Adhesions affecting digestion and causing pain

Hello,
I am 39 years old female with a history of malrotation, bowel obstruction and adhesion. I had open surgery twice. I am suffering from chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea after each meal, and bloating. The only thing which relieved my symptoms is to fast or be on fluid diet and not to do any physical activity. I have been doing this for almost two years and half. I know it is adhesion as all my tests are normal. Does anyone have suggestions? Anyone has similar issue? I know that sooner or later I will need a surgery as it is getting worse but the doctors do not want to do any more surgery till I have bowel obstruction again. My symptoms are getting worse. No improvement at all. I am afraid that if the adhesion has not been resolved now it will cause lots of complications later such as ganagrene and it will be very difficult for me to recover completely.

Recently I had my gallbladder out due to gallstones, and during the surgery they discovered my gallbladder was covered in adhesions. All I’ve been told is they generally develop after a surgery. I had a c-section some years back and I’m wondering what the possibility is of having adhesions in my intestinal area. My abdominal area has become distended and nothing helps, I also get painful twinges.

Recently I had my gallbladder out due to gallstones, and during the surgery they discovered my gallbladder was covered in adhesions. All I’ve been told is they generally develop after a surgery. I had a c-section some years back and I’m wondering what the possibility is of having adhesions in my intestinal area. My abdominal area has become distended and nothing helps, I also get painful twinges.

Hello,
I am 39 years old female with a history of malrotation, bowel obstruction and adhesion. I had open surgery twice. I am suffering from chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea after each meal, and bloating. The only thing which relieved my symptoms is to fast or be on fluid diet and not to do any physical activity. I have been doing this for almost two years and half. I know it is adhesion as all my tests are normal. Does anyone have suggestions? Anyone has similar issue? I know that sooner or later I will need a surgery as it is getting worse but the doctors do not want to do any more surgery till I have bowel obstruction again. My symptoms are getting worse. No improvement at all. I am afraid that if the adhesion has not been resolved now it will cause lots of complications later such as ganagrene and it will be very difficult for me to recover completely.

I had surgery on my kidney and they said they saw adhesions on my cecum and mulitple dilated loops of bowel. What does this mean and what causes it. I had no prior surgery

Hello,
I am 39 years old female with a history of malrotation, bowel obstruction and adhesion. I had open surgery twice. I am suffering from chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea after each meal, and bloating. The only thing which relieved my symptoms is to fast or be on fluid diet and not to do any physical activity. I have been doing this for almost two years and half. I know it is adhesion as all my tests are normal. Does anyone have suggestions? Anyone has similar issue? I know that sooner or later I will need a surgery as it is getting worse but the doctors do not want to do any more surgery till I have bowel obstruction again. My symptoms are getting worse. No improvement at all. I am afraid that if the adhesion has not been resolved now it will cause lots of complications later such as ganagrene and it will be very difficult for me to recover completely.

Has anyone has pain from adhesions so bad that you black out? With opioids being restricted, and surgery not an option, what pain solutions has anyone tried. I have adhesions due to spinal fusion done 12/2023 and a small colon resection in 2020. Both surgeons play the blame game and the hospital I had used before thinks it's in my head as there is nothing visible. My pcp says I may never have an obstruction and the adhesion has not allowed me to work since 6/2024. I have switch to Mayo in hopes for a better answer. I manage the constipation with senna and am pretty regular in that area. I'm ready to leave the country to find an answer. We can't even be sure it's adhesions but the symptoms line up. The pain makes life unbearable.

Shelley, we kind of mirror each other. I had twins (2 boys) too via c-section, my c-section was quite large because one of the babies head was very stuck in the birth canal. My scar is fine but no matter how much weight I lose or exercise I do, I still have a gut that is rather firm not soft like fat. Before it only happened when I was constipated, over time, now it happens with regular bowl movement. I increasingly get a pulling sensation across the right side of my back, pain and a lower back ache. It would slowly go away. Now, it seems to last longer, is more intense and I get sharp pains in my gut. Colonoscopies have shown nothing but polyps that they removed.

My dr had to remove the adhesions in order to remove the gallbladder, in his words; “they were quite substantial”. I think the adhesions caught my dr off guard.

Recently I had my gallbladder out due to gallstones, and during the surgery they discovered my gallbladder was covered in adhesions. All I’ve been told is they generally develop after a surgery. I had a c-section some years back and I’m wondering what the possibility is of having adhesions in my intestinal area. My abdominal area has become distended and nothing helps, I also get painful twinges.

I had a total hysterectomy 25 yrs. ago followed by radiation for endometrial cancer. Had an appendectomy (not laparoscopic) with 4" cut 11 yrs. later. Now, several years later, I am diagnosed with IBS (mostly C). I talked to GI Dr. about the possibility of adhesions. He said that any effort to remove them surgically would likely result in more adhesions. I have a new GI Dr., and I asked him about visceral massage therapy to break up adhesions. He didn't know anything about it. It appears the medical community is clueless and doesn't want to deal with it. You would think they would prepare you with some post surgery methods to help prevent adhesions.