I don't want you to take this the wrong way but maybe you should modify your diet - at least until there are other viable alternatives. If you know that certain foods affect you, then avoid them at all costs. I have problems with certain foods so I stopped eating them to reduce the amount of pain I experienced.
Have you tried fibercon or metamucil? Also, I have heard that mineral oil is a natural method. One spoonful in your juice - its odorless and you don't taste it.
You might also want to discuss with your doctor using an adhesion barrier is you choose to have surgery. These barriers reduce the reoccurrence of adhesions. You might also want to check into alternative medicine.
Hope this helps,
Sharonda
>From: jenjlee@asiaonline.net (Jennifer Lee)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@talk.obgyn.net>
>Subject: obstruction of small intestine - can't tolerate fibre
>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:51:39 -0500
>
>Hi everyone,
>I can't believe I have finally found this site after months and months
>of surfing the web for information. I don't know anyone else who
>suffers from this problem, and I'm hoping perhaps someone out there can
>identify with this:
>
>I am a thirty-year old female who underwent surgery as an infant, to
>remove an obstruction in my small intestine.
>Since then, I have suffered unbearably painful episodes of intestinal
>obstruction, which doctors have diagnosed as "adhesions of scar tissue."
>These episodes are characterized by vomiting, swelling and tenderness in
>the obstructed area, extreme, agonizing cramping which occurs every few
>minutes, and a feeling of bloatedness in the stomach. (probably from
>all the food that is not going through.) usually, when this happens, I
>have to go to hospital where they hook me up to an IV and shove a
>Nasogastral tube down my nose to "decompress" me. It typically takes
>about one to two weeks for the obstruction to clear on its own.
>
>I have noticed, (and no one doctor I have discussed this with believes
>this,) that these obstructions only occur when after I've eaten
>vegetables or fruits, especially those high in fibre, such as
>cauliflower, broccoli, celery and oranges where the pith has not be
>removed. I have this idea in my mind that the fibre from these foods
>gets "tangled" in the scar tissue in my small intestine, thus "blocking"
>and "restricting" the passage of other substances. This has never been
>diagnosed (because all x-rays and barium enemas and all those newfangled
>tests I've endured all declare that my intestines are "normal.") But
>surely, it cannot be pure coincidence that each time I eat something
>fibrous my intestines become obstructed.
>
>anyway, i have been told numerous times that there is no cure for my
>condition, as surgery to remove the scar tissue would only result in the
>formation of more. i am now at the end of my tether. doctors continue
>to tell me that nothing can be done, and nobody understands just how
>horrifically painful this condition is. i weigh only 95 pounds, even
>though i'm 5'4". people always assume I'm anorexic, when in fact, i
>have this rare condition i cannot even begin to explain.
>
>i hope someone out there can relate to this, and tell me if there's any
>hope.
>
>jennifer
>
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