Re: adhesions and bloating..
From: Senem Hanford (senem_hanford@kindermorgan.com)
Tue Aug 6 08:08:03 2002
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Belinda wrote:
>
>I was just wondering if anyone out there who has problems with adhesions
>has ever had a problem with bloating also.
>I have had several surgeries in the past and adhesion removal. I am
>having pain, pretty severe again now. I have an appointment to go to
>the doctor who will hopefully do the removal of what I am sure are
>adhesions again. Since I had my last adhesion surgery in Feb of 1997 I
>have alwasy had a problem with bloating. I just always assumed it was
>something to do with it, the adhesions or whatever. Well it has gotten
>pretty bad, we are talking up to 4 inches. My stomache can actually
>measure up to 4 inches different in a matter of one day. I look like I
>am 3-4 months pregnant. Is there any one else who has had this problem
>or does it seem that I also have another issue going on. I think that
>my bladder might be involed this time as well as the colon and
>intestines. I have started to have a NEW type of pain in the last 2 to
>3 weeks. If I go to the bathroom every hour I can keep the pain
>severity down a bit. It is almost like a pressure on the bladder. The
>pain is also not only in the lower right quad now it is starting to
>shoot up the middle just to under the rib cage.
>Any suggestions would be appreciated..
>thanks,
>Belinda
Dear belinda, I feel for you. I know exaclty what you are going
through. I recently had 1 big adhesion removed this past Friday. For
years I could not figure out why I was always having these severe
shooting pains in my stomache and out my rectum and even just recently
too felt the pain in my stomache that felt like my bladder had dropped
or something. I had to keep peaing to relive the pressure but ofcoarse
that didnt really help much . I had a laparoscopy done Aug 2nd 2002.
They removed a very large adhesion that I cant figure out what its from.
Htey told me that they do grow back and I will have to get them cut out
every so often. But my main concern was why I have not been able to get
pregnant for the past 9 months? They were going in looking for
endometriosis. But I guess I did not have that except for bleedig
outside the uterus. Which ofcoarse I have not talked to the doctor yet
about becuase I dont go see him for 2 weeks yet. So I have so many
question and if this is whats is causing our pain is the adhesions then
this sucks. I have only had one child 11 yers ago I am only 29 and cant
figure out why I am suffering from this awful pain. I actually thought
maybe my bladder did drop the way it felt.
Maybe you can give me some feedback. You were the most related to the
pain that you described in your email.
Senem