Re: Would like advice/opinions on bowel adhesions

From: marianne bolding (ojowojo@yahoo.com)
Sat Jul 14 15:18:48 2001


P.S. As far as an obstruction goes...there's always that possibility. Try changing a few things and see what happens first before you fill your mind with stress (another aggravater to bowel probs). All my best to you. I really would try some of these things. They cannot hurt you. --- tinky <anonymous@medispecialty.com> wrote: > Hey all,
> What a great board. I have what seems to be a common
> problem here.
> I have stage 4 endo, and tons of adhesions from
> previous surgeries.
>
> The only ones that bother me seem to be (I figure)
> around the right
> ovary area (whichis no longer there). Here is my
> question(s):
>
> In order to move my bowels each day, I have to get
> up, drink coffee and
> sit and relax for about an hour. if i miss the
> relaxing part, the day
> is shot, and after 2 days, I use a laxative (one of
> those intestine
> irritating types). I occasionaly have stools with
> darker parts which i
> figure might be old blood. This started after my
> last surgery, and i
> was on a low fiber diet for about 6 months till that
> mostly cleared
> up....
>
> Now this would be great (relatively speaking) if I
> did not have like a
> real life and could sit and relax for an hour each
> morning -- which I
> suppose i could do, but it sort of stinks to make it
> the central part of
> my life.
>
> SO: do you guys have experience with this sort of
> thing getting worse?
> I eat a fairly high fiber diet, which from reading
> this list today i
> realize might just be stupid.
>
> Am i looking down the barrell at an obstruction? ANy
> ideas? oh, and from
> my last surgery 3 years ago, i went thru menopause,
> so my endo is
> stable.
>
> thanks in advance for your thoughts and
> opinions!!!!!
>
> -tinky
>
> http://www.adhesions.org/forums/listcmds.htm

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