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Re: adhesion surgery
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Thu Oct 9 11:00:51 2003
How are you now years later? Anyone pain free long term after adhesion
surgery?
Wondering if more surgery is worth it?
At Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Christine wrote:
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>Hi! I have been following the posts on adhesion surgery and thought my
>experiences might help someone. So many of the posts relate to the
>experiences I've had with endo and adhesions. I'm 48,besides endo, I
>had a hyst in 1986 (due to fibroids), Lupron tx in 1995, repeat Lupron
>tx in 1997, 2 laps in 1998. I have (had) a lot of adhesions from endo
>but they didn't cause too many problems until June 1997 when I had a
>sudden occurrence of mod severe lower abd pain. This became a chronic
>problem and several ultrasounds over the next few months were "negative"
>except for a few very small endometriomas.(too small to be causing so
>much pain according to my gyn) A 3 month trial of Lupron didn't do
>anything. (unlike the previous treatment) A GI consult and colonoscopy
>in Jan 1998 were negative. (much more likely that the pain was caused
>by gi disease in a woman my age) Laparoscopy (finally!) in March 1998
>showed that an adhesion, probably from the surgery in 86, had wrapped
>around the small bowel and partially obstructed it. (I had no bowel
>symptoms, just pain) I was pain free for 3 months and then the exact
>same pain returned. Thinking it was the same problem as we know
>adhesions often reform, I asked to consult a general surgeon, since this
>involved the small bowel. I thought a general surgeon might have a
>different technique working with bowels. He agreed to repeat the lap
>but only if the gyn observed. Everyone was surprised to learn that the
>adhesion the gyn fixed had not reformed (no barrier was used ), but this
>time the problem seemed to be caused by the adhesions (probably from
>endo) in the left pelvis. They had kinked my sigmoid colon and pulled
>it over to the right side of the abdomen. Why this happened after 20
>years is a mystery! These adhesions were released, no barrier was used
>because this surgeon feels that none of them work that well. He did use
>saline. I have just passed the 3 month point and am still relatively
>pain free although I can still tell all is not perfect in that area.
>Although it is still too early to know for sure I am cautiously
>optimistic that this last surgery was successful. I suspect, though,
>that the potential for problems is always there. Does anyone know any
>elderly ladies who have gone through this? I wonder how it all turns out
>in the end. Sorry this is so long, hope it encourages someone.
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Ketti@sbcglobal.net
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