Do Men Get Adhesions? , GARY

From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Tue Oct 30 19:03:44 2007


From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Murray Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Do Men Get Adhesions? , GARY

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

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> 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
> >

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