Re: Post-op -- intergel-Sue Ann

From: Christine M. Smith (smithy@maine.rr.com)
Fri Aug 20 19:17:40 1999


Hi Sue Ann:

It was when I got news similar to this that I began to wonder what my problem really was. After the second lap (6 months after the first) they told me the adhesion fixed during the first lap had not reoccurred. (I had complete relief of pain for 3 months after the first lap) I thought, how can this be? I have the same exact pain in the same exact location that I had before the first lap. Yet it wasn't being caused by the same problem because that adhesion was fixed at the first lap and it had not reoccurred. This is why I concluded it must be fairly common for pelvic pain to be nonspecific OR my problem was not the adhesions. So why did the pain disappear for 3-4 months after each lap, only to return exactly the same as before? Baffling to say the least. The colo-rectal surgeon was not surprised at all that I had this relief each time and that it was not caused by adhesions. (this is what he believes) You could be having low back pain for a lot of reasons. I would think it could be connected to MS, as could the leg pain, although I'm not too sure because I don't know too much about MS. But I do know that there are all kinds of nervous system abnormalities with MS, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they could cause back and leg pain. The back pain could also be muscular. The PT person told me that many people complaining of back pain have no abnormalities on their MRIs at all. Do you go to PT? It's good to know that your adhesions haven't reoccurred and that intergel seems to have been successful in your case. I hope you get an answer soon.

Chris S.

At Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Sue Ann Murray wrote: >
>I had my post-op yesterday from the second look laproscopy. The good news
>is that he found only a couple of small adhesions on my left ovary, which
>has been a problem in the past. He found no other adhesions anywhere else
>he had used the gel and all major and/or minor organs looked good. He saw
>no signs of endo, although since he doesn't work with endo that much, I
>wonder how much I can trust his judgment. We'll see.
> The bad news is that I am still in a great deal of pain, so am going to
>have to look elsewhere for the source, so Chris, no adhesions don't seem to
>have been the major part of my problem, although they contributed some to
>the pain, but there's obviously other things going on as well. As far as
>the pelvic pain is concerned, will have to look more at the GI stuff when I
>have my GI follow-up in September. Maybe the lower back pain is from the
>kidney stones I have? See a urologist next week about that. And I'm now
>suspecting that the leg pain, instead of being related to the pelvic pain,
>could very well be a symptom of my MS. So yes, the adhesions are gone, at
>least for the moment, but I'm still looking for some more relief.
> But getting back to the intergel, it seems to have worked very well, so
>those of you with more serious adhesion problems might soon have another
>alternative for treatment.
>
>Sue Ann


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