I have sent Mayo a loy of information as well as adhesiolysis surgical videos...all to the ob/gyn and surgery dept! Plus information on the IAS! So, just maybe you will be treated with a different persepecitve..but I doubt it! If it were just me that was treated like this at the Mayo clinic when I ptresnetd with adhesion pain, I wouldn't say anything, but it appears to be a common pratice...I think if you look in the past forum postings of JUNE or JULY you will see a few postings from others who were not treated for adhesion pain at mayo.... But you have to do what you think will work and until you exhaust all your avenue, you will never know what might have helped. Good Luck! Beverly
>----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Dynda <olddad66@runestone.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: [2]: [2]: Bad day
> Laura,
>
> No, I have not heard of Dr. Johnson Thistle, who is at the Mayo Clinic.
> When is your appointment for? I can tell you this that, unless you are
> having an emergency bowel obstruction, the only help you will get for
> your adhesions is the suggestion of going to a pain clinic. This is
> what I was told January 1998.
>
> I had been to the Mayo Clinic 6 times over a span of 27 years. In 1981
> I submitted to 4 different kinds of nerve blocks at their pain clinic -
> and I got absolutely no help for my chronic pain. After receiving no
> relief from pain, I was told that they couldn't help me.
>
> Laura, you could go to a doctor in Wayzata, who is a member of the
> International Pelvic Pain Society, for pain management - at less cost to
> you!!
>
> I have been checking some of the web sites, which have information about
> prescription drugs; and I took a chance and addressed this information
> to: adhesions@adhesions.org. I wanted you to know that at the
> Healthtouch.com web site, one of the side-effects of Paxil is: "trouble
> sleeping." Could this explain why you are having trouble sleeping?
>
> - - - - - - - -
>
> At Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Laura A Johnsrud wrote:
> >
> >I have an appointment at the Mayo Clinic with Dr. Johnson Thistle. Have
you
> >heard of him?
>
> --
> The 15th century proverb which summarizes the purpose of medicine is:
> * To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. *
>