> To all my fellow ARD sufferers,
>
> I want to first of all thank you all for being there and sharing your
> experiences. It really helps to know that I am not the only one with
> this
> affliction.
> I am currently 40 years old and have had adhesions since I was 24. I
> hav> e
> been through a lot since then.
> I believe the cause was due to my first ob/gyn who let me go eight
> years
> with PID. He kept telling me that I did not have an infection that it
> was > a
> nasty discharge because I had my son at 16, and bad girls usually had to
> pay>
> for their mistakes. He also did the first laproscopic to determine the
> caus> e
> of the erratic and painful periods and told my mother that the adhesions
> (so>
> he knew even back then) would go away as soon as I found a good man to
> take
> care of me. (what a quack) when I kept having problems he told my
> mother
> again that I was just trying to get attention and that there was nothing
> medically wrong with me. That I must be just acting out from the sexual
> and>
> emotional abuse my father did when I was a child, and to seek a good
> mental
> hospital.
> So for years I suffered in silence, until my third husband just
> couldn't
> understand and started taking me to other doctors to find out that the
> damag> e
> had been done. The PID was cleared up and the surgeries began, we
> started
> taking the fertility pills only to find out, after having a blighted
> ovum
> that if I had gotten pregnant it would have killed me when the baby
> started
> ripping the curtain of adhesions. After 13 years and a complete
> hysterectom> y
> my husband no longer needed me and he filed for divorce.
> I thank god every day for my son who is now 23 for he understands and
> is
> very supportive. He has even gone so far as to "find" pain meds on the
> streets for me when the doctors refused to prescribe more.
> For years I actually started believing the doctors and was starting to
> think that it was all in my head. That maybe I was just a junkieâ¦.
>
> I feel quite lucky when I read some of your stories, (my god) I have
> only>
> had 7 surgeries in the past 15 years, and have only managed to miss a
> few
> weeks work through each year. After my doctor did the hysterectomy he
> told
> me he put some sort of jell in there so maybe to slow down the adhesions
> and>
> it worked for 6 years then I had to have an emergency appendectomy and now
> 1>
> ½ years later I am back in the doctor routine again. I thank god for
> t> he
> Internet and the ability to research and now for bumping into this
> website
> and all of your stories, it truly makes me know that I am not insane and
> there is really a problem out there.
> I keep reading about going to Germany for treatment. What makes the
> difference or what do they know that our doctors here can't learn? Can
> someone please shed some light on this?
> To all of you, thank you and if there is anything I can do or say PLEASE
> LET>
> ME KNOW.
>
> Sincerely,
> Mendy Louiso
>