Thanks for all the additional info, I'll surely be busy these coming days. :)
Regards, Carpe Diem
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Janine Love wrote:
>
>You can read up on Dr Kruschinski at: http://www.adhesions.de/ Helen is a listed supporter
of this site. Helen & Beverly Doucette (sorry if the spelling is wrong) are pretty much pioneers
in this field and they are filled with information about ARD. Of course, this is a personal decision, but the more informed you are the better.
>
>There are several reasons that your regular Gyno should not perform the adhesyolisis.
If you are going the route of surgery, the doctor needs to know the best way to treat your
adhesions, most don't as they don't encounter these surgeries too often. These specialist
(listed below) are pretty much pioneers in their field, and I think are very challenged at
trying to be the first one who has very long term success. So far I've heard about a lot
of short term successes from these doctors, but of course, only time will tell.
>
>Read Dr. K's site about the gasless procedure that he performs and why he performs it.
You will really have to read both sides of the story (some do extremely well by this
procedure - and some do not). Unfortunately there are no guarantees, but we all hope
that some (preferably all)will be lucky enough to have relief for good. Helen has
advocated to me a couple years ago to read, read read. Be informed, and of course
in the end, it will all be a personal decision. There are many people you can email
with as well, they can give you their stories.
>
>Best of luck and happy reading!
>
>Janine
>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: carpe diem
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: adhesions after C-section
>
> Hi Janine and thanks for your reaction. I'm in the Netherlands so
> Germany would be an option. Why are regular Gyneacologists not
> qualified to do the job? I'm new at this site and should still do some
> research. Where can I read up on Dr. Kruschinski? Also I didn't see
> Helen's name in the list of contributors to this forum.
> I'm ready for a next appointment with a my gyneacologist, but she's the
> one that outruled endo based on an echo (both internal and external) and
> I've learned in the meantime that that's not according to the book.
> We're going to move to another town soon and I think it would be better
> to wait and find a new doctor there.
>
> Anyway, thanks again,
>
> Carpe Diem
>
> At Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Janine Love wrote:
> >
>
>It sounds as if you might have some adhesion problems, a c-section will definitely do this, this is how I started with them I believe.
> >
>
>You should read up all that you can on your options regarding these adhesions. If you do decide to have something surgically done, it appears that your best bets right now are having the surgery done by Dr. Reich in PA & NY or going to Germany with Dr. Kruschinski, but you should definitely read up on both and make a very informed decision. Helen Dynda has also been a godsend to most everyone with adhesions, and a quick email to her, or viewing her posts should definitely benefit you.
> >
> >Best of luck and let us all know how you are doing.
> >
>te: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:32:25 -0500 (CDT)
Errors-To: postmaster@medispecialty.com Reply-To: sveglfamily@msn.com From: sveglfamily@msn.com (Kari) To: ADHESIONS@OBGYN.NET In-Reply-To: <200309110210.h8B2AmZ21756@dns.obgyn.net> X-Original-Sender: washdc3-ar8-4-62-076-091.washdc3.dsl-verizon.net @ 4.62.76.91 Subject: Re: ADHESION RECURRENCE
Hi, My name is Kari, and I am actually writing about my mom. She wants some support badly at this time. She had sugery due to diverticulosis in 1991 and has 5 attacks of ahesions on her bowels. All with sugery following to relieve her pain. Post-surgery on/or around 1994 she stayed in the hospital for 17 days. She again had it in 98, 02 and now 03. Last year she went in with the excruciating pain you described as an emergency and they admitted her immediately and went into surgery. Got released 5 days later and ended up back in for another 5 days. This year shes been having the pains on and off so she scheduled an appt with the surgeon and he decided "lets do it laproscopically" while you are well and see if we can do somethign about it. (since everytime has been an emergency so far). Well the surgery was supposed to be 2 hours long and out comes the surgeon 5 hours later he said the adhesions were so bad he couldnt see thru anything with just the camera and ended up opening her all the way up again. She is very frustrated at this point and would like to talk to others with this problem. She is wondering if a referrel out to say the mayo clinic would come up with something at this point and time. Her surgeon has already told her that her bowels are so thin and weak that he can never operate again unless it is a dire emergency. Well thanks for any respose we get. I will pass them on to her.