be present with new pain ... ..
I spend two months with very little energy, walking at times I fall, I have plenty of vaginal and rectal pain, joint ankle, knee and wrist .
The Gastroenterologist doctor to examine me decide a consultation with a gynecologist, wants to know your opinion about vaginal fistula, I indicates low-dose corticosteroids.
The doctor gynecologist decides to make an examination under anesthesia reservoir, which involved a surgeon gastroenterologist and he believes that this fistula does not close with medications.
I return to the consulting surgeon's opinion gynecologist, he also agrees to make a decision together. Cree
that most likely would make the reservoir and leave the iliostomia permanently.
This time I am categorically I'm not ready for this surgery!
Dr. I say again that in all his medical experience and many cases it has involved only has two patients with this evolution to a recto-vaginal fistula. Ie belong to the rare type of patient, evolving into the most difficult of the disease.
comes the month of June 2008, I was hospitalized to undergo the screening test of the reservoir.
The result was that the fistula was very large, high flow, also had a narrow sector of the small intestine.
surgeon's diagnosis was that it was too complex to close the fistula and repair the narrowing of this segment of bowel, surgery would be higher again, and with an uncertain prognosis.
Gastroenterologist Dr. tells me that in terms of drugs had been used almost everything that could help my recovery, I therefore prescribed only for nefersil sulfasalazine and joint pain.
Yet the news was not so devastating, I felt I had traveled all the roads that could give me a better quality of life before me this review was a slight hope to close this fistula, which disrupted my daily life, I also iliostomÃa realized that would be part of my body.
It's been two months and finally I feel revived again. I'm taking sulfasalazine 1500mg, more probiotics, vitamins, loperamide, flows have decreased and the reservoir is swelling.
All blood tests and biochemical profile are fine.
I returned to work and I'm doing a relatively normal life, I am still uneasy about the loss of my sister Eliana, I feel a part of me went with her, but also to thank the life that my children have grown up healthy in them is not that genetics have hurt with this disease, and are each making their professional lives.
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