Re: Surgery--Would you do it again? (POLL)

From: Mark in Seattle (mark7@tx3.net)
Fri Feb 6 18:45:30 2009


At Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Katie wrote: >
>Donna, same as you. The GYN believes that I suffer from Endo although
>this has never been "proven"...

I think these adhesions are related >to my GB removal 13 years ago but of course I won't know until they get
>in there and take a look.

Postcholecystectomy syndrome, (pain, GI distress) following gall bladder surgery is very common. It may very well be caused by adhesions.

Hyvärinen H, Sipponen P, Silvennoinen E. "Intestinal adhesions: an overlooked cause of the postcholecystectomy syndrome." Hepatogastroenterology. 1990 Dec;37 Suppl 2:58-61.

Yours,

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Mark in Seattle

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Mark in Seattle

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