Re: SprayShield - Approval Status, Clinical Trials, Reasons for

From: Shawn Graham (anchor0charolais@2009@hotmail.com)
Sat Jul 21 22:55:21 2012


I am a 50 year old female, have had 4 lap. surgerys & a total abdominal hysterectomy to release adhesions & stop internal bleeding. Each time the adhesions grew back faster & got worse. They are now on my tailbone attached to my spine, around my lungs & all through my bowels. Have went from a very healthy, active lady helping family farm with cattle to not being able to hardly walk. Went from 120 pounds to 90 pounds in the last year and my family Dr. does not recommend further surgerys as the adhesions keep coming back. She is hoping that they eventually twist themselves off. Take narcotic drugs which don`t help very much & constipated me which causes more pain, live on laxatives so I can eat. I have tried accuppunture, homopathic medicine, & now rely on a chiropractor three hours from home to massage my abdominal area & rectally remove adhesions from tailbone. We have spent every dime we could to relieve my body of this painful conditions. Please consider me for your clinical trials. Thank you for your time & attention. Shawn Graham I feel like a unfunctional burden to my husband & 13 year old son.

At Thu, 31 May 2012, IAS Admin wrote: >
>Finally an answer- Annie's message about SprayShield (see editorial note
>afterwards about SprayShield status)
>
>(Annie has asked us to post the following message:)
>
>Had adhesiolysis done with Dr. Jens Pagels in 2010. There was an initial
>adhesiolysis done with Sprayshield, and Covidien the pharmaceutical maker
>was present. Four weeks later a second look was done and there was no
>indication of any adhesions, Covidien was also present. Prior to this
>adhesiolysis, I had an operation done in the U.S. with no barriers, and an
>unnecessary resection also done, because the sigmoid was kinked with
>adhesions, and I had difficulty defecating.
>
>Had I gone to Germany originally, none of this would have happened. The
>adhesions would have been removed and Sprayshield applied. It would appear
>that two years later I still have no internal adhesions, because after a
>colonoscopy, the GI MD. stated that the colon behaved as a normal colon,
not >one that was adhered in any way.
>
>Surgery is cheaper in Germany, but your insurance may not pay. I can
>substantiate that Dr. Jens Pagels is the ONLY surgeon I would use.
>Sprayshield is not available here. Covidien has chosen to market it only in
>Europe. It is very easy to have surgery done by Dr. Pagels. St. Joseph
>Moers, where he is chief of gynecology is not far from Dusseldorf, and I am
>quite sure he would even arrange for transportation to and from the
airport. >I had a ruptured teratoma (dermoid cyst) in 1965, but was unable to get the
>colon freed up totally If you want more information these are the ways you
>can reach Dr. Pagels, of course, email is the most easiest way:


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