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Oh gosh, congrats on finding treatable issues, and having them taken care of. My issues were different than yours, but here is my story. I had a radical hysterectomy along with radiation and chemo in 2001, due to uterine cancer. All good, but in 2017 I began having excruciating pains. It was found, with difficulty, that I had adhesions wrapped around the small colon, and I had a resection of about 7 to 8” Of the small intestine. Two years later, I am still dealing with diarrhea, sometimes gas pain that is overwhelming. But, I am ‘healthy’ and exercise, walk, and play tennis. I have to be able to ‘escape’ When in groups, due to gas. You will adjust - it is never ‘the same’, but you are alive!

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Same happened to me. I’m one month past 12 inches of sigmoid colon removed due to adhesions from my hysterectomy.
It’s been a rough recovery. My sigmoid colon was twisted and stuck to my side wall, I spent two years begging doctors to go in to see what’s going on and being dismissed. Eventually they did and an extensive 7 hour surgery was done. I’m now adjusting and worried I will have reoccurrence of adhesions. Did you? How are you now?
These were some of my adhesions.