This may be a good article for some to print out and give to family or their physicians if they are having problems communicating their pain or problems.
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Crazy glue
By RANIT MISHORI, M.D.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/health/story/323416p-276464c.html <http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/health/story/323416p-276464chtml>
On most days, Maria de los Reyes, a Port Authority lawyer, feels the pain. "It's like someone's hand is in my guts, squeezing them to death," she says. It's been like this for 13 years now, ever since she had a hysterectomy, which went smoothly. But then a complication set in, one of the most common but least -talked about side effects of surgery for millions of American men and women - something doctors call "adhesions."