Most medical doctors, etc. did NOT receive the comprehensive training (in medical school) that is required in the appropriate management of chronic pain. As a result, they have NOT been trained properly to treat chronic pain. The treatment of of a person, who suffers from chronic pain, requires much more of doctors' time - time that doctors DO NOT have.
When doctors begin to become frustrated in their attempts to help a person in chronic pain, this may explain why so many doctors tell their patients that adhesions do NOT cause pain! Their frustration may also explain why so many doctors dismiss their chronic pain patients by telling them: "It's ALL in your head"..."You're going to have to try to live with your pain"...etc. Eventually, chronic pain patients realize they are not being helped - and begin to search for a doctor, who will listen to them and who will hopefully help them. When this happens, doctors have succeeded in dismissing their frustrating patients.
When I requested all of my medical and operative reports in 1996 (26 years after the laparotomy I had in 1970), I learned for the very first time that I had been labeled by Mayo Clinic doctors - as being a hypochondriac, having psychoneurosis and in need of an evaluation at a Mental Health Clinic. I had been evaluated 5 times between 1971 and 1992 at the Mayo Clinic; and since all of my diagnostic tests were negative or normal, the Mayo doctors assumed I was mentally ill. NOT SO!! A diagnostic laparoscopy on August 1, 1997 proved that massive adhesions were the real cause of the chronic pain I had been forced to endure without pain medication!!
There is ONLY ONE diagnostic test for ARD and/or endometriosis - a diagnostic laparoscopy!!
It was my constant search for information that eventually led to the diagnostic laparoscopy that I had in 1997; and for the very first time, I was given the correct diagnosis - a diagnosis I could believe...massive adhesions adhesions attaching my omentum to my abdominal wall!! Since 1997 I have been determined to learn as much as I can about this unfair, painful disorder, adhesion related disorder (ARD).
Consider making a decision to learn as much as you can about adhesion related disorder - and everything related to ARD. I can provide you with some of the best websites of adhesion-related information. All you have to do is request this information. My email address is above.
I hope I have been able to encourage all of you to " TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH" !! Only YOU can make this decision!!
Love, Helen D.