Re: ADHESIONS: Post period/pre ovulation pain
From: grateful mom (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:55:45 -0500 (CDT)
Dr. Goldfarb -
With all due respect and with many thanks for the advice you so
generously give to women on this board, but adhesions DO cause pain. In
many women they can cause severe pain that interupts day to day life. I
suffer from pelvic adhesive disease without a bit of endo; the only
relief I have had has been following laproscopic ahesiolysis. Thankfully
I have an outstanding GYN who went to bat for me with a general surgeon
and insisted that adhesions were causing my pain. The gen. surg. would
only suggest that I had an entrapped nerve because as he said adhesions
don't cause pain.
Many, many women suffer from pelvic pain due to adhesions and it is
extremely frustrating when drs tell us that the pain could not be from
adhesions because adhesions rarely cause pain.
At Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Dr. Herbert A. Goldfarb wrote:
>
>Message posted on Dr. Herbert A. Goldfarb behalf by: Hope Waltman,
>Fibroid and Women’s Health Forum Moderator
>
>Adhesions usually do not cause pain but Endometriosis does. If you are
>having discomfort you should have a Endovaginal ultrasound during the
>period of pain. If endo is present in the ovaries it will be fairly
>obvious.
>
>Dr. Herbert A. Goldfarb
>New York Downtown Hospital, http://www.nohysterectomy.com
>
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>At Wed, 4 Jun 2008, AEKG wrote:
>>
>>I am 40 yrs old with a history of what was described after a lap as
>>moderate to severe endo with adhesions. Fortunately, I do not have
>>significant cramping or pain from my endo. I have 2 children by
>>c-section in 2004 and 2006. For the past few months, I have noticed
>>that about a week after my period, I get a dull, aching, fairly
>>uncomfortable feeling in the area where my ovaries are (the same place
>>my doc palpates during the internal exam). I presume that this week in
>>my cycle is when the follicles are maturing and maybe the ovaries are
>>increasing in size or swelling somewhat, but I am puzzled as to why my
>>ovaries are hurting so much and I am wondering if they could be caught
>>up in adhesions? I do get pretty intense sensations when I ovulate -
>>kind of a build-up of pain and then a sharper pain, and then everything
>>kind of goes back to "normal". I don't recall feeling this discomfort
>>prior to ovulation in the past, so I'm wondering what is going on. My
>>main guess is maybe adhesions are causing the problem? Would there be
>>another explanation?
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