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> From: "marianne bolding" <ojowojo@yahoo.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
> <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 8:48 PM
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> To everyone, you are all so wonderful for providing
> me (and others) so much advice about heating
> pads...I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. I did
> not sleep at all last night. 17 days after laparot.
> and now I'm back to sleeping on my left side.
> Why?...I
> don't know...with acidophilus I have had a daily
> bowel
> movement...small baby stool and a lot of work. My
> doctor said I should be 100% better. He said I
> should
> have been better within 3-4 days....wish he were me
> during this time...maybe he'd believe me more. I
> seem
> to be having a problem with belching from the minute
> I
> wake up to the time I go to bed. It happens with
> water, applesauce, gatorade...there is no rhyme or
> reason...my stomach has been bloating to the point
> of
> looking pregnant...mostly after food...any form
> of...I
> feel constipated, yet I shouldn't. I feel full even
> if I don't eat all day. It was the first time I had
> ever had surgeory...we were checking for endo...and
> instead of endo it was adhesion involving the
> intestine...I feel that this is some other
> intestinal
> problem...gallbladder...something....has anyone had
> symptoms like this shortly after surgeory involving
> their intestine?...my OB doc has provided me with no
> help...just that I should be better. These symptoms
> are not in my head, I can't cause myself bloating
> like
> this. The stomach seems so active...my pain is all
> over...it's most tender on the left side
> mid-abdomen...not so much where my pain was before
> (my
> pain before was lower left pelvic area...as my ovary
> was involved. I have been released to go back to
> work tomorrow and frankly, I'm scared I won't sleep
> tonight, and that it'll take me hours to function
> abdominally and bowel wise tomorrow...I feel I'll
> need
> to be up by 3AM to make it to work by 7. If you've
> had problems with your gallbladder, kidney, liver,
> pancreas, or appendix....can you tell me if this
> sounds like any of that...my bro had his appendix
> out,
> my father his gallbladder (which gangrened and
> almost
> killed him)...I have a gastro appt to set with my
> PCP
> tomorrow after work and I want to know all the
> possibilities....drs. make me nervous and I always
> forget what I want to say...for fear they'll
> belittle
> me in some way...so, I have written a pain log as
> suggested by Helen's e-mail. Lot's of good info.
> Janet---You go girl...we are all so proud of you.
> Sally---feel better, too....everyone..."pain-free to
> you". Curiousity....if you could go back to the
> first
> time you had adhesion removal...would you do it
> again?
> It seems so many of you suffer more because of
> surgeory...if it weren't for bowel blockage...I'd
> have
> lived with my pain...knowing what I know now.
> Marianne
>
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