Re: Bowel Problems - Can Anyone Relate?

From: Lynn Creacy (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Mon Oct 21 10:51:34 2002


At Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Barb wrote: >Barb,

Unfortunately, this does sound like adhesions. I feel the same way. I have no idea how bc is going to help with this problem though. Did your dr explain this to you? If they were adhered to the bowel was it because he didn't have enough time or exactly why couldn't get them unstuck??? Did you get a copy of the operative report and read it to see what happened? If not, I would start by doing that and researching every thing you can. The more you know the more empowered you are. Let me know what your dr says. Good luck in your search.

Lynn

>I am experiencing terrible swelling internally - like my intestines are
>swelling and I have bad bloating. I had a lap done in July and the
>doctor was not able to remove my left ovary and tube from my bowel -
>they are adhesed. He cleaned up as much as he could but was unable to
>remove them. So, they are still adhesed to my bowel. Now, particularly
>when I ovulate, the following starts: I get a bloating feeling, when I
>breathe in my intestines feel like they are selling and it is
>uncomfortable, when I eat I get a similar sensation, and I constantly
>feel like I have to have a bowel movement. This is very upsetting and
>scary. Of course they have done all the GI tests and given me all the
>drugs for irritable bowel, but none of that works and common sense would
>say that it wouldn't if this is due to adhesions.
>I can't find anyone who has experienced something like this and it makes
>me worry that there is something terrible going on. Can anyone here
>relate to this problem? My obgyn believes it is the adhesions and they
>want me to stay on the bc pill, but I don't know how that is supposed to
>solve this problem either.
>Please, would like to hear what you all think. Does this sound like
>something adhesions can do?
>Barb

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