At Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Debbie wrote:
>
>Hi Jayne
>
>I felt compelled to reply to your post as our stories are incredibly
>similar.
>
>I've had a horribly painful sigmoidoscopy, one that could not be
>completed due to the level of pain I was experiencing. It sounds like
>this is what happened to you with your colonoscopy. I was horrified and
>disgusted when I read how your doctor treated you. Have you considered
>reporting him?
>
>Anyway...my adhesions are due to endometriosis. I have had trouble with
>bowel adhesions for as long as I've known about my endo which is about
>17 years.
>
>I have suffered with rectal pain, pain with bowel movements, lower left
>quadrant pain, chronic constipation etc., etc. A couple of years ago I
>went through a bout of constipation that went on for 17 days. Eventually
>when I was unable to have a bm on my own and started having a lot of
>accompanying nausea and vomiting my doctor ordered me to go to the
>emergency room. There I was given a high powered enema that finally got
>things moving but of course that was only treating the symptoms, not the
>problem.
>
>I underwent extensive bowel studies to try and figure out what the
>problem was. I was diagnosed with redundant bowel just as you have
>been. I had marked redundancy and tortuosity at the sigmoid colon as
>well as portions of the descending colon. Redundant bowel is indeed
>extra bowel and many times it forms extra loops which can be constricted
>by adhesions if they are present. In my case the extra loops were in
>the shape of a pretzel and folded backwards on themselves. Eventually I
>had a double bowel resection surgery. There was one portion of bowel
>removed at the sigmoid colon, to remove the redundant loops of bowel,
>and the second portion was removed on the small bowel, at the terminal
>ileum, due to full thickness endometriosis.