At Fri, 15 Feb 2002, anonymous wrote:
>
>I just had my "first" experience with adhesions a couple months ago at
>19. I was taken in for an appendectomy then the doctor saw that it was
>adhesions so i had a small-bowel resection instead. How long do
>adhesion usually take to cause problems because the only operation i had
>in that area was when i was almost 3 months old in 1983 to remove my
>ovary. i know since i was little i experienced pain in my stomach but
>since i grew-up with it there i didnt think anything of it. If it
>occured i just layed down and eventually it would go away, and my
>parents never realized it cause i learned to cope with it, it was always
>a part of me. I guess in my mind i thought it was kinda normal cause
>i've always lived with it but now i'm guessing it was probably caused by
>adhesions. I can feel that pain coming back again.
>
>Well that's all i got to say. I just felt the need to post something
>because i'm new at this as i've just learned what causes the pain and
>that there are others who also experience the same thing.
>
>steph