At 12:38 PM 11/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>