It could definetly be adhesions - your symptoms are those of someone suffering from adhesions. Mine get worse with time but I suffer from endomitriosis which causing the growth of adhesions. I know how difficult it is to find a good dr. that understands adhesions and the pain that they cause but keep on trying. Maybe, look into finding an internist. I'm sorry that I wasn't much help. Good luck to you. Hang in there - I'm constantly reminding myself that even though at sometimes the pain is so unbelievably bad, that it could be worse. Dena
"IAS Admin (Tracy)" <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> wrote: Sender: nmgross@verizon.net (nm gross) Subject: do adhesions continue to grow and for how long?
I have had a strange pain in my body for about ten years now and also I have become somewhat constipated. I had a gall bladder removed about 35 yrs. ago and was wondering if what I am experiencing could be caused bu adhesions? I have a pain that is basically on my right side front and back at about waist high or maybe slightly higher. when I first became aware of the pain I was told by a doctor to get some physical therapy treatments, which I did-the pain was so bad during the phys. therapy that I almost passed out-even today I am careful not to move rapidly for fear of pain, and it is difficult for me to get out of bed. I was always regular but recently I have become somewhat constipated. I have had every kind of scan (mri, cat, etc)and have been checked for all kinds of possibilities-no one seems to know what it is that I am suffering from- one doctor thought it might be herpetic neuralgia, one doctor thought I may have tore a muscle, I went to maybe 7 different doctors and it seems that no one knows what it can be! my wife told me, when I noticed a cramp in my abdomen, that I may have adhesions. that was about 2 or 3 yrs after the surgery. could it all be due to adhesions? how long can they grow?