New to the Forum- need advice!

From: Kirsten (krichter0903@gmail.com)
Tue May 9 21:35:23 2006


I've spent the last 3 months and a lot of money going in cirles, or so it feels. I had surgery for a bowel obstruction (that wasn't one)when I was only 6 weeks old. (30 years ago.)I have a nasty, huge scar that has gotten deeper with age. I haven't had problems for most of my life, except for digesting certain foods, until a few months ago. I've been diagnosed with a lot of things including adhesions but they "aren't what we consider severe, so they shouldn't be causing this pain".

The pain is intermittent (thank goodness...I feel for the people who have chronic pain) and I've had every test done because it CAN'T be the adhesions! Xray, CT scan, ultrasound, colonoscopy, endoscopy, blood tests, small bowel follow-through with contrast, etc.

My primary doctor believes that this pain could be from adhesions....the surgeon (who's sent me away twice now, the first time saying it was just constipation; the second sending me to a gastroenterologist) keeps testing me for other things.

Should I see a different surgeon? Should I just push him to do the surgery?

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Kirsten
Portland, Oregon

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