I live in Virginia. I have chronic fibromyalgia and live in constant pain. I am 48 years old. In the past 6 months, I have been having problems with severe stomach bloating, upper and lower abdomen, mainly upper. I was wondering if this is a part of my Fibromyalgia. My R.A. Doctor will not comment on this subject hardly at all. I am also in the pre-menapause stage. In the past 2 years, I have gained weight and I am not an over eater. I take Ultram around the clock for my pain and on bad days, I have to add Darvocet along with the Ultram. Thanks for listening! Yvonne
>>At Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Odette wrote:
Hi,
>>>I am new here. I'm 52 years old and have had problems with endo and
>>>adhesions since 1988. I was first diagnosed with endo in 1989 through
>>>laparoscopy. I had an hysterectomy and one of my ovary plus adhesions
>>>removed,in 1992. As the pain came back, the gyn. removed the other
>>>ovary as well as adhesions in 1994. Of course, the pain came back and
>>>the gyn. removed adhesions which were close to my colon in 1996. In
>>>1999, i went back to my gyn. complaining of more pain lus a lot of
>>>constipation. He then told me that as it probably was touching my
>>>bowel, he didn't want to operate on me anymore and that i should see a
>>>gastro. The latter referred me to a surgeon saying that as the problem
>>>was outside of the bowel, this was that kind of surgeon it took. Anyway,
>>>i went to see the surgeon who had a ct scan of the abdomen done as well
>>>as an anema barium which was very painful. The only thing that was seen
>>>by the scan was what looked like a gallbladder stone. My family doctor
>>>had a ultrasound done buy nothing was seen. So i wonder if it was not
>>>an adhesion that was seen......