WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 1998: Re: Is surgery to remove adhesions justifiable surgery?

Re: Is surgery to remove adhesions justifiable surgery?

From: CHRIS (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 17:44:37 -0500 (CDT)

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At Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Helen wrote: >
>I had a diagnostic laparotomy 11 months ago which revealed massive
>adhesions between the omentum and the abdominal wall (after a laparotomy
>many years earlier). No adhesion-barrier was used. After surgery, I
>experienced several days of feeling really good and like myself again.
>BUT then I started feeling pain again...which I am sure is the result of
>adhesions reforming. I have seen an internist at the Mayo Clinic, who
>said that he did not feel that this was an adequate surgical reason for
>doing another laparoscopic adhesiolysis. And yet I am in pain
>everyday...all day! My question is, " When adhesions reform after a
>diagnostic laparoscopy has been done, is there any medical reason why a
>person cannot have a repeat laparoscopy to try to eliminate them with
>the use of an adhesion-barrier? I was told that I would have to have
>some other medical problem that required surgery...that surgery could
>not be done for adhesions alone...that this would be unjustified
>surgery. I find this hard to believe since I know that
>adhesion-barriers are available and that second-look laparoscopy is also
>a possibilty. I hope that you will be able to help me make a decision
>as to my next possible step. Or do I just accept the advice of the one
>internist?

I too suffer from adhesions that cause me pain all the time and have seen many different doctors about the pain and the problems that i am having and all my doctor has told me that more surgery more adhesions. I know from what i have been though that doctors do not like to do surgery unless there is something going on, it took over a year and a half to get this surgery for pain and when they went in i had adhesions, now the doctors say i have pelvic adhesive disease. Do not give up and you should not just accept the advice of one doctor, I had seen alot of doctors before one could tell me why I was in so much pain.I wish you the best of luck.

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