At Wed, 29 May 2002, Barbara wrote:
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>At Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Sally Grigg wrote:
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>>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:
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>>> 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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>Dear Millie,
>I have had abdominal pain similar to labor pains with contractions coming every
>few minutes and no bowel movement. After several minutes or HOURS, the bowel
>begins to move usually very small in size. Most of the time it continues with
>pain until they get really loose. I too have been diagnosed with IBS. Because
>I have days of constipation. I had a tubal ligation in 1973 and then a vaginal
>removal of my womb in 1974 because of tubal pelvic pain. Ever since these
>sugeries, I have had stomach problems. I have asked each GI doctor if he thinks
>adhesions could be wrapping around my colon and causing the pain and the small
>snake like stools. He said he would have seen some damage inside the colon
>when he did the colonoscopies. I loose weight also. I have a friend who is
>diagnosed with spastic colon who wears a 2X. She also has loose stools, but
>it hits her and she goes. Mine starts with extreme sickening pain and I cannot go
>until the bowel gets free. I try to tell the doctors, they just think it is
>stress. I have had some good years, but this one has been extremely bad. I
>too feel someday the bowel will obstruct. I also have a rectocel but the
>OB doctor doesn't think it is that bad at this point. I just live with pain,
>and look for restrooms. Try to live as normal a life as possible. What do you
>think.!! Oh, when I have the contrations, they are low where the bikini cut
>was made for the tubal ligation.!!!!
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