Re: Adhesions Causing Failed Colonoscopy
From: Ms Lee (leenoga@cfl.rr.com)
Thu Jul 15 22:39:39 2004
At Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Mary wrote:
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>Have any of you with adhesions had a failed colonoscopy because of them.
>.
Yes, I did and was told never to have another again because the
procedure risks perforating the bowel because the adhesions have the
boewel frozen in plave. I had to have the barium enema as well and it
showed nothing. I had a CT scan and it showed nothing. I had an upper
GI and it showed I had an enterocolonic fistula [a hole between small
intestine communicating into large intestine from adhesions]. They
found this first and all other tests to follow were negative and we lost
the value of colonoscopy.
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