Original Message ----- From: "anonymous" <anonymous@medispecialty.com> To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:37 AM Subject: Post Appendectomy Adhesions?
> On Sunday, June 6, 1999, at 6:00 a.m. I awoke with the worst pain,
> vomiting and constimpation that I had ever experienced in my then 47
> years. The pain increased all day and that night I went to the
> emergency room where a doctor diagnosed me as having the flu and sent me
> home. Next morning, I went to my family doctor, who upon examining me,
> called the ambulance and sent me to the hospital with a diagnosis of
> appendicitis. At 8:00 p.m. a doctor finally decided I did indeed have
> an appendicitis and operated. Too late. By that time my appendix had
> already ruptured and I had peritonitis. One week later and I was sent
> home with visiting nurses coming twice daily to change my wound pads
> since theyleft my incision open. In February 2000 I again awoke with
> the same symptoms as before--only worse! This time I went to another
> hospital--diagnosis--bowel obstruction from adhesions. Now, I have
> developed a dull ache on my upper right side by my ribs. I have it
> every day. It is nothing that keeps me immobilized, but it is annoying
> and achy. Could this be adhesions? Can they "travel" up your side to
> your upper abdomen? Doctors just shrug and say nothing. If this is an
> adhesions sign, I will feel somewhat better since I am imagining all
> kinds of things that may have happened to me from the peritonitis.
> Thanks for your kind help.
>