WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 1999: Re: Adhesions Crowding Organs?

Re: Adhesions Crowding Organs?

From: Kim (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:43:53 -0600 (CST)

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At Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Anna wrote: >
>I have a question that hopefully someone out there can answer. I had a
>hysterectemy about a year ago. Ever since I have had problems with
>adhesions developing. My physcian says that even though they have went
>in and removed adhesions found between my intestines and my stomach
>wall. He beleives that there are adhesions behind my intestines that
>are crowding my intestines. He says that this crowding is what is
>causing me not to keep my food down, and severe abdominal pain. He has
>suggested that they take me back to surgery and make a large incision
>and lay my intestines out on a side table and clean adhesions out from
>underneath.
>
>I don't know anyone that has had problems with adhesions like this. Is
>it actually possible for the adhesions to be so far back that something
>like this would be needed? I have been told that we want to wait until I
>can no longer keep any solids down and start having difficulty with
>fluids staying down as well. Does this sound like a good idea to wait
>so long?
>
>Thank you for any light you can shed on this.
>
>--
>Anna Baker
>

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