At Sun, 16 Apr 2000, toni welsh wrote:
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>At Fri, 14 Apr 2000, JIM wrote:
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>>I had a small bowel resection for intestinal obstruction due to crohn's
>>disease in 1997.
>>In Mar 1999 I developed obstructive symptoms and had another resection.
>>Extensive adhesions were detected and repaired at that time, although
>>they had not caused any symptoms.
>>
>>In Sep 99 I developed obstructive symptoms. A barium xray showed a
>>definite narrowing of the intestine at one point. However, xrays in Feb
>>2000 showed no narrowing. Last week I had the most violent obstructive
>>attack I've ever had. My doctors suspect adhesions.
>>
>>My question is: do obstructions due to adhesions in effect come and go,
>>or are they continuous? What do they look like on a xray?
>>
>WHAT WERE YOUR SYPTOMS OF OBSTRUCTION, A FEW DAYS AGO i HAD THE SAME
>TROUbLE GOING, AND COULD NOT GET THE STOOL TO MOVE, OOPS, for two days I
>could not even touch the area in the pelvis especially on the right
>side, like I had it in feb, and it hurt so bad I cried for days, I could
>not move my body in any way, or touch it down there, without terrible
>pain. I started Ultram, and it helped alittle added to the oxycontin.
>My bowels are not moving again, sometimes after senekot,6 of them, and 2
>colace, and they still do not move, the cramp and feeling is there, but
>I cannot get it out, and the pressure gets so strong I cannot stand it.
>What is that? Right now I have to think of father in law, and not my
>surgery. In 3 days, he has become like an altheimers patient, and it is
>so sad. We almost lost him 5 days ago, but now he is going to go home,
>his mind is BAD, but the boys want him at home. it will be rough we all
>have to help with him, but my husband wanted his mother to take him
>home. I do not know if the pain is worse for me due to all this going
>on. They are bringing a hospital bed for him, and we have to go over
>tonight to help get the other room ready. this has been hard!
>Again, what syptoms did you have being obstruced, my drs still think
>what the episodes I have is partial obstuctions, they are terribly
>painful!
>
>Toni
>>--
>>Jim from Milwaukee
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-- Jim from Milwaukee