Adhesions - Hope For Those Who Suffer From Adhesion Related Disorder
Adhesion sufferers have felt the spin.
Medical spin, that is.
Like the child who waits for the parent to take him off the merry go round (I've had enough fun, thank you) the person who suffers from adhesions often feels trapped in a vicious cycle of pain, repeated medical tests, yet no answers.
Most adhesion sufferers see doctor after doctor, with each one giving the ill patient the proverbial medical whirl.
Time passes, pain continues, yet most sufferers feel compelled to seek out another doctor, i.
e.
: jump on a new carousel.
Sick, (often in terrible pain) they muster up the strength and continue the search for that special doctor...
hopes held high that he or she has a new manner (EUREKA!) in which to rotate that infuriating medical platform.
For some strange reason, the optimistic person who suffers...
and suffers...
and suffers...
holds high expectation that somewhere along the way there will be that one-in-a-million doctor who will turn them in the right direction; the doctor who will know how to lead them out of their life of misery by doing what no other doctor has done.
Unfortunately, many adhesion sufferers learn the hard way that though many doctors will have the opportunity to grab the wheel and throw them for a spin, they often continue going the same direction they have been a thousand times before! Is the sufferer simply daft? After all, Albert Einstein said: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
However, the person who suffers in illness certainly has no desire to ride the medical merry-go-round; rather they realize they have one of two choices: 1.
Give up and succumb to a life of pain and misery.
2.
Cling to hope while desperately grasping for that elusive medical thread that surely hangs somewhere across the vast expanse of the universe! For the adhesion sufferer, education is the key factor to understanding the complexity of this horrid illness.
Many physicians admit their defeat to this illness, while others deny that adhesions cause pain.
(OUCH!) (Of course, those who deny that adhesions cause pain obviously do not have their internal organs stuck together.
) The majority-yes majority-of physicians will never mention the possibility of adhesions when the patient presents with painful abdominal or pelvic complaints.
Rather, most adhesion sufferers walk away with suggestions of IBS, Crohn's disease, depression, spastic colon, or...
This medical spin of the ill is why most adhesion sufferers search 7-10 years for an answer to their pain.
And, many, many patients diagnose themselves.
Which leaves us with one question: Is there a doctor in the house?
Medical spin, that is.
Like the child who waits for the parent to take him off the merry go round (I've had enough fun, thank you) the person who suffers from adhesions often feels trapped in a vicious cycle of pain, repeated medical tests, yet no answers.
Most adhesion sufferers see doctor after doctor, with each one giving the ill patient the proverbial medical whirl.
Time passes, pain continues, yet most sufferers feel compelled to seek out another doctor, i.
e.
: jump on a new carousel.
Sick, (often in terrible pain) they muster up the strength and continue the search for that special doctor...
hopes held high that he or she has a new manner (EUREKA!) in which to rotate that infuriating medical platform.
For some strange reason, the optimistic person who suffers...
and suffers...
and suffers...
holds high expectation that somewhere along the way there will be that one-in-a-million doctor who will turn them in the right direction; the doctor who will know how to lead them out of their life of misery by doing what no other doctor has done.
Unfortunately, many adhesion sufferers learn the hard way that though many doctors will have the opportunity to grab the wheel and throw them for a spin, they often continue going the same direction they have been a thousand times before! Is the sufferer simply daft? After all, Albert Einstein said: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.
However, the person who suffers in illness certainly has no desire to ride the medical merry-go-round; rather they realize they have one of two choices: 1.
Give up and succumb to a life of pain and misery.
2.
Cling to hope while desperately grasping for that elusive medical thread that surely hangs somewhere across the vast expanse of the universe! For the adhesion sufferer, education is the key factor to understanding the complexity of this horrid illness.
Many physicians admit their defeat to this illness, while others deny that adhesions cause pain.
(OUCH!) (Of course, those who deny that adhesions cause pain obviously do not have their internal organs stuck together.
) The majority-yes majority-of physicians will never mention the possibility of adhesions when the patient presents with painful abdominal or pelvic complaints.
Rather, most adhesion sufferers walk away with suggestions of IBS, Crohn's disease, depression, spastic colon, or...
This medical spin of the ill is why most adhesion sufferers search 7-10 years for an answer to their pain.
And, many, many patients diagnose themselves.
Which leaves us with one question: Is there a doctor in the house?
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