why don't they take me seriously?
From: LauraKH (gotaminivan@ivillage.com)
Sat Dec 20 18:52:17 2003
I'm new here, looking for advice and support. I'm 27, and had a total
hysterectomy 3 1/2 months ago due to endometriosis/adenomyosis, and
adhesions. Days after surgery I was experiencing a pulling sensation,
and sometimes it hurts like he!!. Now, I'm in pain every day, a sharp
pulling pain, always in the exact same spots, and hoarding my vicodin
(which doesn't work anymore) because I'm on my last refill, and my dr
probably won't give me more, and she always tells me that there's
nothing they can do. Sometimes the pain makes me nauseous, and once i
passed out.
If adhesiolysis is laproscopically, doesn't that reduce the risk of
future adhesions? Why has no doc heard of adhesion barriers? Am I bound
to a life of chronic pain, with only a script for Naproxen (useless on
my adhesion pain, BTW) to make it through. THe only doc this site
brought up is 6 hours away. I've been to specialist after specialist
just to get the diagnosis of endometriosis (it's almost funny to think
of ER docs accusing me at 12 and 15 yrs of being a drug addict. ahem,
but I have to have drugs to be addicted to them! at that point, I was
told it's normal to vomit or pass out from pain every month!)
Thanks
Laura