I don't understand. I thought adhesions reform within a few weeks. If this is the case, how could they form after months or years?????
Mark writes:
I've read from multiple sources that adhesions don't necessarily cause problems. You can have adhesions and be just fine. But if the tension increases and a formerly benign adhesion starts to pull or wrap itself around your bowel, you begin to have problems. This can happen days, months, years, or decades after the adhesion formed.
So in answer to your quetion: it's not that adhesions form months or years later and then cause problem. The adhesion(s) was/were always there. Just lying in wait.
This time delay is one of the things that makes adhesions so difficult to diagnose. We're not used to dealing with illnesses with such long delays. I know I was incredulous when I first was told that my illness was caused by a surgery I had more than 20 years ago. I thought that was ancient history.
Yours,
-- Mark in Seattle