Re: So sad. So discouraged.
From: Jenny (kummer_jennifer1@hotmail.com)
Tue Feb 3 20:44:16 2009
Katie...please believe...there is ALWAYS hope. Pray. Try everything. I
was just on the couch back in October, thinking, OK, this is how life
will be forever. Constant pain - not able to eat.. without throwing
up...every movement was excruciating. Then this happened. (see my
story below) I can't exactly explain why or how it worked -- except that
I am still out of pain. I believe it was a gift from God. I can't
explain it otherwise. But, don't give up hope!!!!!
I just wanted to send a quick message to all. I have been suffering for
about 7 years with major abdominal pain. It all started (I will make it
a quick overview, as I have shared my story before!! and I don't want to
bore people.) So, it started with my inability to get pregnant - leading
to surgeries for ovarian cysts (complex) and stage 4 Endo -- leading to
major adhesions. ALWAYS after just a few days or a couple of weeks,
having the pain start up again and again. I thought I had lost all hope
-- I thought I was just going to live in pain for the rest of my life,
so the question was how will I continue?? I started seeing (as a last
hope) Dr's at Rush hospital here in IL. If you want specifics, please
feel free to email me. Anyway, I ended up at the pain clinic, they
reviewed a CT scan I had recently and noticed some hernia's around the
area I had been cut into so many times before. They referred me to a
General surgeon, whose specialty was hernias and adhesions. He repaired
the hernia with mesh and took down more adhesions. Needless to say the
recovery was horrific, I had never experienced pain like this after
surgery-- but to my surprise as the pain from surgery lessened, there
was NO other pain. I have none of my "typical" adhesions pain at all!!
I have been completely pain-free since November, which I know is not
that long, but it is the longest I have EVER been without pain in
years!!!!!! So, I am not exactly sure what happened, but if anyone out
there is suffering in pain AND has a hernia, check into it-- I had mine
for about 3 or 4 years (one) and then a few more popped up.... It may
help your pain. God bless to all!
Just wanted to share, what I hope is a success story of R E L I E F !!!
Please feel free to contact me whenever! Fight the good fight!
--
Jenny
kummer_jennifer1@hotmail.com
At Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Katie wrote:
>
>I just spent the last 2 hours scouring the web for any hope, even in the
>smallest amount, that I will ever be free of these adhesions. I have
>found nothing but sadness, defeat, pain, horror and even death.
>
>I am thinking of returning to Dr. Redan and finally submitting to the
>surgery I have been putting off for the last 7 months to get rid of
>these adhesions, as I am in so much pain. I just want so badly to find
>someone with a success story to tell but I can find nothing.
>
>Whatever happened to Karen Carter from the ARD quilt? Does anyone know?
>She was so hopeful right up until 2005 and then was doing terrible and
>never posted again. She thought she was a success and then had numerous
>surgeries after that.
>
>I'm just so sad right now.
>
>--
>Katie
>