Millie, my name is Raven, I don't post too often, but felt I needed to
address this one. You have describe what I feel all of the time! I have
adhesions at my sigmoid colon and they are slowly twisting it off. I only
have BM's every 4-5 days and then I go all day. Small amounts, very pencil
like. I try to keep my bowels as loose as possible. My adhesions were found
first during my hysterectomy. Since then I have had a barium enema which
showed a tortuous colon. I have also had a colonoscopy that was very
difficult to do. We know that my adhesions are there so thus it was a bit
easier to diagnose. I am having partial obstructions now. Both partial and
complete obstructions can be diagnosed by x-ray and lab work. I had an NG
tube once. I was asleep when they put it down. They are very uncomfortable,
but nothing compared to the discomfort of the nausea and vomiting! I have put
NG tubes down patients and it is a very uncomfortable procedure. Obstructions
are taken care of in a number of ways. Some have to be surgically undone,
some can be undone by decompressing the bowel (with the NG tube). Sometimes
meds can relax the colon enough that partial obstructions undo themselves,
this is what mine are doing. I hope I have answered all of your questions. If
not you can contact me at rnurseras@aol.com
I would find me a GI doctor if you don't already have one. I would also
encourage you to contact your family doc again and be very upfront with him.
Take him some info on adhesions. He will probably send you to a GI doc or a
surgeon.
Wishing you pain free days,
Raven Spurlin (Arkansas)
rnurseras@aol.com