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small bowel seriesFrom: Christine (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed Dec 30 06:19:49 1998
It is usually the small bowel that obstructs because it is smaller than the large bowel. HOwever, in my case, at the second lap my large bowel (actually the sigmoid colon, which is the part that goes through your pelvis) had kinked and was pulled to the right (it is in the left pelvis) I'm not sure that if they would have gone in to fix this problem if I hadn't been having pain. They went in thinking it was the same problem I had with the small bowel. Once they were in there I guess they figured they better try and fix the kink in the large bowel. As one of Toni's doctors said, you don't have to worry if it's the large bowel as far as adhesions causing obstruction are concerned but I would think they could still cause pain. (as they seemed to have in my case.) However, if the transverse colon was lying in the pelvis instead of up where it belongs, I would think barium in it would show it was in the wrong place! This is why I asked why Toni's doctors hadn't done a barium enema. Maybe this is why they are ordering a CT Scan. You usually have to drink something for that also-it's called Gastrograffin. Looks like punch. Sometimes they do the CT Scan without this contrast. I don't know what makes them do it one way or the other. Toni, just because your pain is similar to what you had last time does not mean it is the same problem. This is why they are probably doing these tests. I had the same exact pain before both laps (I would have bet my life it was the same problem) After the first lap I was completely pain free so it wasn't a case that they just didn't fix the problem the first time and it was the same thing causing the pain all along. The second lap showed the problem was in a different area that time. The first adhesion on the small intestine had not occured again and had healed very nicely. It felt EXACTLY the same to me. I think pain in the pelvis bounces all around, much of it is referred to the lower right side. Chris S.
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