To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: seprafilm
HELP!!! I RECENTLY FOUND OUT ABOUT SEPRAFILM. I AM
> A BACK SURGERY PATIENT. LONG STORY..BEGAN 2000. I
> AM IN TREMENDOUS PAIN CONSTANTLY AND WONDER IF THIS
> PROCEDURE WOULD HELP ME. ARE THERE ANY DRS. OUT THERE
> THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS PROCEDURE FOR BACK PATIENTS?
> PLEASE FEEL FREE TO RESPOND TO EMAIL ADDRESS. I AM DESPERATE
> TO BE FREE OF PAIN AGAIN SO I MAY POSSIBLY RETURN TO WORK
> SOMEDAY. THANK YOU.
>----- Original Message -----
From: webaholic@aol.com
> At Thu, 4 Nov 1999, toni welsh wrote:
> >
> >Has there been anyone here that the drs used seprafilm? I know the gyn
> >used interceed on my surgeries, and he said that he felt it worked
> >better!
> >
> >The general surgeon that I talked to, but he did one adhesion at a time,
> >and he kept opening you up every 6 months to do one, after a NG test no
> >one EVER heard of, he uses seprafilm. But the trouble with him, is mine
> >are so extensive to do one at a time. he has a patient I saw her in his
> >office last year, and he did 25 laparotomies on her! And she looked like
> >it, and she was AOT younger than I am my husband even feaked out. My
> >gyn said there is no reason to do ONE at a tme, would not even work in
> >my case cause of the density and thickness. But the general he would
> >work with could use seprafilm, but again like Interceed, there is not a
> >quarantee. Like the pain center nrse said uesterday, they are going to
> >have to find SOMETHING that WILL release these adhesions for people like
> >us !
> >
> >Toni
>
> >
>