>----- Original Message -----
From: "toni welsh" <twelsh1@hotmail.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: INTESTINAL ADHESIONS..........Helpful Suggestions......for
Colette
> At Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Roni Rospert wrote:
> >
> >>I have taken beef out of my diet a while ago, and the drs do not believe
> >>it bothers me. When did you know your bowels were obstructed? The drs
> >>think I have had partial obstructions, when it comes on suddenly, I get
> >>nausea, and the stomach gets no gas through. Like yesterday I felt that
> >>they had to be PARTIALLY blocked. I CAN FEEL IT! But they tell me as
> >>long as I am not vomiting, do not worry>
> >>I too do not want a emergency surgery, and be at the mercy of ANY
> >>surgeons.
> >>
> >>TOni
> >
> >Hi Toni, Thanks for sending the dietary information. Although it
> >doesn't all pertain to me - I have severe diahrea, partially controlled
> >by Cholestid. I sure don't want to have another obstruction and would
> >like to know how to prevent one.
> >
> >I just returned from the surgeon, he removed the staples and we had
> >quite a talk. He said all adhesions are not bad, he did not remove the
> >ones that have my bowels cemented together in a way that they cannot get
> >caught again, and he says that my best hope is that my abdomen will fill
> >up with adhesions that will hold my bowel in place. My severe irritable
> >bowel syndrome is probably the cause of the bowel becoming caught and
> >strangulated. So again I need better control of the IBS and the
> >cramping.
> >
> >All of my attacks were accompanied by much pain besides the distention
> >and nothing moving. Both the surgeon and the GI say not to wait very
> >long after realizing that I'm having an attack so that they can do the
> >NG tube and have it reverse or at least they can operate before it
> >strangulates and causes gangrene again. This surgery was much easier
> >because the didn't have to cut out a portion of my bowel.
> >
> >My advice to you is to watch the time - and severity. If nothing is
> >moving at all in 12 hours, gangrene will occur. If yours is only
> >partial but enough to cause you the symptoms that you describe, I really
> >don't know what you should do. It is so dangerous when it turns to
> >gangrene, just be sure that you are monitoring it carefully. I went to
> >the emergency room - it always happens when the doctor is unavailable.
> >
> >Could you get someone to teach you the normal bowel sounds and purchase
> >a stethoscope and listen to what is going on?
> >
> >Good luck, Roni
> >
> >--
> >I
> >
>
> Roni,
>
> I know what you mean about gangrene, it killed my mother, tha is why I
> get so scared when things are happening to me. My mom was very sick and
> her drs then tried to tell her she had the flu, and when she passed out
> in the bathroom, my father heard her moaning first, and she was trying
> to have a BM, and when she could not go, he ran to the store, to get
> enema, and when he got back she had passed out in the bathoom. When
> life squad got there she was out a LONG time.
>
> They took her to surgery, and they found bleeding ulcers, but he fond
> too that her bowel had died, and the gangrene had spread through out her
> little body, she was down to 80 lbs, and they tried to save her for
> days, but she had lost so much bowel she would have been on feeding tube
> fo r the rest of her life. She cam e out of surgery on life support,
> and it was 3 days I will never forget! We lost her, but I know if the
> drs would not hav e been so ignorant the weeks she was sick at home we
> may have her now.
>
> This is why I am so scared of the situation, even tho hers was
> different.
>
> Hope you are doing better, and will keep you in my prayers.
>
> Toni
>