Re: Help ! my mom has adhesions in her colon. Dont understand.

From: Sally Grigg (lostcst@mcn.org)
Tue Nov 20 14:32:06 2001


I don't understand either. She may have adhesions in or outside of her colon. But, please don't panic, you need to be strong for her. It's very difficult to see someone you love go through such medical trauma. There is a web site http://www.adhesions.org. Please go there and research everything you can. We'd love to have you come back to the board. Talk to you soon. Love, Sally

anonymous wrote:

> I pulled this site up this morning and found it very interesting..Maybe
> someone will be familiar with my Moms sitution and can offer some
> help..She went to the GI yest. asking for her colonoscopy ( every 2
> yrs). He stated that he never even did the one from 2 yrs. ago,
> because of all the scar tissue in her colon..couldnt get the scope
> up..She was fuming because he never ever told her or my dad the results
> of this..When she asked about why he never said anything, his response
> was that he had sent the info. to her Internest and she should have
> followed up.. ( do I see law suit,for negligence?) Im sure the
> internest will be not real happy when she hears about this..Anyways. The
> reason I am writing is I just dont understand how scar tissue gets into
> the colon..Or is he saying the adhesions are from outside of the bowel
> and have capsulate the colon?She is petrified, lots of colon cancer in
> her family and has to get a Barium test done in a couple weeks, since
> they cant do the colonoscopy. She is diabetic, has mitral valve
> prolapse..Shes not been well lately with her bowel movements.she breaks
> out in a horrible sweat at times when shes going.. Im pretty good on
> picking up new information, but this one is just beyond my scope of
> things I am familiar with.. Any information would be greatly
> appriciated.. thank you very much.. Linda
>


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