Thanks for reading this! I need all the help I can get!! I have been
very sick again.....the fourth time this summer! My doctor finally took
me serious enough to recommend some tests and I don't know much about
them. On Friday I am supposed to have a Sigmoidoscopy? and a Barium
Enema.......doesn't sound like much fun. The Friday after that I have
to have an upper GI. If all of these are negative, he wants to schedule
exploratory surgery. If I have to do that it will be my 9th surgery for
adhesions. Should I have all those tests first? Will that just be more
misery for nothing? I feel like I have to do what he says, at least he's
doing something besides sending me home with antibiotics and pain
pills!! What about more surgery? Is it worth making this worse to maybe
get a few months of being better???? I have missed 17 days of work this
year alone and I'm scared to death that I will lose my job! My boss
thinks having more surgery is the thing to do, but I am so unsure!
Please tell me what you think.....and any info you might have about
these tests!