Re: please help!

From: LOU COOPER (louc829@gmail.com)
Tue Mar 10 09:31:08 2009


HI----FROM LOU; DID THE VAGINAL SHOW UP ADHESION'S? THIS WOULD BE INTERESTING IF SO LOU

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:10 PM, <krjmarketing@yahoo.com> wrote: > Try a vaginal ultrasound...that is the ONLY test that has done anything for me. I have had 8 surgeries for endo and adhesion pain. The ultrasound made three of those surgeries happen.
>
> Kelly
> ------Original Message------
> From: jetstampSender: adhesions@adhesions.org
> To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
> ReplyTo: adhesions@adhesions.org
> Subject: Re: please help!
> Sent: Mar 9, 2009 8:45 PM
>
> At Mon,  9 Mar 2009, vicki wrote:
>>
>>I have been in pain for 5 months.  It's ok in the morning when I get out
>>of bed, but when the day goes on, as I sit too long or bend too much the
>>aggravating pain returns in my "kidney" area and around to my lower left
>>side.  It can get VERY bad by the end of the day, but if I lay down it
>>gets better..  I have had a CT scan, xrays, urine tests, blood tests,
>>and colonoscopy.  I have been to 3 Dr's, and the emergency room 3 times
>>for the same left flank pain that wraps around to the lower left side.
>>They say It's probably adhesions but the ct scan and xrays don't support
>>that.  HELP!!! Can a ct scan miss this? I can relate to so many of the
>>emails on this forum.  Can anyone help me? I have a dr's apt tuesday
>>3/10 with a surgeon.  any advice? Thanks Vicki
>
> Vicki,
> One problem with 'allopathic medicine' (i.e., the doctors we normally go
> to) is that it is pretty much 'organ' based and mostly they are trained
> to look for things they can see under a microscope within a specific
> organ- mainly cancer.  Sure, they can put a cast on a broken arm and
> diagnose and prescribe medication for infections but their main focus is
> cancer or obvious issues with a particular organ.
>
> It's like looking at a forest.  An allopathic doctor is looking for a
> specific 'tree'- but is blind to the forest as a whole.  They are lousy
> at 'whole body' medicine, which something like adhesions should be
> categorized as being in.  Many of us have adhesions in multiple areas
> from the groin up to the chest, hence, they are not limited to one
> specific organ and do not fit neatly into any one specialty (i.e.
> gynecology, urology, gastroenterology, etc.) which is why patients like
> me have been bounced back and forth from one specilaist to another over
> the years, with each one telling me to 'go back to the other' and never
> accomplishing anything but a lighter wallet.
>
> So, this would explain in part why diagnostic tools like the fMRI are
> not widely available even to this day- (at least, as far as I know they
> aren't readily available) because they aren't needed for a typical
> allopathic doctors' line of work.  At least not until the problem of
> adhesions becomes more publicly recognized for causing the problems that
> they do.
>
> That's why I'm doing what I can with letter writing, as others here have
> suggested.  I'm going to do a new post about what I've been including in
> these letters.
>
> Joan
>
> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>


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