Re: Advice needed
From: Marla (onery1@soltec.net)
Sun Jun 25 17:09:28 2000
Hi Kathie - First let me say that I am not in the medical profession and all
of this is relatively new to me also. I would like to give you a couple of
URL's that I have found helpful in getting me familiar with some of the
terminology and procdures. This one
http://matweb.hcuge.ch/matweb/El_Mowafi/Pelvic_adhesions.htm
is very lengthy and technical. I waded through the best I could though and
now (after about 5 months of research) most of it is making sense to me. But
I found out the hard way the importance of becoming familiar with this terms
and concepts.
I know it seems like a catch-22 situation given that surgery is the only way
to get rid of adhesions and what also causes them. The most important thing
you can do as a patient is find a doctor who is educated in adhesions. I
simply assumed mine was and it has cost me dearly. Once you are familiar
with some of this lingo and you talk to your doctor (or if you are
interviewing, talk to his nurse) and ask questions about whether or not s/he
has had experience using barriers or gels and what brand s/he prefers; what
precautionary measures are taken in the operating room to reduce the chance
of glove powder residue; and what kind of solution s/he uses for rinsing the
area after the procedure is done you will have them so flabbergasted they
will either welcome you with open arms because you are an educated patient
or they will fumble around trying to fake answers when you will know to RUN
not walk to the yellow pages. Whew, it was hard getting that all out in one
breath.
The most important thing right now is your concern about a possible
obstruction. Take a look at this
http://soltec.net/~onery1/obstruction.html
if you haven't already and see if this situation applies to you. An
obstruction can quickly become a life threatening situation. I don't mean to
scare you and I'm hoping that once you have read them through you will have
better handle on your particular situation. There is more information and
links at my web site
http://www.soltec.net/~onery1
Blessings
Marla
PS - to answer your original question (got a bit side tracked didn't I) Yes,
your current problem with BM's, bloating and rt lower quadrant pain could be
due to adhesion growth. IMO
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathie <kathlyn.gadd@virgin.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
Date: Sunday, June 25, 2000 2:21 PM
Subject: Advice needed
>I had a C section 14 years ago. 10 years ago, after trying for another
>baby for two+ years, I was referred to a gynae who did a laporoscopy and
>told me that I had extensive adhesions from the C-section - so bad they
>couldn't see anything but suspected that this was the cause of my
>fertility problems. They told me that they would need to perform a
>hysterosalpingogram (sp!) to confirm this and I was then offered surgery
>to remove the adhesions. However the hysterosalpingogram seemed to have
>cleared the fallopian obstruction as I found out I had had become
>pregnant just 3 weeks before the surgery was scheduled and so it was
>cancelled. I had no further problems until about three years ago when I
>started getting what was diagnosed as colitis (bloating, abdominal pain
>etc) I am now having virtually continuous rt sided low pelvic pain -
>like some one is pulling at my insides and I have begun to have episodes
>of severe abdominal pain with constipation (the last bout lasted 24hrs
>without stopping and had me virtually doubled over the whole time unable
>to eat, sleep or do anything). My questions are - given the long period
>between my original diagnosis and the start of these symptoms, are they
>likely to be caused by the adhesions and, if they are caused by
>adhesions, can anything be done -everything on your site seems to
>suggest treatment is unavailable/pointless??
>
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