an ever increasing waist line...
From: dorothy (dmmoran@hotmail.com)
Sun Apr 17 12:06:39 2011
Hi all! I have had 3 small bowel obstructions in 27 mos. It all started in
Dec. 08 when I had a ruptured appendix, but it took the hospital THREE
weeks to diagnose, well they diagnosed it by doing exploratory surgery.
Praise God that the appendix somehow took a B-line and settled in a lump in
my groin, otherwise it would have secreted toxins and I would've died of
sepsis. BUT the situation caused a secondary SBO, and the surgery was an
ordeal -- the abdominal organs had begun to fuse together and so had to be
separated. The surgeon at the time said with the amount of trauma that
occurred, it was very likely I would have tons of adhesions.
So in May '09 I had another full SBO & surgery due to the adhesions. I made
it all the way till Feb '11 before having the 3rd full SBO & surgery.
Each time I have surgery it seems to me that my abdominal area gets bigger
and bigger. I am a skinny 50 yr old woman, with skinny arms and legs, but a
tummy that makes me look 5-6 mos. pregnant.
Is this typical of abdominal adhesions???? Do any of you have the same
thing?
I am taking Serracel (serrapeptase, the enzyme) to see if that can help
reduce the adhesions, been doing it for 3 weeks.
Many thanks,
--
dorothy