Hi!
I'm glad to see the forum is running again. It was kind of lonely there
for awhile!
I saw my pcp and brought up the subject of nerve entrapment, myofascial
pain syndrome, and also hernia. He really had no opinion on the nerve
entrapment or the myofascial pain syndrome. In fact, his last comment
about the latter was "I'm not ready to label you with that yet."Does
anyone have any idea what he meant by that? Is this not a recognized
diagnosis among the medical community?
He agreed that hernia in women was extremely hard to diagnose sometimes
but he said the surgeon was the *expert* on that and would have seen it
when he was in there. I mentioned that in the article I have it states
that 65% of female hernias are missed at laparoscopy! He still insists
it is the adhesions even though I reminded him that they were supposed
to have been fixed by the surgeon (and since the first ones had not
reoccurred by the time of hte second lap I feel it is not unreasonable
to believe the second ones fixed might not have reoccurred also) and two
GI doctors (a gastroenterologist and a GI surgeon) have said it is not
related to my bowels. The GI surgeon said it is not related to the
adhesions. The gyn said it is not the adhesions.
He said the next step is the pain clinic and made a referral. I went
home and thought about it and the next
morning I called the surgeon's office. They said it would not be
unreasonable to come in for another opinion
especially since new symptoms have presented since the surgeon did the
lap in Sept. I decided to hold off on the
pain clinic. From what I've read I don't believe they will put much
effort into diagnosis and will just try to treat the pain, probably with
antidepressants. In my case, that would be just trading one set of
problems for another. But I haven't read the website Helen posted yet,
and will do that now.