>----- Original Message -----
From: "Barb" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: Doctors Insisting Adhesions Wouldn't Cause My Bloating?
> I am so frustrated with the myriad of doctors I have seen. I am going
> to assume they know little about adhesions but when they are so
> insistent I start to worry that there might be something else wrong with
> me.
> I have a big mass of adhesions as well as my fallopian tube and ovary
> stuck to my bowel, which is also near - or adhesed - to the pelvic wall.
> The doctor says it is normal for the bowel to be near or adhesed to the
> pelvic wall? Is he correct? Sounds weird to me. Doctor also can't
> believe I am having as much bloating and discomfort with eating as I am
> having. Sometimes I only need a few bites of food and I bloat like a
> balloon and I can feel swelling in the area of the adhesions.
> Are these doctors all nuts? Doesn't it make sense that such a big glob
> of adhesions and organs stuck to a bowel would cause discomfort?
> Help
>