Re: Please set me straight on adhesions

From: Lgapmon@aol.com
Fri Jul 13 16:58:40 2001


In a message dated 07/13/2001 1:21:44 PM US Mountain Standard Time, anonymous@medispecialty.com writes:

<< I thought adhesions only grew the firtst 7 days after surgery?? >>

They start within 3 to 5 days post op. Then they can keep growing for years.

<< Do they multiply or continue to grow??>>

They can.

<>

No.

<< How then do they obstruct a bowel or continue to weave themselves among other organs??>>

They can constrict around a portion of the bowel and as they shrink/grow, obstruction occurs.

<<They sound alot like endometreosis??>>

Hmmm I don't have endo but as I understand it, endo is when (uterine) tissue grows where it isn't supposed to. Adhesions are sort of like that, I believe.

Hope you have a very good, pain-free weekend!!

Love,

Lynda M. in AZ

"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live." - Boris Pasternak


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