I have an update. Since my last obstruction I have been diagnosed with Small Bowel Cancer. Finally a reason for my problems. Oddest of all is that an exploratory surgery 3 weeks ago found no adhesions! Today I will have a resection of the malignant part of the jejunun portion of the small intestine. Life really keeps me on my toes!

So sorry to hear you have Cancer. Hope your treatment goes well and you feel better soon. Take care Lynn

@ginpene05 I'm so sorry to hear of your cancer diagnosis, but I sense you are relieved to find an answer to your problems. Will you let us know how you are doing after you've recovered from your surgery? Teresa

Hello, I am new to this discussion. I am not new to bowel obstructions from abdominal surgury in 2005. I have had small intestinal blockage several times in the last 12+ years since my original surgury. I have been hospitalized 4 times over the years and had numerours blockages that I have been able to deal with on my own by stopping consumption of food and liquid and then slowly introducing liquids and then soft food. However, this fall I have had numerous obstructions and it has been an almost weekly occurance. I was mostly good for a lenth of 6 weeks on soups and chili, scrambled eggs, smoothies and such. 6 days ago I had another episode. I have been unable to bring soft foods or even liquids into my diet without extremely small portions over a period of time. I am losing hope. I have tried to deal with this naturally, with diet and excersice. I would like to know more about other options as I am losing ground as it the obstruction is getting worse. Have there been any advancements in surgical proceedures that are having good results? Other natural options that others have found useful? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks

Hello,
I went through over 35 attacks and 3 hospital stays from September 2013 until this July 2017. I suffered terribly. I was getting week long attacks almost every month the last year. I saw many doctors before this. I was told that basically, I had to live with it. I should go to the emergency room and get the NG tube when needed. I finally found a doctor in NYC. He does laparoscopic GI surgery only. He is part of a group. I have no idea where you live. I also going to say he doesn't take insurance, but if you have a PPO you should get at least half back. He took out four feet of small intestine and a small amount of large. I had radiation therapy in 2003. It was damage called radiation enteritis. I admit the recovery from the surgery is long. I am 5 months past and I am having some "bathroom issues". The first six weeks after surgery are not the most fun you can have! However, to date, I have not had an attack. Please feel free to respond if you want more information.

Well, yesterday I had my last treatment of 6 at 3 week intervals for Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. If the PET scan in January is benign the doc will follow me every 3 months. No more obstructions, so that is good, but now I have to worry about reoccurrences. Good luck to everybody else with GI problems.

All I can suggest is that you have CATT and/or MRI to search for the cause of the obstructions. After 5 obstructions in 5 months with hospitalization, I was diagnosed with a mass in the small intestine. It was resected, and the pathology showed Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Make sure you don't have a mass that is holding up things. Good luck.

I had Non Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2003! It was not a mass in my small intestine, it was vaginal. It happened that the radiation got me 11 years later. I wish you health and good luck. Did you have chemo, retuxan and radiation?

In 2005 my dad and I took a trip to New Zealand for 16 days. Upon returning home, my stomach didn't feel right. i thought Maybe I was hungry, so I ate more. Later that night I passed out from the pain and was rushed to the ER at Mayo In Rochester MN. I was vomiting bile and it extreeme pain. You all know the drill... NG tube and hospital stay. They did full regimin of testing. I had never had surgury before so they concluded with the obstruction that it was likely a tumor. I am a farmer and I had cows that would begin calving in 6 weeks in addition to all the other work so I chose to do the surgury soon rather than take a chance on waiting and having another episode during my busy season. They did the surgury pulling out all my small intestines out and running their fingers through it trying to find a tumor but there was none. I was the 5% odds of no tumor. However that was the biginning of my troubles. I have been in the ER for help 4 times but have had many, many occurances since. The last year has been the worst and it is getting much worse now. As soon as I figure out what is happening I stop eating and drinking. Then begin with liquids. I have survived this way for almost 13 years. Last spring I passed out agian from the pain and my wife called 911 because I was unresponsive for quite awhile. Vomiting occurs when it is bad but usually I don't. I have tried some natural options but they take time or may not work at all so i am losing hope of any alternatives to surgury, but am still open to hearing what is out there. I have been on serrapeptase which is supposed to eat up non living proteins in the body(scar tissue) eating foods that are not inflamatory (breads, grains) and keeping some movement in everyday as sitting may be bad. I eat mostly chili and soups, other soft foods, but I am not perfect and seem to have a pulling in my abdomen often. If this does not get better I think I would like to try some invasive proceedure if there was a good prognosis. I would like to learn more. Thanks all.

I got R-CHOP after the surgery. np radiation. They say I should be cured. We'll see.