Take care all
Tina
At 12:48 PM 7/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In my study's of adhesion disorder and adhesionalysis with reformed
>adhesions, that 99% of adhesions will reform following surgery. Not all
>adhesions are problamatic, do not cause pain. It is in MY opinion,
>based on my own experience's of living with adhesion disorder and the
>study of numorous adhesionalysis operative reports,including my own,
>that the organs that are ment to be free floating, (like intestines,)
>and those organs that are very sensative, ( ovarys, similar to the male
>testes ) when adhered to a stationary part in the abdominal cavity like
>the peritoneum ( inner abdominal wall )are the cause of the adhesional
>pain. When you understand that the movement of the intestines when a
>person elects to sit in a straight chair, for example, the intestines
>are ment to move upwards and to the back so that they are not bunched in
>the lower abdominal cavity as you are sitting. When the intestines are
>attatched to a stationary part of the cavity, they do not move, thus
>causing a pulling on the adhesion attatchment sites on the organs. This
>pulling causes aggitation at those sites, thus creating inflamation at
>the sites as well. The body reacts to inflamation with pain signals,
>thus our pain! Inflamation also cause the white blood cells to be
>elevated, that is a normal response to inflamation by the body. I
>beleive that if every adhesion disorder patients presented to their Dr.
>for a WBC count, it would be elevated...that is also why it is
>importanat to be on anti inflamitory medciations ( or something ) that
>will help decrease that inflamation and hopefull reduce the pain some.
>Because we are constantly moving, we are constantly causing that
>aggitation, thus chronic pain from adhesions that are attatched. In my
>adhesionalysis of April 22, 1999 there was ONE attatchment site where
>the right outterside of my lower sigmoid colon was was turned completely
>over upside down acrossed my cavity and attatched to LEFT side of my
>lower peritoneum. One stationary attatchment. There were also dense
>adhesions throughout all of my intestines, in, around, under and had
>attatched them folded against one another...there were not even
>distinguishable as intestines, instead it appeared as ONE mass covered
>in adhesions. Yet, my only pain was in the area of that stationary
>attatchment site! In my two prevouse adhesional lysis operative reports,
>I also had ONE stationary attatchment site each time...that was
>representative of where I experineced my pain! It had been five years
>since my last adhesional lysis and the April 99 one, and I experinced
>such severe pain that I was rendered all but totally disabled. Could
>NOT sit in a chair or vehicle, could NOT turn side to side as I woke
>with pain even after taking high doses of pian sleep meds, my pain was
>constant..and my WBC was elevated, I was on 15 - 20 pills a day....and
>never for one minute of one day did I NOT have pain! I had ONE
>adhesional atatchment that caused all that pain..ONE! That was my
>experience, but in the studies of others adhesionalysis operative
>reports, and a discription of their pain areas, it was always in the
>area of a stationary attatchment site. One can draw their own
>conclusions, one can study thier own op. reports, and one can also have
>a WBC drawn, but this has not only been my experince, it is based on a
>number of study's of operative reports...and no one else has come up
>with anything better yet as for the pain! But it is known that not all
>adhesions cause pain...thank-GOD she has been spared, Pete! Look at the
>study's that have been done through Interceed as to adhesion pain and
>the % of adhesions found in surgery's.....95% of all abdominal/pelivic
>surgery's result in adhesion formation, yet not everyone of those
>experinced any pain. My son works in a pathology dept, he performs
>autopsy's all the time and states that he is continuously seeing
>adhesions in the abdominla/pelivic cavity, on the heart around the
>lungs..all the time! ...
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