WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for October, 1999: Re: Pelvic adhesions-Kate

Re: Pelvic adhesions-Kate

From: Christine (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 07:41:41 -0500 (CDT)

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At Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Kate. wrote: >
>Peggy,
>Well to put it midly, you have been through hell. I too am an adhesion
>sufferer and have been for the past two years. I am only 26 years old
>and mine have resulted from a burst appendix, which caused peritonitis,
>a bowel abcess and huge pelvic abcess. I am also a registered nurse and
>work in the OR. Even though I am not a doctor, my advice to you is to
>NOT have another laparoscopy. I have been told repeatedly by many
>doctors and know thorough experience that removing adhesions only causes
>them to grow back. I live with daily pain, but manage it with a gym
>workout and stretches, hot packs and pain killers. Without the gym, I
>am in terrible pain. Like you, I have had all those tests, only to be
>told "it's just adhesions". People who say this, have NO idea.
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>--
>Kate.
>RN, B.Nursing, Certificate Perioperative Nursing.
>

I would like to comment on the statement that Kate has made here. While it is true that in some cases, more surgery does cause more adhesions, this is not always true. I had two laparoscopies. The first surgeon only removed one adhesion on my small bowel, thinking that was causing my problem. He left the other adhesions around the sigmoid colon because he thought they would not bother me as they had been there awhile. When the pain returned two months after the first laparscopy we all thought that the first adhesion had returned. (same pain, same location) So another surgeon repeated the lap 6 months later and surprise! The first adhesion had not reformed, nor had new adhesions formed. This surgeon tackled the adhesions around the sigmoid colon. I still have pain :<( but it is appearing more and more that it may never had anything to do with the adhesions. I would undergo another laparoscopy just to see if these adhesions have returned to be able to say with certainty that more surgery does not *necessarily* cause more adhesions but from the experience I had I would say it is true.

Chris S.

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