>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Toni" <crazywey@aol.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 11:48 AM
>Subject: questions
>
>> Hi everyone...I have been silently reading everyone else's posts and
>> decided it was time to post my own. I am 42. I had 2 c-sections, 1
>> hysterectomy with left ovary removal, 1 small bowel obstruction, 1
>> gallbladder removal; all done abdominally not lap. It has been 15 years
>> since I have had surgery and over the last couple years it has been to
>> where it is affecting the quality of my life. A lot of times I can
>> ignore it, but not anymore. I also have been put through the wringer of
>> diagnostic testing. But noone has mentioned the possibility of
>> adhesions even though I look like a road map. I am having sharp pain in
>> my lower left quadrant that normally shoots down into the pelvic area
>> and is now traveling around my side and to my back? I also have frequent
>> UTI infections (at least 5/6 yearly). Daily I get this horrible
>> contracting feeling that reminds me so much of the beginning stages of
>> labor. I tell everyone it's like I'm giving birth to my bladder. I
>> have been trying to deal with this on my own, going to doctors then
>> giving up, then going to doctors. I am now seeing a surgeon who has run
>> the upper GI and ultrasound (normal) and now wants to run on Thursday
>> (again) a colonoscopy. Does this sound like adhestions, and if this
>> colonoscopy is normal, do I have the right as a patient to request a
>> lap? Thanks.
>>