Re: Abdominal adhesions recently cut from bowel area during abdominal
From: Ivy (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Fri May 3 12:33:53 2002
At Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Sally Grigg wrote:
>
>Dear Millie, After 33 years of adhesions, and medical procedures, I can tell
>you that adhesions can and sometimes do start forming immediately after a
>surgury or laproscopic surgury. What works for me is to not try to eat regular
>meals, but to take a little bit of yogurt, and then later some Ensure, then
>later a blended vegetable drink. In other words, small, frequent, soft or
>liquid nutrious portions, even baby food. I don't know if you have allergies
>and I'm not a doctor, but it sounds like you need a different, more caring
>doctor. Hang in there and write back to this site. We all care and you can't
>keep losing weight. Please try and count your blessings even though as I
>write this you probably want to smack me ,but forced optimism and prayers
>combined with better medical care will help. Take care of yourself. Love and
>prayers, Sally Grigg
>
>Millie wrote:
>
>> On Jan.29,2001, I had a TAH, and the ob/gyn cut adhesions from around
>> the bowel area. I have been having more pain than ever and more bowel
>> problems, pain before, during, and after small bowel movements, or loose
>> stool. The pain never lets up. The ob/gyn snipped the adhesions with
>> Metzenbaum scissors, and placed Interceed. Now I find out the organs
>> she removed were in good shape, and I didn't need that done. I have one
>> ovary left. I asked her if I could already have adhesions reformed in
>> the abdomen. She said no. Then she looked in my past history from the
>> gastro's office, and told me it's not from the surgery, but from
>> Irritable Bowel. I know it isn't , because I know what those IBS
>> symptoms are like - a lot different from these. She called me her
>> colicky baby. The gastro's nurse practitioner told me they've done
>> every test on me, and found nothing. I told him that was before I had
>> major abdominal surgery. He still insisted it is IBS. I'm fighting a
>> losing battle. I have lost at least 15 lbs. I'm only about 101lbs., if
>> even. I want to eat, but it feels as if everything is welded together,
>> and I can only do small stools, or loose, with constant pain. I can't
>> go on like this much longer. I don't know what else to do. I don't
>> want to end up with an intestinal obstruction once, let alone more. I
>> am afraid of ending up with an ostomy, and I can't deal with it.
>> Thanks for listening to me. Are there any others out there with this
>> same poblem? How did it affect you? Repeated intestinal obstructions?
>> Repeated surgeries to try to correct an ongoing problem, only to find
>> out that adhesions still return? Is there a Dr. out there willing to
>> help me? I live in N.Y. State. I can't take the pain much more.
>> Millie M.
>>
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I have have had a hysterectomy that involved the colon attached to
the ovary. I have found tiny meals with yogurt to be extremely
helpful followed about an hour later with a cup of something warm.
Tea, bullion, coffee. It stimulates the movement. Stool softeners
are also a help. Light massage is good but definately not the deep
tissue work that so many practitioners recommend for this type of probelm.
I wouldn't allow it unless I were willing to risk another hospital
expereince. Stretching helps and avoid impact sports or exercise.