Question:
Has anyone been diagnosed with adhesions?

I am 2 1/2 mths post-op rny and have started having alot of pain in the mid section of my abdomin (where I have a large incision). I went fo a CAT scan with contrast which was told didn't show anything substanial. My surgeon said I may have developed adhesions. Anyone else experience this? What exactly does it mean? I have another apointment with my surgeon on Friday but I have been inpain for more than a week. The pain stted suddenly and hasn't stopped. It feels like burnining,tearing type of pain when I stand, sit up straight or move in certain ways.I have evenyelld in my sleep at times just by roling over. It kinda feels like I had surgery all over again. I didn't lift anything or do anything strenuous. HELP    — pamela P. (posted on July 15, 2009)

July 16, 2009
This sounds very painful. Hope the surgeon will be able to fix it. An Adhesion is when the scar tissue developes and attaches. It can restrict movement and be very painful.
   — trible

July 16, 2009
I had adhesions back in 1995. It all started with horrible pain. I didn't eat, drink or do anything - kept taking time off work, etc. My PCP finally said we have to do exploratory surgery to find out what is going on. I ended up with 3 very large adhesions, and while they were in me, took my appendix, gall bladder and a small ovarian cyst. Basically, they cleaned me out of anything that could potentially be the cause of the pain/problem. After surgery all of the pain went away. What ever they took out, or maybe a combo of everything they took out - one will never know - but it cured me and I had no more pain and discomfort. Was back to work, etc. within a week of surgery. I wish you good luck. Good Luck!
   — jammerz

July 27, 2009
I started having pain on left side just to the side of my belly button. It was more like a dull, achy pain like after you've pulled a muscle. Had a sono and found that I had gallstones, so had to have GB removed. My surgeon checked out the other pain while he was in there (nothing had shown on sono) and he told me it was an adhesion that had wrapped around the tube to my port, but it wasn't restricting anything and shouldn't hinder my weight loss. Amazingly since they took out my GB that pain has pretty much went away from the adhesion.
   — nfocus74

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