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Reply to "Adhesions and Laparoscopic surgery"

It's such a touch call.  I was in a very similar boat with chronic obstructions over an 18 months period...in and out of the hosptial.  Some that would would last a few hours and some up to a week.  A full obstruction that would not resolve on its own finally got me into surgery.  They removed 8 adhesion bands.  One had completely pinched the bowel off entirely.  So...if I would have gone in for elective surgery, the likely would have removed those 8 bands, which may have saved me from a very tough surgery landing me in the hospital for a month, however, surgery only forms more scar tissue and more adhesions and of course, it's surgery that you have to recover from.  It's kind of a gamble either way :/

I also want to add that my first surgery to remove the adhesions was lapro.  They missed an adhesion, the worst one, which was way down by my pouch. They could not see it with the lapro surgery.  I had a second, open surgery a week later (thus the complications and the month in the hospital).  I'm ALL for minimizing incisions, but just a note, that without being fully opened up, the surgeons won't be able to get the full picture of what's going on.

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