>----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: IM MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> As I read through all of these posts and see how many Dr.'s
> out there are not listening to us it makes me very very angry.
> I too, am going through this. I sat not with my Dr. but with his
> physicians assistant yesterday and although she was empathetic,
> she made it crystal clear she did not believe this was adhesions.
> Even after going through all my past history with abdominal
> hysterectomy,
> galbladder surgery, and many lap surgery's and exploratory's.
>
> We know our bodies better than they do. Here they are making tons of
> money
> and we have to diagnose ourselves. After she started to tell me about
> more
> meds, pain killers, and the like, I finally got down to brass tacks. She
> explained I had no obstructions
> to speak of and she could not understand why. I explained,
> embarassing as it might seem, I told her about Saturday when my new
> husband and I got frisky and I cried for three hours afterwards because
> of
> the pain. I had to explain to her why her perception of my illness was
> adhesions, and not some random phsyco act. She asked me when I had
> my other cut downs? Excuse me, DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO MY RECORDS!!?!?!?
>
> She said normally adhesions will block the intestens. So I just asked
> her,
> If I have sex with my husband and
> tear one of the adhesions, would it not swell and bleed, just like any
> other
> injury to ones body? Could that not cause the pain and vomiting? She
> just
> closed her book and said she was going to speak with the Dr. about
> sending me
> to a surgeon. People, it is time to fight. I have been through so many
> non
> required tests in the last month to last me a lifetime. She is going to
> call
> ext Monday to let me know what he says. Ill tell you this, there will
> be
> an uprising in the city of Tulsa, OK if they send me through one more
> test.
> It seems to me if they would have just done the lap like I asked 2
> months
> ago, we would be done and there would not be all this money going out.
> And if
> it turns out to be adhesions and I have suffered even these last two
> months
> because the chose not to hear, I am going to be very dissapointed in
> the medical profession.
>
> Thanks for letting me get that off my chest!!
> Whewww I feel better.
>
> Love you all and God Bless
> Robin L
>