In my study's of adhesion disorder and adhesionalysis with reformed
adhesions, that 99% of adhesions will reform following surgery. Not all
adhesions are problamatic, do not cause pain. It is in MY opinion,
based on my own experience's of living with adhesion disorder and the
study of numorous adhesionalysis operative reports,including my own,
that the organs that are ment to be free floating, (like intestines,)
and those organs that are very sensative, ( ovarys, similar to the male
testes ) when adhered to a stationary part in the abdominal cavity like
the peritoneum ( inner abdominal wall )are the cause of the adhesional
pain. When you understand that the movement of the intestines when a
person elects to sit in a straight chair, for example, the intestines
are ment to move upwards and to the back so that they are not bunched in
the lower abdominal cavity as you are sitting. When the intestines are
attatched to a stationary part of the cavity, they do not move, thus
causing a pulling on the adhesion attatchment sites on the organs. This
pulling causes aggitation at those sites, thus creating inflamation at
the sites as well. The body reacts to inflamation with pain signals,
thus our pain! Inflamation also cause the white blood cells to be
elevated, that is a normal response to inflamation by the body. I
beleive that if every adhesion disorder patients presented to their Dr.
for a WBC count, it would be elevated...that is also why it is
importanat to be on anti inflamitory medciations ( or something ) that
will help decrease that inflamation and hopefull reduce the pain some.
Because we are constantly moving, we are constantly causing that
aggitation, thus chronic pain from adhesions that are attatched. In my
adhesionalysis of April 22, 1999 there was ONE attatchment site where
the right outterside of my lower sigmoid colon was was turned completely
over upside down acrossed my cavity and attatched to LEFT side of my
lower peritoneum. One stationary attatchment. There were also dense
adhesions throughout all of my intestines, in, around, under and had
attatched them folded against one another...there were not even
distinguishable as intestines, instead it appeared as ONE mass covered
in adhesions. Yet, my only pain was in the area of that stationary
attatchment site! In my two prevouse adhesional lysis operative reports,
I also had ONE stationary attatchment site each time...that was
representative of where I experineced my pain! It had been five years
since my last adhesional lysis and the April 99 one, and I experinced
such severe pain that I was rendered all but totally disabled. Could
NOT sit in a chair or vehicle, could NOT turn side to side as I woke
with pain even after taking high doses of pian sleep meds, my pain was
constant..and my WBC was elevated, I was on 15 - 20 pills a day....and
never for one minute of one day did I NOT have pain! I had ONE
adhesional atatchment that caused all that pain..ONE! That was my
experience, but in the studies of others adhesionalysis operative
reports, and a discription of their pain areas, it was always in the
area of a stationary attatchment site. One can draw their own
conclusions, one can study thier own op. reports, and one can also have
a WBC drawn, but this has not only been my experince, it is based on a
number of study's of operative reports...and no one else has come up
with anything better yet as for the pain! But it is known that not all
adhesions cause pain...thank-GOD she has been spared, Pete! Look at the
study's that have been done through Interceed as to adhesion pain and
the % of adhesions found in surgery's.....95% of all abdominal/pelivic
surgery's result in adhesion formation, yet not everyone of those
experinced any pain. My son works in a pathology dept, he performs
autopsy's all the time and states that he is continuously seeing
adhesions in the abdominla/pelivic cavity, on the heart around the
lungs..all the time! ...