>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ginny Halpern" <gingin99@home.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:13 AM
>Subject: Re: Do I have adhesions, does it sound familiar??
>
>My heart goes out to you, and since my adhesion problems seem to have
>worsened after my hysterectomy in 1982 (at age 29) and my bowel was
>adhered to the bladder and spine, I can tell you only what I know.
>Adhesions don't usually go away. If they are there at all, and lay in
>filmy layers across your organs, you may never know you have them. It's
>when they are thick, gummy and more like rubber bands than a flimsy
>coating of saran wrap that you develop pain.
>Doctors argue that "Adhesions cannot cause pain because scar tissue has
>no nerve endings." Most unfortunate is their unwillingness to realize
>tthat as soon as the adhesive tissue binds with healthy organ tissue and
>a pulling on and even a displacing of the organs occurs the nerve
>endings in the organs create the pain sensations.
>
>If a bowel is "glued" fast to the spinal column and you move a certain
>way, naturally there will be pain, a pulling sensation and all other
>types of discomfort. Ditto with bladder involvement, bladder to
>bowel,means that the adhesions are quite low in the pelvic cavity which
>can even press on nerves that run into your thighs and legs. (as in my
>case)
>
>You sound like a prety logical candidate for adhesions. The bowel
>regimen the doctors have suggested is an excellent way to keep your
>bowels from obstructing. There's also a theory that having regular
>peristaltic movement in the bowel will help to "snap" the adhesions. But
>as far as using Metamucil to take away the pain that most all of us
>inflicted with ARD had or has, I don't think it's the answer.
>
>I am on pain management and have been for 6 yrs. If you don't obstruct,
>but if the pain is so severe that it is affecting your life I think you
>might benefit from talking to a pain specialist about your options for
>relief. Your choices aren't limited to swallowing narcotics. There are
>nerve blocks that can help and other pain management techniques.
>
>Please feel free to write me at my address: gingin99@home.com
>
>My prayers to you!
>
>Ginny
>
>IAS Support person, Pennsylvania
>
>At Mon, 11 Jun 2001, al wrote:
>>
>>I had a laprascopicaly assisted vaginal hysterectomy. Then two vaginal
>>heamatomas drained. Then my small intestine dropped down and adhered to
>>the vaginal vault, this was cut and the small intestine relocated and
>>the colon put in its place. I have since had a subacute bowel
>>obstruction, this was very painful. The doctors were reluctant to 'go
>>in' again, a colonoscopy was done this found no problem in colon.
>>
>>This has all happened in the last two months. I feel like i have been
>>thrown into something i know nothing about. My theory is that a problem
>>with colon wouldn't have shown as the bowel had been prepared and it was
>>empty, my problem occurs when it is full. The pain in my lower back and
>>front is great. It's as if someone has sewn my bowel to the abdominal
>>lining, it pulls. I can feel bowel movements, it hurts to sleep on my
>>side, I can't walk around the block with out pain. Doctors told me to
>>drink "Metamusil" three times a day, eat lots of fibre.
>>
>>When does the pain end?
>>Do adhesions stretch, as this is what i have been told?
>>Should i ask for a second oppinion?
>>HELP