At Sat, 14 Jul 2001, tinky wrote:
>
>Hey all,
>What a great board. I have what seems to be a common problem here.
>I have stage 4 endo, and tons of adhesions from previous surgeries.
>
>The only ones that bother me seem to be (I figure) around the right
>ovary area (whichis no longer there). Here is my question(s):
>
>In order to move my bowels each day, I have to get up, drink coffee and
>sit and relax for about an hour. if i miss the relaxing part, the day
>is shot, and after 2 days, I use a laxative (one of those intestine
>irritating types). I occasionaly have stools with darker parts which i
>figure might be old blood. This started after my last surgery, and i
>was on a low fiber diet for about 6 months till that mostly cleared
>up....
>
>Now this would be great (relatively speaking) if I did not have like a
>real life and could sit and relax for an hour each morning -- which I
>suppose i could do, but it sort of stinks to make it the central part of
>my life.
>
>SO: do you guys have experience with this sort of thing getting worse?
>I eat a fairly high fiber diet, which from reading this list today i
>realize might just be stupid.
>
>Am i looking down the barrell at an obstruction? ANy ideas? oh, and from
>my last surgery 3 years ago, i went thru menopause, so my endo is
>stable.
>
>thanks in advance for your thoughts and opinions!!!!!
>
>-tinky