Help for adhesions !
From: dparsa@pol.net
Mon Oct 16 14:21:55 2006
Dear Fellow Adhesion Sufferers:
Quickly: I had a ruptured appendix and peritonitis. Soon after I developed
a serious adhesion problem. Later I developed endometriosis and more
surgery: hysterectomy/lysis of adhesions.
Now that I'm getting older I've been hospitalized many times for small
bowel obstructions.
However, I have NOT been hospitalized in nearly two years--ever since I
discovered two NEW over the counter pills!!!
1) Digestive Advantage Lactose Intolerance
2) Digestive Advantage Gas Prevention.
Only one pill a day of each and these two little pills have changed my
life!! They can be found in most chain drug stores.
I cannot have a colonoscopy--my gastroenterologist has never been able to
get inside me with those instruments/scopes because the
adhesions make the intestines so fixed--"as in cement" he describes it.
I know what you mean about the bowels not working--it's partly because of
the pain medication. I love my doctor. He does not allow me to take meds
for pain. He says pain medications cause constipation, and that's the last
thing a person with adhesions needs.
I have learned that as we get close to 50 years old, and sometimes
earlier, our bodies often no longer produce the needed enzymes to digest
certain foods. Foods that were never a problem when we were young begin to
cause problems. We get gas and bloating and pain. Milk products or
certain legumes, broccoli, etc are gas formers as we get older, because
our bodies are no longer producing as much digestive enzymes as when we
were younger.
Most older people just get "gassy." But we people with adhesions get pain
because our peristalsis is working properly and the gas doesn't move
along. So it balloons up, we have pain and then obstruction if we aren't
careful.
Moreover, I have discovered that as we get older our bodies become
sluggish as the day progresses so that foods become more of a problem
later in the day. (Have you noticed how old people prefer to eat their
biggest meal at midday rather than in the evening? It's because at night
they don't digest their food as well, they get bloated, indigestion, etc.
All my obstructions have been at night--when my bowels were more "sluggish."
The pain is mostly from excess gas moving through your intestines. Stay
away from surgery. Get plenty of exercise. Take stool softeners
(DSS-Docusate Sodium)- generic brand is fine. Remember, surgery may
relieve the pain for a short while, but more adhesions will eventually
return with a vengence.
Hope that helps. ~ Kathleen in California
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