Hi There Judy...i will tell you my experience with the last surgery i
had for adhesions...I had my adhesion surgery laproscopic (plus a 4 inch
bikini line incision) On Monday before last Thanksgiving..last year..and
on Thursday morning i was up and cooking a feast for about 20 people..i
felt great after being in horrible pain for a year..following my
TAH..Oct 12 2000...and i felt great for about 4 or 5 weeks and then the
pain started gradually coming back ..and it got worse and worse and
worse with each passing week...because the adhesions came back..you
see..because adhesions start forming right away after surgery..and
continue to form for a week or so..and then after that they get harder
and brittle..and start pulling your organs in directions they should not
be pulling in...and today i am in constant horrible pain again...the
only relief i get is from..ongoing opoid pain control.
The sad part is Judy..that i had an adhesion barrier..and my Dr filled
me up with Ringers Lactate as well..to try and prevent the return of the
adhesions..but that DID NOT work..and here i am now in worse pain than i
was in before that last surgery Nov 19 2001....But there is hope..i am
planning on going to Germany to have surgery..and CONFLUENT SPRAY
GEL..THE ONLY adhesion barrier that Drs are having good success
with...This spray gel is not approved yet in the USA tho..So many of us
are going to Germany and also to Australia...for surgery and the spray
gel..so these darned adhesions dont come back again..Some people on this
board Judy have had..10-15-even 20 surgerys for adhesions..all to have
them return again right away..and often times much much worse..So i wont
be having any more surgerys until i can have surgery with Confluent
Spray Gel..
Hugs and Love Tish.
P.S. If i can help you in anyway Judy please feel free to email me at
CookieTish@aol.com or just right me back here..