At Wed, 29 Jan 2003, winged phantom wrote:
>
>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