At Fri, 6 Apr 2012, IAS Admin wrote:
> >From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of >kelly murray >Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 11:24 PM >To: adhesions-request@adhesions.org >Subject: Re: Adhesions.... finally an answer > > I have had surgeries in the states and out of the country with no luck. I >don't think you can get rid of them, pain management is the choice right >now. > >Kelly > >> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:02:54 -0500 >> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org >> To: adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com >> Subject: Adhesions.... finally an answer >> >> Sender: andrea.eppingstall@gmail.com (Andrea - Australia) >> Subject: Adhesions.... finally an answer >> >> Hi all >> >> Just stumbled across this site, searching for ways to stop my adhesions >> growing back >> (my naturopath swears by Vit E capsules and Zinc). >> >> My story: >> >> - When I was 22 (1988) I was admitted to hospital with suspected >> appendicitis. >> After lots and lots of investigations whilst I was in acute pain, they >> decided to take my appendix out and have a look around. >> They found a cyst on my ovary, burst it, and took the appendix out. >> >> - About a year after this I started to develop 'bowel urgency' which was >> then to be diagnosed as IBS (via barium enema -yuk, and then a >colonscopy). >> The urgency to use my bowels (due to diarrhoea and pain), gave me huge >> anxieties and panic disorder... My GP who looked at the barium enema
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>> said there was a piece of my bowel that looked like it had lost its >> spasicity (???? adhesions is my thoughts now ?????) >> >> I went to doctors on numerous occasions with my complaints, but were >always >> fobbed off that it was in my head.. it was IBS.. deal with it. >> IBS is the diagnosis they give once they have ruled out every other >> possibility. >> >> I ended up having a laparoscopy about a year or so later and found that I >> had cysts all over my ovaries, which they 'golf balled', which I think >meant >> to laser each one. They told me at this stage they were looking for a new >> thing called endo, but I didn't have it. >> >> - About seven years later (1996) I get diagnosed with panic disorder and >> start taking anti depressants, which alleviate (but not fix) the bowel >> condition. >> >> - 1999 I fall pregnant by accident (even though they told me I would have >> problems falling pregnant) and decide to keep the baby. Apart from the >baby >> having a SUA (single umbilical artery), all was well until labour. Labour >> was intense from the moment it started. After a c-section for not >> progressing, they told me it was probably because baby was posterior... >> maybe this was adhesions too!!! >> >> Meanwhile bowel still plays up... anxiety and depression aren't great.. >> continued lower back pain (for as long as I can remember, not sure when >> exactly it started). >>