Today was a busy day. To say the least.
It started out with my appt with the GYN. It resulted in a good news/ bad news sort of thing.
Good News- My girly parts look good and healthy! No sign of cancer! No sign of endo, or ando…. whoohooo…
Bad news- it looks like my pain is all caused by a abdomen full of scar tissue. One ovary in particular is completely encased. The more I move, the more it strains and pulls that tissue, which in turn makes it painful. The tissue is getting wrapped up and tangled in the various parts in my abdominal cavity. There is no cure, no remedy except surgery, but if they do surgery, the scar tissue will just grow back, and worse.
That’s what happens when you have so many surgeries. Which I had not thought I had a lot, but evidently 5 is alot. I am allergic to the best medication to take for the pain, so I am stuck with taking tylenol. which doesn’t help with the swelling and inflammation.
I’ll take that news over cancer any day.
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Then we went to youngest’s appt. He got hooked up to a holter monitor for 24 hours to see how his heart ticks. While talking to the cardiologist, I gave her a copy of my ECG to send to the specialist at Duke, along with Youngests’ and Son 2′s…. she looks at my ECG and says “frankly, your ECG bothers me more than the boys does” And leaves it at that……. I have no idea what she meant. And considering this is her very last day practicing since she is retiring as of today, I may never find out. We will know sometime over the next 3-4 weeks if the guy at Duke wants to see Youngest or not.
Over all, it was a good day, I don’t have cancer!
I’m so glad you got in and got some answers. Scar tissue or adhesions can indeed be painful. Hmmm, the surgery — while painful and the recovery would be painful — you would have some relief for awhile. There are also things (like interceed) they can put over the sites they remove the scar tissue from to prevent further scar tisshe and adhesions. I know, because they did that for me when I had my surgery back in 2004.
A weird question, do you know if you have any American Indian ancestry? I ask because it’s said that people who have American Indian ancestry are more prone to scarring. Just curious.
xoxo
I have no idea if I am of American Indian ancestry…. By looking at my skintone, I would say…. whatever pale is… lol.
What a relief that it isn’t cancer. And I really feel there are ways to break up scar tissue without creating more. Jethro does it (very superficially) at the clinic on muscle injuries.
I just looked up a lady in Asheville who does massage and lists scar tissue reduction as one of her services.
http://www.holisticsymmetry.com/craniosacral_therapy.htm
I can’t vouch for her, but it might be worth looking into. The medical community is very often not interested in problems that aren’t life-threatening. Alternative medicine is more on the forefront of theses quality of life issues.
Lady Z THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! Too bad we aren’t there, or ya’ll aren’t here, I would be Jethro’s fav patient! lol
Well you’d be his first patient for actual scar tissue reduction.
I looked at the website you posted and am going to call her tomorrow just to see what’s up! Stud wants to watch lol sheesh…
Please let me know what she says. When Jethro breaks up scar tissue, it’s painful, but that’s because it’s on a small part of the body. He digs in hard and it’s over quickly. I’m just curious if there is a gentler approach even if it takes longer.
I will definitely let you know…