I saw the surgeon today. I was afraid he would tell me that my pain was
from diverticulosis or that adhesions don't cause pain (How many times
have I heard that?). But after spending an hour with me, he said
adhesions were the source of my pain. He was sure of it. I couldn't
believe my ears. Somebody who believes me. He also said Dr's hate
patients with adhesions because they are not rewarding patients. Dr's
like patients who they can fix and say they healed them and never see
them again. They don't like patients they 'fix' only to have them back
in the office in 6 months complaining of the same symptoms all over
again. So a lot of dr's just push us off to the side because they don't
want to deal with us. He doesn't want to deal with it either but he
will if he has to. (At least he is honest). He also said they can do
only so many laparoscopy's before thr recurring adhesions get so dense
that they have to resort to laparotomy's. And every time they go in it
increases the chance for a bowel obstruction. He is sending me to a
pain management clinic first to see if they can help. He said there is
a Dr. on staff at the hospital with chronic adhesions that the pain
clinic has been able to help. I just hope someone can help soon. Today
was another bad day. My appointment at the pain clinic isn't till next
Friday. I hope I can make it that long. It is to the point that it
hurts when I walk (the jiggling from walking hurts, especially going
downstairs), sit for more than 5 minutes, or laugh-which I haven't been
doing a whole lot of lately.