I had bariatric surgery a little over a year ago. I have lost 230lbs and am doing great except for the adhesions. I was not aware that I would be one of the "lucky" ones that would develop adhesion problems after surgery. I have had two surgeries to correct them, contemplating a third in which they will also resect a portion of the small intestine (which does not really effect me because I do not use the majority of it anyway).
My thoughts are that if you already have adhesion pain, and you may or may not develop them following surgery (your bariatric surgeon will have to clean then up while they are in there), why not take a shot at it. It may leave you with the same pain you have now, but you will be much healthier at a lower weight.
This is just my opinion :)
Let me know if I can answer any questions about wls for you.
Mandy
At Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Kristi wrote:
>I have had adhesion surgery twice. The first time the doc had to cut
>big due to the size of the problem. That was Oct. of 2002. The second
>time was this past August and it was done laparoscopiclly.