Hi, I'm new here, and so is my huge belly!

From: winged phantom (winged_phantom8@hotmail.com)
Wed Jan 29 09:07:26 2003


Hi All, I posted a few days ago, but my message got lost, so I'll try the short version. lol

All I've done the past year is go to doctors! It started out with burning indigestion for a few weeks, and then I got severe esophageal spasms. It took 8 months for my "old" GI guy to diagnose "pathologic GERD." I was also diagnosed with sleep apnea.

I've been complaining of "bloating" for several years and have had several work-ups for ovarian cancer, since I've had all those symptoms for years (come to think of it, who in mid-life doesn't?). To make a long story short, I had a laparoscopy/hysteroscopy/D&C at the beginning of January, and (SUPRISE!) I'm full of adhesions! I have never had abdominal surgery, and I cannot remember when I've ever had symptoms of a severe infection.

At Thanksgiving, I finally got the bright idea of measuring my girth (I no longer have a waist), and I gained 4 inches around in less than a week. I had noticed around September that I was not able to get into some of my clothes, and right now I can only wear two pairs of slacks. Right now I'm 12 inches bigger around than I was a year ago! I definitely look pregnant and am in constant pain, especially when sitting at the computer (drat!).

I also have a bad neck and have recently been getting epidural injections for that. I thought for the past decade that I had fibromyalgia, but here it might just have been my slowly deteriorating neck (I had a microdiskectomy in 1989). Today I'm going to see about the prickly feelings I've developed in my legs and feet.

Anyway, in a couple of weeks, I'm due to have "The Works" out, with the gyne/onc doing the surgery. He will use Seprafilm. That's ok by me, if it can give me some respite from pain; I had just gone through menopause, so I don't need those parts, and the adhesions all stem from them. I'm hoping pathology can give me a clue as to why they are there. But now I'm reading that I may be doomed to a life with these things, until they come up with better solutions (or dissolutions? Sorry, 'scuse the pun) to the problems.

Say, where in Germany is Dr. K located? Does anyone have any suggestions for me? It's so nice to find your board; but whoever would have thunk that people spend all their careers working with these things? I'm certainly glad they're there! Thanks for your help... wr


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