My poor mother has suffered for decades with bowel problems, all put
down to adhesions. She has had numerous scans and a sigmoid colectomy.
Nothing has helped and she says she can't go on much longer with the
pain. The latest scan used some form of radioactive material - a
proctoscintigraph. This has shown that the problem is not adhesions at
all, but part of the muscle just above the rectum has stopped working.
They will now do some more scans to identify if the muscle itself is
damaged, or the nerves that should be sending it the right signals. Has
anyone heard of such a thing, and whether it can be treated in any way
eg. by medication or surgery? If so it would provide a lifeline to my
mother, and perhaps should be considered by others suffering similar
problems.