Re: I'm scared again

From: Jen (jrtgirlca@yahoo.ca)
Sun Apr 13 10:23:54 2003


Hi Dawn, Thank you so much for your reply. (and good advice which fully intend to heed)

It helps to talk to others and get reassurance. I will keep reading this forum and sending good thoughts to all the people here. Thanks again, Jen

At Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Dawn wrote: >
>Dear Jen,
>You don't ever have to down play you pain here...hey, it hurts really
>bad.
>Odds are once an you're an adhesion grower you will get them back again
>with each surgery...you should secure you last operative report if you
>have not done so already, give it a read and see how they encountered
>adhesions and where. Have they done an ultrasound on yer cyst growing
>ovary? Ask.
>I am sorry you must endure this but hold your head up and speak politely
>but with an educated background that you can gleen from this site.
>I am not sure how the Canadian healthcare system works but in the site
>we have a support group section (should be on the site map) and there
>are several woman to contact in Canada that could help guide you through
>the system and may have knowledge of doctors you can travel to that are
>sympathetic to an ARD sufferers plight. Perhap one even lives close by.
>We choose doctors and they work for us...it works best if there is an
>air of honesty and mutual respect between the two parties. It works
>even better if you keep up with and educate ourselves on all thats going
>on with ARD. We give the docs a bad rap here alot and I truely believe
>that we frustrate them just as much as they can frustrate us. Being a
>well spoken, non confrontational and educated perticipant helps the
>listening process go much better...you do not have to look up to docs as
>if they were god...tho some seem to command this...ah who needs that...
>What you want is a proffesional relationship and YOU will always have
>the final say over what happen to your body. You probably do not have
>cancer and a simple blood test can see if your white blood count is
>elevated enough to cause that kind of worry.
>Take care Jen, We are here for you. Let us know how you are doing.
>Please feel free to email me if I can be of further assistance.
>Love,
>Dawn
>>Hi everyone,
>>I haven't posted for a while but I have been reading the forum for about
>>a year or so now.
>>Anyway, I guess I just wanted to get some reassurance because I'm scared
>>right now.
>>
>>Again I am experiencing pain! It's not as excruciating as alot of the
>>posts I have read here but it has been fairly consistent for about 3-4
>>weeks now.
>>
>>I have pain in my ovary area (had cyst removed in 1980, adhesions from
>>there caused bowel obstruction in 2000, had to have emergency surgery)
>>
>>I am also getting a pain in my waist? and sometimes in my back and also
>>in my upper stomache near my surgery scar.
>>
>>Last year I had a series of tests, including a cat scan and everything
>>came back negative. (thank god)
>>But now the pain is starting AGAIN.
>>
>>I'm sure many of you go through the same thing where you start to think
>>you have something terrible like cancer. I try to think logically and
>>tell myself,
>>"now Jen if you had somethink that terrible, you would be WAY sicker!"
>>I'm not losing weight, have a good appetite etc......
>>It's hard though to maintain positive thinking.
>>My doctor and urologist both told me last year that it's not adhesions
>>because I do have the right kind of pain.
>>
>>After reading so many posts here I have learned that adhesions can cause
>>all kind of different things for so many people.
>>
>>I have my regular pap and checkup scheduled for this month so we'll see
>>what happens then.
>>
>>Anyway, thanks for letting me bend a few ears. Sometimes I almost
>>paralyze myself with fear and then I get really depressed.
>>I hate to keep talking to my husband about it because it takes a toll on
>>him too.
>>
>>Thanks everyone and I hope everyone is feeling better and thank you for
>>providing so much valuable information.
>>Sincerely,
>>Jen G.
>>Ontario, Canada
>
>--
>I'm no doctor, just a fellow sufferer like you but I hope you consider me a new friend.
>


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