Re: Adhesions and Crohn's Disease
From: Mary Clouse (maryjanec48@juno.com)
Sun Aug 3 15:43:46 2003
At Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Mary Clouse wrote:
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>I was just wondering if anyone had experienced adhesions possibly
>related to Crohn's disease. I have Crohn's, and have been pretty stable
>for years, but last year developed a pain in my groin area. I had cat
>scan and they detected that my abdominal lymph nodes were swollen so
>they did a laparoscopy. The lymph nodes were swollen and reddish, but
>no cancerous. Then I got different insurance and went to a different
>doctor. She sent me to a surgeon who did another laparoscopy but this
>time he went down to the groin area, and there were two large adhesions.
>He cut them out but said he could not cauterize the areas because it
>could damage nerves. So now I hope they are not growing back. The
>whole thing is strange. Please email me if you have had a similar
>history.
>
>Thanks!
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Hi, I got an email from CYNTHIA SHRUHAN but I could not reply to it; message kept bouncing back. Anyway, if you read this Cynthia, thanks for the info, although the website you told me about did not come up either.