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Has anyone mentioned abdominal adhesions? Just recently diagnosed and found it has many many symptoms. I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/975793/

Discussion: Concerned husband desperate for answers

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Dec 6, 2023

I had a bowel obstruction following a botched internal hernia repair. I have also had several...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/840879/

Discussion: Reoccurring Bowel Obstructions due to adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 10, 2023

Thank you for your advice. My thyroid is fine, I hope! ; dr checks it every...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/681415/

Discussion: Small bowel obstruction has led me to fear of food

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Feb 16, 2022

Yes I had my appendix out a long time ago. I was wondering if adhesions from...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/322765/

Discussion: Removal of sigmoid colon due to diverticulitis: How to deal with pain?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 16, 2020

your welcome talk to your doc, mabe you do have some adhesions on the right side,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/322766/

Discussion: Removal of sigmoid colon due to diverticulitis: How to deal with pain?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 16, 2020

I had two C-sections many years ago which caused painful adhesions on my colon. After they...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/695079/

Discussion: Problem with Chronic constipation

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 1, 2022

I was looking them up and just really just started doing the circles with the heel...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/334661/

Discussion: Reoccurring Bowel Obstructions due to adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Feb 13, 2021

I'm sorry you're going through this too! Just a word of warning/advice. A few years ago...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/233587/

Discussion: Tips for managing chronic Small Bowel Obstructions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Aug 14, 2019

Sounds like me but, mine is adhesions CAUSED "tortuous colon" or they hit the spot I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/146046/

Discussion: Chronic small bowel obstruction from adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 9, 2019

Hello @nooral, I would like to add my welcome to Connect along with @heathertink1970 and others....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/884104/

Discussion: Abdominal adhesion

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 24, 2023

I am a Short Bowel Patient; I lost most of my small bowel after surgery to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/716666/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 11, 2022

I have similar pain from multiple abdominal surgeries. The last one I had took seven hours...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/817236/

Discussion: Chronic abdominal pain from extensive abdominal adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Feb 25, 2023

I don’t know if I have a hernia again. It feels that I do. In June...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/853843/

Discussion: Pain still 1yr and 4Mth post Colorectal Surgery

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 3, 2023

Hi. I’ve been suffering from right sided pain where my ribs are and upper abdominal pain...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/134770/

Discussion: Pain in old gallbladder surgery site

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Dec 17, 2018

In January I had my first bout with SBO.It was extremely painful and after a week...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/145897/

Discussion: Chronic small bowel obstruction from adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 6, 2017

Just had rectocele surgery... Supposedly causes no "discomfort" been tellin em n they been agreein for...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/146042/

Discussion: Chronic small bowel obstruction from adhesions

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 6, 2019

I took Xifaxan a few times. It perhaps worked for a few weeks. It appears to...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/841492/

Discussion: Xifaxan

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 11, 2023

My pain was on the left before the surgery too. I had several diverticulitis episodes as...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/322763/

Discussion: Removal of sigmoid colon due to diverticulitis: How to deal with pain?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 15, 2020

LavenderRaven my gall bladder surgery was done 11 years ago and I have exactly the same...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/134777/

Discussion: Pain in old gallbladder surgery site

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jan 28, 2020

Hi @jim70 I can understand your frustration. I would like to connect you with some other...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/609352/

Discussion: Slow transit constipation and surgery

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 16, 2021