Hi les, since you asked for “ any thoughts on surgery “ I will first say that each case is different. In my case, while hospitalized the doctor assigned to me cane in with my nurse who knew me from being my nurse for three days. She was standing behind to doctor who came in and without much emotion said to me: we think that this small bowel obstruction is do to an adhesion from your appendectomy but we don’t know for sure. We would like to do exploratory surgery but need your approval first. My nurse was shaking her head in the “ NO “ direction. So I told the doctor no not at this time. After the doctor was gone the nurse came back and told me why she was saying no. She told me that she has been following every aspect of my stay and since the doctor said they didn’t know for sure and it was “ exploratory surgery “ she suggested that I modify my diet and to keep a journal of what goes in and what comes out and take notes on the details of all things that might be telling. I thought that she made sense and that’s what I’ve been doing.
Today I’m going for an X-ray and ultrasound. That this is scheduled almost two weeks after the episode seems to not make sense but they tell me it doesn’t matter if I’m not having an attack.
I’m doing as much research before I agree to surgery. The research led me to this site