Edema & Protein Deficiency?-Kayce

From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Tue Oct 30 18:58:33 2007


From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Murray Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:55 PM Subject: Re: Edema & Protein Deficiency?-Kayce

Kayce, Thank you so much for the information.  I sure will keep this in mind on my next visit. So, is that not the same protein that they test your urine for? There was alot of protein in the urine for a few weeks.  Or is it completely different?

Kelly

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> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:06:17 -0500

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> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org
> To: adhesions@dns.obgyn.net
> Subject: Edema & Protein Deficiency?
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> Sender: "Kayce" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
> Subject: RE: Edema & Protein Deficiency?
>
> I had a HUGE problem with edema about 2 years ago. As my surgeon explained
> it to me, edema is when water leaves the cells of the body and fills the
> open spaces when the cell walls are too week to contain the water. In my
> case, cell walls were weakened by severe protein deficiency brought on by
> months of living on baby food, laxatives, and buying time until I could
find
> a doctor able to pinpoint what was wrong with me and then correct it. I
had
> adhesions that created two small passages that were too narrow for
anything
> of any size to pass through and by the time I had surgery, even baby food
> and water had become impassable. I just got sick all of the time and
rapidly
> lost weight. When edema is as severe as mine was, the body doesn't have
the
> protein needed to recover from surgery and I was protein deficient to the
> point of requiring Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) via a port that was
put
> in my chest just for this purpose during another resection surgery. I
stayed
> on TPN in the hospital for three weeks. It's amazing what that stuff can
do!
> I started gaining weight back, getting energy, etc. I started to recover!

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