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Reply to "Anyone with chronic upper left abdominal pain?"

No, adhesions really do not show up on any imaging. What can show up is what affect they may have, like distended loops of bowel from obstruction. Otherwise, they are diagnosed by ruling out everything else. The only way to "see" them is by the naked eye or laparoscope. Of course, since they are caused by surgery, and you need surgery to release them, the risk of surgery is that of causing more adhesions in the process. That is why they only do surgery in dire situations as a last resort.

They now think that sometimes nerves get entrapped within the adhesion tissue, and that is why some people have terrible pain from them, even without obstructive symptoms, when other people are not bothered at all by them. Anyone who has had abdominal surgery has adhesions, but some more than others.

If you pile IPS on top of adhesion pain, it is a real mess... because surgery will not cure the IPS.

Jan Smiler
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