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The anchoring from adhesions generally doesn’t release without surgery - the adhesions are permanent. Relief from the blockage comes when the intestine wiggles back into an unstressed position where the anchor point isn’t under much tension any more, or at least the intestinal lumen (opening) is no longer kinked. This can take widely varying amounts of time. Some people report that a contrast agent administered before an X-ray to examine the blockage clears up their blockage. I suspect that the heavy liquid may sometimes move the gut out of it’s troublesome squeeze. At that point the backed up intestinal contents can start to move again, but it can take a while to move that oversized wad of food through.

People tend to blame the last thing they ate, but without a narrowing from some cause food will pass through just fine. Folks with chronic narrowing may need to manage their diets carefully so nothing gets trapped.

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