my experience with adhesions

From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Wed Feb 6 18:36:28 2013


From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of kelly murray Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 4:11 PM To: adhesions-request@adhesions.org Subject: Re: my experience with adhesions

I sure wouldn't have another surgery for adhesions if I were you.  They will come back and maybe worse.  Been there, done that.  Went to Germany and had spray gel also.

Kelly   > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:42:43 -0600
> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org
> To: adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com
> Subject: my experience with adhesions
>
> Sender: colleen2997@msn.com (Mommyof3)
> Subject: my experience with adhesions
>
> I have been dealing with horrible abdominal pain intermittenly throught
> most of my life. I am 37. In my 20s, I had a few episodes of abdominal
> pain that were so bad I was on the floor doubled over. But it happened
> probably about 5-7 times during my 20s. I had a child at 21, then not
> again until I was 31 & 33. After the 3rd pregancy, I lost all my weight
> quickly except my belly always was sticking out. I am a marathon runner
> and very healthy otherwise, couldn't figure out why I was so bloated
> everynight and filled with trapped gas. Was told it was IBS. Then came
> the attacks of belly pain, way more frequently than it had every
> happened. I was hospitalized with the most escrucating abdominal pain
> EVER 1 year after my 3rd child. I was vomiting and hospital told me I
> had a full bowel obstruction. It cleared on it's own but they kept me
> for tests. CT scan, small bowel follow through x-rays,
> colonoscopy...tested me for intestinal disease. They could not find
> anything wrong with me and concluded it must be adhesions as a result of
> my ruptured appendix surgery and subsequent infection which I suffered
> 22 years prior. My surgeon wants to go in with a camera and cut the
> adhesions and he is confident it could help. My gastroenterologist says
> NO to surgery and I just have to live with it because surgery could make
> it worse and says most obstructions should clear up on their own, and if
> I am vomiting go to hospital. I am thinking of surgery now beacuse I
> can't live with this anymore. I frequently suffer partial blockages (I
> know the symptoms) which have caused me to miss work and cause
> unimaginable pain. And even if I am not in pain, most nights after
> dinner I get very bloated and full of trapped gas, then I wake up with a
> flat stomach. It's so embarrassing being that I am a thin woman. My
> questions are: 1. Should I get the surgery ? 2. Has anyone else found
> the sumptoms of adhesions only got worse after pregnancy ???
>


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