Gary, At what point should you go to the hospital. I don't go to the bathroom for about 4 days and I have horrible gripping pain. It always passes but some times I feel like my intestines are going to burst. I believe between the meds and adhesions, I have bowel problems.
Kelly
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> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:04:47 -0500
-- ________________________________________ > From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org > To: adhesions@dns.obgyn.net > Subject: Do Men Get Adhesions? an informative look by Dr. David Wiseman Phd, MRPharmS, Founder, International Adhesions Society (IAS) > > Sender: gpresto@comcast.net (Gary) > Subject: Re: Do Men Get Adhesions? an informative look by Dr. David Wiseman > Phd, MRPharmS, Founder, International Adhesions Society (IAS) > > Hi all, this is so true that men can suffer much from adhesion problems, > too. I know. I'm having a bad night with the symptoms tonight, too. > > I've had IBS-C for 20 years. On top of that, I was diagnosed with > diverticulosis in 2003. When IBS was less understood than it is even > still today, my docs desired me to submit in 1992 to a voluntary, > exploratory surgical procedure to check out what might be causing my > frequent small bowel obstruction attacks. They say that they found some > adhesions holding together some portions of intestine, and removed them. > They sewed up my gut with a long scar vertically running through my > navel. I look like the side of a football. > > Slowly but surely, the bowel obstructions returned in the late '90s. To > date, I've been hospitalized over 15 times for weeklong stays with NG > tubes down me without liquids or solids. Then right after my dad died, > I got a killer of an attack that got me rushed to the hospital again. > Irreversible, large adhesion obstructing my small bowel -- they say it > was ready to burst. They performed emergency surgery and discovered 15 > adhesions throughout my gut. Same hospital ward and doctors that > surrounded my dying father just weeks before. Too horribly surreal. > Another 2 months out of work recuperating from that. > > Now I never know if my sometime-bouts with the severe intestinal pain > are always just colitis, Irritable Bowel, or adhesion attacks. Even my > primary care doc says that I seem to have not been dealt the best of > cards health-wise. It's a vicious cycle. You can do all the healing > meditation, correct diet, exercise, drinking of fluids, fiber intake, > and supplements you want -- when they're there, they're there. And > people look at you at work and out socially like, "Oh, poor guy, poor > baby...he has a tummy ache. Stop complainin'!" > > I'd like them to live with the pain for just 2 hours and experience its > validity. I believe all doctors should be licensed not until they can > document that they actually have the illnesses that they want to > practice in administering. I DO believe in prayer and faith...or I > wouldn't be here now. You need the faith, too, above and in addition to > all the physical and emotional treatments. > > I hope that we all have a restful, pain-free night! ;-) > > Thanks for listening from Boston, > Gary > > At Sun, 7 Oct 2007, IAS Admin wrote: > > > >Readers, > >Please take a moment to learn more about men & adhesions from this article > >by Dr. Wiseman. You can download the full report by going to: > > > >http://www.adhesions.org/whatsnew.htm or, > http://www.adhesions.org/downloads.htm > >We have also posted this in our Men's section. > > > >Thank you. > >Tracy > >IAS Admin > >