Re: Surgery--Would you do it again? (POLL)

From: Lou (omureprum@yahoo.com)
Mon Feb 23 18:34:42 2009


At Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Mark Thompson wrote: >
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>Doctors carefully weigh the risks versus the rewards. I've seen three
>surgeons who all said "I have no doubt that you have adhesions.
>However, I don't like to do surgery unless..." [and here the answers
>of the three surgeons differed.] The reason the three believed I had
>adhesions was because of statistical probabilities. However, doctors
>can't put a statistic in a patient file as proof.
>
>The decision to do surgery varies from doctor to doctor. Standards
>don't yet exist. Tests for adhesions, until recently, were
>unavailable. (Search archives for information about fMRI) There was,
>and some say still is, no measuring stick.
>
>Yours,
>
>Mark in Seattle
>
>Tracy S wrote:
>> Every Dr that I talked to refuses to even consider doing surgery to
>> remove the adhesions, even though they have caused 4 partial bowel
>> obstructions in less then 18 months. They refuse to do any surgery
>> inless there is a complete obstruction. Is this the norm? Also I'm
>> wondering those that have had obstructions, have they been visible on
>> regular Xrays? All 4 obstructions I've had did not show up on a
>> regular Xray but were visible on CAT....I'm just wondering if others
>> have had this happen as well.
>> I had another trip to the ER yesterday ....throwing up, terrible pain
>> and my tummy so bloated you would have thought I was pregnant! This
>> time they only did a regular Xray and since it didn't show a
>> obstruction sent me on my way even though I explained I've never had
>> an obstruction show up on an Xray...
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 2/22/09, Kim /<kkajark@aol.com>/* wrote:
>>
>> From: Kim <kkajark@aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: Surgery--Would you do it again? (POLL)
>> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
>> Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 11:22 PM
>>
>> The odd thing is I am going to have surgery for the 10th time an am so
>> looking forward to it because I to agree that a even a little relief is
>> better than non.
>>
>> At Mon, 23 Feb 2009, carynlruzich@comcast.net wrote:
>> >
>> >Yes! Even short lived relief is worth it to me.
>> >
>> >Caryn R
>> >
>

>>>> >>----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Katie" <katie_scarlett67@hotmail.com>
>> >To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
>> <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net>
>> >Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 10:43:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
>> Eastern
>> >Subject: Surgery--Would you do it again? (POLL)
>> >
>> >For those that have had surgery strictly for removing the adhesions ...
>> >would you do it again?
>> >
>> >Your answers will not influence the fact that I am about to have surgery
>> >for mine. I'm just curious.
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Katie
>> >
>> >tm
>> >htm
>>
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Mark, Is this the IAS archives on information about fMRI, if so which month is it in. Thanks Lou.


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