Re: lysis verses excise

From: Jaynie Jarvis (hipjaynie@webtv.net)
Sat Nov 18 11:37:41 2000


At Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Kate Murphy wrote: >
>On 15 Nov 2000, at 10:34, Jaynie Jarvis wrote:
>>I talked to him today because I think I have a
>> blockage. If you don't have a temp. and extreme nausea I guess you
>> don't have a blockage ? What do you think girls and boys. I have very
>> bad pain in my right side and diahrea. It really hurts. I can't do
>> anything. He said my intestines were stuck everywhere and to each other
>> and I had a kink.
>
>Could well be a partial blockage -- diarrhea is allowing some
>material through, but the intestines themselves may be dilated.
>
>A CT-scan or a small bowel followthrough upper GI series can
>show partial blockage. Complete blockage usually involves severe
>pain and extreme vomiting.
>
>Many of these partial blockages will resolve themselves but may re-
>form. If you think you are getting them, be super careful with what
>you are eating.
>
>Another possibility for treating blockage is a NG tube -- this gives
>the bowel time to rest and the inflammation to go down.
>
>Surgery can help -- for about as long as it takes for new adhesion
>to form. I had surgery for partial blockage in June, complete
>blockage in August, and have new pain and signs of difficulty now.
>Surgery included all the fancy stuff to avoid new adhesions and
>removal of lots of badly scarred bowel.
>
>I am treating myself with careful eating, ibuprofen three times a day
>for inflammation, and lots of water. I am very serious about
>avoiding additional surgery or complete blockage again. It is NO
>FUN at all, including an NG tube in the ER in the middle of the
>night.
>
>Kate
>
>--
>Kate Murphy
>katemm@mindspring.com
>

Kate, you got me scared now! I told my husband last year that bowel problems was next or me. Then loosing part of y owel. I wasn't sure if it just would die off or from scare tissue. Does it die off from scar tissue not letting enough blood to the area? What is a NG ? I think I can guess what the other is. I once had a barium enema and it hurt horribly and showed nothing. I will never if my life depended on it have another.Tanks Jaynie


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