WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 1997: !Re: Weird Question- Not Sure If Relative

!Re: Weird Question- Not Sure If Relative

From: Kelly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 2 May 1997 23:22:00 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 2 May 1997, Anne wrote: >
>Dear Docs,
>
>I'm not really sure if this is relevent to our forum or not but here
>goes...
>
>Last year before I had my two lap surgeries I was experiencing abdominal
>pain that at times was very acute. I would wake up numerous times in
>the middle of the with pains and general achiness in my lower abdomen
>and lower back. Several times towards the end I was having horrible
>nightmares about disembowelment and the like. They would wake me up and
>I would then realize that my abdomen was hurting again. My doc then
>scheduled the laps and got rid of adhesions and infections around my
>c-section site.
>
>The weird part??? The last month and a half I have been experiencing the
>same general type of pain I had before my surgeries; every day and
>especially at night. The last week I have been having the nightmares
>about horrible things happening to my guts. Is it possible the
>adhesions have grown back and my subconscious knows it? I know this is
>weird but I haven't had these nightmares since I had the pains last
>summer. Every thing else is fairly normal; My periods are a little long
>but other than that I feel I am in good health. Ever hear of this
>before? Or am I just a wee bit luny? Thanks Anne Nash

Anne

I for one do not think you are in the least bit loony. I think there is a strong mind-body connection that can tell us a lot if we can only learn to listen to it. Your body may well be telling you that you have recurrent adhesions.

The reason I KNOW you are not a nut case is because I have experienced the same thing -- when I was 11 I ruptured my spleen in an accident; after the original surgery I developed bad adhesions and bowel obstructions and had to have a second surgery a few months later, and then a third hospitalization a year later.. Every time I had a bowel obstruction I had a dream about rolling a huge boulder up hill; that was my clue I was going to be seeing my surgeon again real soon. I haven't had that dream -- or a bowel obstruction -- since college.

--
Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
S. Lake Tahoe, CA

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