Glad you found it helpful. Well, it seems there has been very little to no research done on the mesentery, let alone problems with it. Fortunately, it looks like that is changing, but that takes time. At least it's happening. I had never heard of MP until I came on this site, I started looking into the mesentery because of my twisted one :). Of course there are no studies at all on that. The mesentery is chock full of nerves and blood vessels so makes sense to me that it could be a source of pain/problems itself, and right now that is overlooked, unless you have MP where you have a mass (i.e something visible).

My current doc says my problem can't be the mesentery because some people have twisting/torsion and don't have pain or problems. As you said, there is no research on the issue, so do they really know? Maybe some people do. Or eventually do. He says they only worry if it gets bad enough to cause your small instestine to be blocked or inflamed, but maybe it could progress to that. Probably a lot of people (or docs) never even knew someone with pain had abnormalities in the mesentery because they probably don't look to it as a source of problems. So, while my doc doesn't think mine is contributing to my problems (he could be right, but since no cause can be found.. I'm going to continue looking into the mesentery, if nothing else, I'll learn something :).

I just read a fascinating case study ( I could put the link if anyone is interested). Interesting how I found it - I did a google search for one of my diagnoses: reactive fovealor hyperplasia (stomach) , and one of the first things that came up was a woman who had this, and turns out her problem was the 3 main vessels to the mesentery were blocked! So the origin of her problem was the mesentery.

Let me know what your specialist says!