Re: Conitnuation of Adhesion pain perception

From: Tina Shelby (tshelby@usit.net)
Fri Jul 9 21:41:53 1999


Bev and all -

I just wanted to tell you what my surgeon and pcp said was causing the pain from the adhesions. They said that in themselves - adhesions do not have nerve fibers to transmit a pain signal - but they do caus pain when they interfere with the organs normal function that they are attached to. In other words - if there are adhesions attached to the colon - they will interfere with normal colonic movement which causes the pain to originate from the colon - not the adhesions itself. Same with adhesions attached to the uterus/ovaries. Women will have pain with ovulation because the adhesions are interfering with the ovarys ability to release the egg etc. This also makes sense because of all of the pain that is involved with bowel movements and the menstral cycle.

Everyone take care - I truly believe that one day we will eventually overcome this debilitating condition.

Tina

At 12:03 PM 7/8/99 -0500, you wrote: >Having had long discussions with pathologist friends of mine as well as
>surgeons, it is perseved that the peritoneum will generate pain...but
>there doesn't appear to be pain pathways on the external intestines. I
>feel that this is a true perception as I did not experience anyother
>pain at any time throughout my 14 years with adhesion disorder. In my
>two previous adhesional lysis, I experienced pain always in the lower
>right quadrant..and in each of those operational reports, I have ONE
>attatchment to the peritoneum in that area! I ask you all to secure your
>own operative reports for your own study, to aclaimate yourself to the
>PROBABLE adhesion attatchment sites that you have, and then compare
>those sites to your pain area....this will give you a semblane of
>awareness of why you suffer the symptoms that you do. Keep in mind,
>each consecutive surgery might produce more adhesions, but you will
>probably be able to get a decent idea of your adhesional involvement.
>Bev
>


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