Adhesion Symptoms - - - Please share the symptoms you are having.
From: Helen Dynda (olddad66@runestone.net)
Thu Feb 24 13:19:25 2000
Someone has asked me to share the symptoms that I have as a result of
adhesions. I was diagnosed in 1997 as having massive adhesions
attaching my omentum to my abdominal wall...at the site of my laparotomy
incisional scar - 7 inches down and 4 inches across.
Near the end of the videotape of my 1997 surgery, I noticed that the
surgeon had lysed (cut) into an adhesion that had a blood vessel running
through it. So I am not sure if this bleeder has caused de novo
adhesions to develop beyond my abdomen and omentum or not. I assume
that the bleeding into the pelvis could cause further adhesions to
develop; but where or when, I do not know.
[] These are the symptoms I experience on a daily basis:
* A constant burning sensation which radiates from my central abdomen
out to each hip. I feel the most pain in my central abdomen; and that
is to be expected because of the re-attachment of massive adhesions,
which were lysed (cut) in 1997.
* When I am sitting, my pain is at its worst. Jaynie told of her
session with Dr. Barbara Levy - that Dr. Levy believes that lax pelvic
muscles are her problem. So I sometimes wonder if my abdominal or
pelvic muscles might be increasing my sensation of pain as well.
* Reclining and walking tend to lessen my sensation of pain. I know
that this could be explained as being the result of endorphins (the
body's natural morphine) at work!
* I am not experiencing the severe pain and constipation so many of you
are. I have never had a bowel obstruction; so I do not think that my
bowels are involved.
* The last couple of days I have been experiencing increased pain as the
result of either a bladder infection or possible adhesion-involvement
with my bladder. This problem is affecting my energy level.
* I have not had backaches; nor have I had pain or numbness involving my
legs. I have searched my brain to come up with this description of how
adhesions are affecting me - and right now I cannot think of any other
descriptive terms to use.
* Nothing has been said here regarding how living with the chronic pain
of adhesions has affected the rest of my life - relationships, etc. This
can be a topic for another time.
PLEASE SHARE THE SYMPTOMS YOU ARE EXPERIENCING AS A RESULT OF ADHESIONS!
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