Re: Any advice???

From: teresa hunt (msmoose62@hotmail.com)
Sun Sep 12 20:39:50 1999


Thank you Peggy for your support. I was referred to this forum by my best friend. She suggested I get on here to see what kinda responses an/or helpfrom you great people. I live in Kentucky and went to Nashville for the doctor that preformed the surgery. This doctor is a gyn When I had the infected port they(his nurse, I never spoke to him) suggested I see a local doctor instead of driving 100 miles to see hime for something that could be taken care of at home. Today has been very bad for me. Fever and nausea all day and night. I have been in bad pain all day. My husband took me to a clinic. They gave me a shot of phergan and told me call my pcp in the morning. X-rays and lab tests shown nothing. I know I am not crazy, but it is really hard. Just reading about who else has this GREAT mystery called ASHESIONS is real relief. Thank you very much!!!! Teresa

>From: pklippe1@nycap.rr.com (Peggy)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: Any advice???
>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 08:44:44 -0500
>
>At Sat, 11 Sep 1999, teresa hunt wrote:
> >
> >Here goes...I'll give you a brief run down so you'll know history. 80
>first
> >vaginal birth, 82 laproscopy diagnostic & DNC, 85 tubal after vaginal
>birth,
> >93 appendectomy 3 weeks later diagnostic laproscopy, 96 rolling ball
> >endemetrial ablation after 6 months of bleeding, 97 both tubes removed
>fluid
> >build up, Feb 98 right ovary removed STUCK to my pelvic bone, after 6
>months
> >of "unexplained"((I suggested adhesions from the start)) pain and 5 pcp's
> >and 5 specialist (my gyn and the last one that finally diagnosed
>adhesions
> >and removed them, a GI, 2 general surgeons, one of which said pulled
>muscle
> >in the beginning of pain after the other gave me a cortisone IN my
>abdomen
> >Worse pain than surgery without prescribing any pain meds). On August
>18th I
> >had 8 adhesions cut they were way up in my abdomen almost to my ribcage,
>so
> >no barrier was used. Yet they were attached to my small intestine and
> >colon. Now I'm having the same pain as when the adhesion first started
>this
> >year. I went for my post-op check up Thursday and was told that he
>didn't
> >what was causing my pelvic pain most likely muscular-skeletal. He never
> >check the 3 port he made, one of which got infected and he sent me to a
> >local doctor who put me on 500mg Keflex. He gave me Robaxin 750mg and
>said
> >if they didn't help I needed to see a neurosurgeon and maybe physical
> >therapy. The present adhesion pain is like it started after surgery in
>Feb
> >this year, not bad yet but the same. He told me before surgery if it
>came
> >back I needed to try pain management and I agreed after I heard how it
> >helped people on here. I am lost and don't where else to turn I traveled
> >100 miles to find a doctor who even believed I had adhesions in the first
> >place. I know I not crazy, but it sure is hard to accept sometime. I
>start
> >back to work Monday and I'm not sure how long I'll be able to keep it up
>the
> >Robaxin isn't helping with the pelvic pain.
> >ANY ADVICE???? I'm think I am going crazy, but I know better.
> >Teresa Hunt
>
>Hi Teresa, you have been through the mill and back again. No you are
>not crazy, your story is a lot like several of us on this forum. What
>state do you live in ? You had your last surgery on August 18th and went
>in for you post-op this past Thursday? Did you ask him to check the port
>holes ?Not that you should, He should have checked them right away
>seeing that you had an infection in one.And why did he send you to a
>different Dr. for that problem? I would think that he should have been
>capable of taking care of this himself.THe Dr. that did this last
>surgey,was he a gyn or a surgeon? The only advice that I can give you
>right now is too try and find a different Dr. but if it took you going
>100 miles to find this one to recognize that adhesions are a problem I
>really don't know what to tell you.Except,know that you are not alone
>.We are all here on this forum for the same reason."ADHESIONS" and we
>are a very supportive group and can help you with emotion support.
>Please hang in there and let me know where you are from.
>"FRIENDS THAT STICK TOGETHER" PEGGY
>


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