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Jan DollarModerator, RN, retired

From what you describe, this sounds like a small bowel obstruction, not too uncommon with intestinal surgery. It can be from adhesions (internal scarring), which typically can cause kinking of the bowel, and the obstruction you had.

The conservative treatment you had is best, because surgery can lead to more adhesions. Sometimes surgery is required, but it looks like you were lucky. There really is no way to predict if this will recur or not, and it generally has nothing to do with what you did or didn't eat, or what you did or didn't do. Just one of those "stuff happens" sort of things. The fluid could have been caused by the obstruction itself.

I think it is extremely unlikely you had a tear, because if you did, there would be peritonitis, perhaps abscesses, and believe it or not, a much more serious outcome than what you had, and you would not have been going home in a few days.

Jan

7/5/121:34 PM

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