At Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Rose wrote:
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>I am having surgery to create an ileostomy and to take down one area
>where I have small bowel adhesions.
>
>Reason I'm having this is I had disaster pelvic floor surgery a year
>ago. I severely scarred in and got rectosigmoid anastomosis stricture
>where sigmoid was removed, got scarred levator muscle, got contracted
>scarred puborectalis muscle that keeps rectum at 90 degrees. Also got a
>focal small bowel stricture.
>
>Doc is going to do this open so he can put in seprafilm. Will this
>work?
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>Will more open surgery create more adhesions even with seprafilm?
>
>WOuld lap surgery to create the ileostomy be better?
>
>Not want any more trouble (have had 4 sbo's so far and cannot move bowel
>rectally without melting stool with COlyte so it can slide through all
>the low blockages)