WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for April, 1998: Re: LEFT IN THE LURCH

Re: LEFT IN THE LURCH

From: JTomko (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 18:29:52 -0600 (CST)

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Annabel,

This is the downside of patient/physician relationship. The need to be heard and listened to and treated. From experience find a compassionate physician who will spend the time to actually have an interactive conversation with you concerning your problems and understanding of your expectations of medical outcome. Write a brief synopsis of your symptoms and history and keep it unemotional...'just the facts' type of letter and give it to this physician.

Curious if anyone did allergy tests to see if you have an allergic reaction to the suture material? Finally an MRI might be able to document inflammatory changes in the muscle if there is an allergic response to the suture material. Pictures do speak more than words sometimes. Wish you success in getting to the bottom of your pain and also hope to you in finding a supportive medical staff. There is an outlet for you in contacting the patient representative at your hospital.

Janet >
>Maybe it is just my naivete, but I did not realize that mind games were
>so prevalent in the medical community today. Why can you not be a woman
>in pain without being labeled a crazy hypochondriac or surgery freak? I
>have been trying to get a suture (I'm pretty sure) removed for the last
>year (since the first one was removed - not a granuloma - an inch long
>blue suture that they injected and called a neuroma until they pulled it
>out of my muscle) to no avail. The entire right lower quadrant of my
>abdomen is swollen, hurts to barely touch, and I can feel a solid bump
>(as can the pain Dr.) underneath. My ob/gyn had helped with the first

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