Jenny
>From: milwaukee246@aol.com
>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: Intestinal Adhesions
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:56:24 -0600
>
>Last summer, I had misdiagnosed pelvic pain that developed into
>peritonitis. As a result of the infection, I developed adhesions
>connecting the upper right loop of the colon to the abdominal wall. My
>main chronic symptom was back pain that was worse with activity. Ever
>since that infection, anytime I get a cold or the flu my fingernails
>stop growing and "rings" develop. This also happened when I had the
>peritonitis. I am concerned about this since I have always been healthy
>as a horse and have never had persitent problems with ridges in my nails
>and see it as a sign that there is something wrong with my overall
>health since it is a recurrent problem.
>
>Over 2 1/2 weeks ago, I had a exploratory surgery in which the adhesions
>were discovered and burned away. I STILL have back pain where the
>adhesions were burned away and I would consider the pain to be worse
>than before the surgery... and now have an additional pain in the upper
>right pelvic area. My doctor is unsure of what it may be and has
>mentioned that it might be a pulled muscle. She is an obgyn specialist
>that admits that intestinal adhesions are not her area of expertise and
>wants me to look elsewhere for help. To me, it almost feels like I
>yanked something inside and it snapped and now it hurts. It is worse
>when I change positions, worse at night and first thing in the morning.
>My surgical wounds were slow to heal since most of the biodegradeable
>stiches were visible in the wounds and keeping them open after my other
>stiches were removed. Is it possible I could have an infection brewing?
>I did not have a fever when I had peritonitis last summer and if my
>nails hadn't stopped growing, we wouldn't have thought it was an
>infection since my only symptom was pain... and I just slowly
>deteriorated over time and became extremely weak. I find the current
>pulled muscle story to be plausible but unlikely since I have had so
>much pain since the surgery. We believe the back pain is inflammation
>and/or adhesions trying to grow back but don't have a suggestion for the
>new pain in front. Any suggestions?
>