Excess fat causing constipation?

I am Laura P and I had a bowel infarct last year in the bilio-pancreatic limb. There is no way to diagnosis this in advance. I had been having some pain in my left flank...above my hip joint but no one could find a problem. Was it this obstruction slowly happening? Maybe, or maybe it had nothing to do with it. I have mild constipation problems now (6.5 yrs out). I had a small BM before I went to the hospital (which must have been the lower part of my bowel) On the CAT scan and x-rays, they could see I was totally obstructed. I was vomiting then nothing but dry heaves...continuously. I had a feeling of "doom"...I thought I was dying, and I was. No pain medicine they gave me worked. I moaned continuously thinking to myself "shut up...you are disturbing everyone around you" but I couldn't. My oldest daughter, who lives in Seattle (I live in SW FL), who had a DS before me, researched on the internet and decided that I could no longer be "watched" and insisted on a surgical consult. He said he did not feel it could wait so they did emergency surgery...my middle daughter gave him a picture of my surgery before he operated. The next morning he came in and said, I have no idea which limb I removed 6 feet of. You were shocky and we were about to lose you. You will have to be checked down the road by someone to figure this out because you may become malnourished. I was in ICU and happy to be alive.

Long story short, the GI doc did a small bowel follow up about 3 months later. I was not in condition to have it any sooner. My transit time was normal and the bowel looked fine. The GI doctor and my surgeon (Dr. Antelmo in Brazil) decided it was from the bilio-pancreatic limb. I sent, via email, all of the x-rays taken. It happened from an adhesion. It happened 5.5 years to the day, of my DS surgery. I know it could happen again. It took me more than 6 months to get back to my normal weight. I could not exercise for 3 months and even then it was no pressure on my abdomen. At 6 months I got a hernia which I will someday, maybe, have repaired. I just hate to chance more adhesions. The only test that may help diagnose it is a small bowel follow through. I had had that done a year before and it was fine then.

Good luck.
Laura