Re: Adhesions and Pain Management
From: Pat (patnal10@bellsouth.net)
Sun Oct 29 13:30:57 2006
At Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Daniel J wrote:
>
>Some of you know my story, but its been a long year testing (CT scans,
>EGD's ERCP's, Ultrasounds, Hydrogen Tests, a test for Celia disease and
>others) and we are left finally with the adhesions that we thought were
>the problem all along. Seven years ago, when I had my ileostomy
>surgery, the doctors had me on the table removing the adhesions I had
>acquired from the surgery fifteen years before to remove my colon. The
>surgeon I have lately seen (but who did niether of the previous
>surgeries) sent me for a Barium X-Ray to see if the pain was caused by a
>blockage due to adhesions. He found nothing, as did the rest, but the
>pain is still there and absent a blockage, he will not perform a surgery
>for the adhesions because, of course, surgery will only produce further
>adhesions
Daniel, I have had about 14 surgeries in 6 years---2 of them lysis for
adhesions and one for a partial small bowel obstruction. I go to pain
management, because no dr. wants to touch me because of my past
history. I was referred to him by my surgeon and have been seeing him
for over 3 years, so my answer would be yes, you should be referred. The
pain meds do not take the pain away completely, but it is tolerable. I
found this site 6 years ago, but haven't come here in a while. I hope
that you find someone who is compassionate and accepts adhesions as a
true disease, because it is painful, especially when I bend, stretch and
even sitting because it pushes everything together---I'm very short-lol.
Best of luck.
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Pat