From: "Flick Rahke" <flick1@earthlink.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 11:58 PM
Subject: are men o.k. here
> Hi everyone this is flick here. i noticed that everyone here seems to
> be a woman, It's o.k. to be a man here isn't it. I am a man. Thanks
> for the posts. Is it really possible to get adhesions from a
> laporoscopic gallbaldder surgery? I can't figure out what else could
> have been causing the inflammation and tightness and pain in my abdomen
> 1.5 years after the surgery. i do not have any bowel problems though. i
> did get addicted to xanax after the surgery when I got very worried when
> it did not heal. I had to go to a rehab 8 mos. ago and I still have
> withdrawal symptoms from the xanax on top of the abdominal pain. I feel
> like that gallbladder surgery ruined my life. I was a dancer and surfer
> and athlete before it and have not done anything since, so i am very
> depressed. I don't want to use any drugs, including antidepressants,
> because they give me major side effects. I am considering adhesion
> surgery when i feel better from the drug withdrawal, but I read some
> horror stories on the quilt. i have tried a little myorfascial release
> bodywork therapy, but doubt it can heal something as tough as adhesions.
> I wrote to that Dr. Reich and his associates in New York. Are there
> any good success stories of cured adhesions from this sort of
> laproscopic adhesion removal? I feel like a surgery has ruined my life,
> and I don't want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire, but if a
> good surgery would fix the bad one, I am not opposed to it necessarily
> when I am feeling better. Thanks Flick
>
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