I have had My jpouch for 34 years! Mat the site of my bag in my belly there is a wad of scar tissue like a baseball! Sometimes my small bowel gets stuck under the tissue. It is painful! I must massage and use meds and a hot water bottle to get it back to normal. Anyone have a surgery to because of this problem? Thanks
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I think the times I have had blockages (2 times), it is due to scar tissue. One was at the site of where the ostomy bag was and the other, I think, was at the site of the drainage bag. My scar tissue certainly isn't as big or noticeable as yours. Sounds like you will need to do massage quite often. But at least you know right where to do it!!! You seem to have figured out what helps best for it, so that is good.
I had surgery to release a big adhesion a couple of months ago. I may be dealing with another adhesion. It’s an outpatient procedure. It took awhile to recover. As long as your bowels aren’t disrupted, you probably can continue to do what you are doing.
Surgeons are not too cooperative about adhesion surgery as that surgery it's self can cause adhesions. Maybe since it is in that one identifiable place your surgeon would be willing to operate.
I had abdominal operations where my adhesions were lysed during surgeries for other things and it really helped.
