I am so sorry. I know how hard this is. i am young also 28. I have three children a husband and school also. I feel like i can't do it at times also but i make myself. I will not let this stupid disease ruin my life. I'm in the process of finding answers. I will let you know. Please don't give up on your dreams, maybe just take one oline class, you deserve a good life. I hope you have found a good dr by now. Where do you live? I have a good dr in Lake Havasu City arizona. email me if you would like his number. Good luck to you. I hope you get better! I'm looking into mysofacial release therapy massage. and also a medicine caled serrapeptase. I will let you know what i find out. Stay strong. and continue to search for doctors and answers. Also fresh ginger will help with nausea. you buy it in produce section peel it and eat raw if you can if not chop or grade up like garlic add to food, tea, or make a simple surup. one cup water one cup sugar and ginger and boil until it's sugar is disolved. then take a table spoon or add to any food or beverage. Good luck again and i hope you find some relief soon Jenn
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, IAS Admin (Tracy) <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> wrote: From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of Ginger Clark Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:51 AM To: adhesions-request@adhesions.org Subject: Re: Abdominal adhesions at age 23
I am so sorry that you are suffering like many of us! I have suffered with
several bowel obstructions, removed my large intestine and liased adhesion
procedure, this year. Sad to say, they are back again! I receive trigger
point injections to help with the adhesion pain. Hang on and may God
give you the peace of mind to deal with the daily pain! G. Clark
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:11:07 -0500
> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org
> To: adhesions@mail.obgyn.net
> Subject: Abdominal adhesions at age 23
>
> Sender: scubagirl87@msn.com (Kerri)
> Subject: Abdominal adhesions at age 23
>
> I am feeling very disheartened and decided that maybe typing it out will
> help a little. I have been dealing with adhesions for almost two years
> now... It all started during my senior year of college when I was
> almost about to graduate with my B.S. in dental hygiene. I had an
> emergency appendectomy that went undetected for some time in the ER (Dr.
> couldn't find it on the ultrasound, missed it on the CT, and I waited
> for 9 hours before going to the ER because I wanted to take one of my
> finals and get it over with: overachiever and opposite of hypochondriac-
> yes). My appendix was down lower and more towards my back than most
> people's and the surgeon, although he did it laparscopically, had a
> difficult time getting it out. It had started to rupture, was
> gangrenous, and all the inflammatory fluid had caused my uterus to be
> inflamed as well.
>
> Well, a couple of months later, when I was finally starting to feel back
> to normal, I kept waking up in the night feeling like my bladder was
> full, even though it wasn't. Then a month after that started, I ended
> up in the ER with severe abdominal and lower back pain.
> Long story short, I spent months and months trying to convince people I
> wasn't nuts. I was told by most people that the ER wasn't the place for
> me, that I was making it up, or was too traumatized by my appendectomy.
> Being the farthest thing from a hypochondriac, this was all very
> frustrating. Finally I found someone who believed that i was in pain
> but not that I had adhesions (because I didn't have a bowel obstruction,
> they said it was impossible), and I had a exploratory lap surgery
> again... sure enough, they found exactly what I knew I had had-
> adhesions... right where my appendix had been. I had been researching
> and whatnot for months and thought that that was what it would be, but
> no one would believe me. They lysed the adhesions but warned me they
> could very well come back. Sure enough, i'm back to where I was last
> year. I was going to start school to go back and take the pre-reqs for
> medicine, but I can no longer exercise, lift, scuba dive, or even sit in
> small cars very well. I'm nauseated all the time, had to drop out of
> school after the first few weeks because walking to class was killing
> me. I've been in the ER so many times, I'm fed up. I'm exhausted cause
> I can't sleep through the night because every time i lay down, it feels
> like something is pushing on my bladder. I have always been active, and
> at the age of 23, I don't want to look forward to the rest of my life
> being like this. i'm on the bathroom floor more than anything because
> the pain gets so bad, i can't stop throwing up. I really despise this
> and I want to believe that there is some hope. i have so much I want to
> do with my life and I want to be able to be active and pursue my dreams
> again. Sigh, well, I wanted to vent apparently. :)
>