Re: bowel obstructions
From: Alan (Eureka17@bigpond.com)
Thu Feb 21 19:40:57 2002
At Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Gloria wrote:
>
>I have been reading the forum and it is somehow comforting to know there
>are so many other people out there that are experiencing what I do. It
>makes me feel not so "whiny"....sometimes I think I must drive my family
>wild with all my ailments. I just got out of the hospital this morning
>after spending the last three days there being treated for a bowel
>obstruction. I left it till I was vomiting before I would go into
>emergency because I am so tired of the whole process. It seems I have
>to explain everything in detail each time I go in, and even then they
>tend to treat me like a druggie who is just looking for a "fix". This
>time I left it too long and ended up with the NG tube, the vomiting --
>everything. Thank God it resolved. This is the umpteenth time I have
>been treated for a bowel obstruction. I have had one corrective surgery
>for it.
>
>I am so depressed right now, as the doctors here all say there is
>NOTHING I can do about it. It is adhesion caused and there is nothing I
>can do to avoid it and it is only a matter of time before it strikes
>again. I can't even face the idea of having another episode, another NG
>tube, the pain. I feel so very helpless right now. I look into my
>future and I don't like what I see. Please, anyone else who suffers
>from bowel adhesions with chronic obstruction, if you have any advice
>for me -- anything that I should be doing, or should be asking the
>doctors to do...please let me know. I don't think I can face up to many
>more of these episodes.
>
>--
>Gloria
>
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Gloria
I was reading your note and thought I would just let you know that I suffer from the same, adhesion sml bowel obstruction.
The only thing I think I can help you with is the advise I got from my GP is that to advoid a high fiber diet.
I feel for you as I go throught the very same thing and when I turn up at the emergancy Dept I get the very same reaction as if I only turned up for a
fix like some junkie of the streets.I sat down and wrote a message to the director of emergancy medicine at the hospital explaining how I felt every time I turned up since then
I have had about 6 visits and the treatment I recieve when I go down there
is far better.
All the best
Alan