Abdominal Adhesions, Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment.
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
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0:00 Introduction
1:34 Causes of Abdominal adhesions
2:23 Symptoms of Abdominal adhesions
3:23 Diagnosis of Abdominal adhesions
3:51 Treatment of Abdominal adhesions
Abdominal adhesions are bands of fibrous or scar-like tissue that forms between abdominal tissues and organs, especially after an abdominal surgical procedure.
• Abdominal adhesion begins to form within the first few days after surgery, but symptoms may not appear till after months or even years.
• Normally, internal tissues and organs are made up of slippery surfaces that keep them from sticking together and allow them to shift easily as the body moves.
• However, abdominal adhesions cause tissues and organs in the abdominal cavity to stick together.
• Abdominal adhesions might connect the loops of the intestines to each other, to the wall of the abdomen, or to nearby tissues.
• They can also pull the small and the large intestine out of place, causing an internal obstruction.
• Adhesions are normal surgical outcome, about 93% of people who have abdominal surgery develop an adhesion.
• The risk of abdominal adhesion is greater in people who have had operations on the lower abdomen and pelvis, including bowel and gynecological surgeries.
• Adhesions do not cause any problem, but when they do, they can partly or completely block or obstruct the intestines causing severe abdominal pain.
• Intestinal obstruction requires immediate medical attention.
My adhesions started when I was 12 when my appendix were ready to rupture. Had a hysterectomy at 21 due to adhesions. They totally destroyed everything but a small piece of my ovary was left so I would not go through menopause. I am 64. I still suffer from adhesions every day. I have had blockages, emergency surgery. 2 lysis of adhesions. Last major one was a huge Blood clot developed in my abdomen it was 8 inches long by 3 inches wide by 5 inches deep. The wound was left open so no stitches. They used a wound vac to close it up. It took 6 weeks of me going to the office for them to make sure it was closing correctly. That really hurt. I was told by my surgeon that they will only go in on emergency basis. My abdomen looks like a bomb went off adhesions everywhere. I have one of the most awesome pain doctors here in San Diego. Radio frequency ablation which burns the nerve that sends the pain message to the brain has really helped. I still have major issues with them of course er dr's don't see them on any test. I'm in 10 pain asking for help and they make me wait for hours. 4 hours later they give a shot and say go home. This is last year I lost 60 pounds in a year, no appetite, hurt to eat food, severe abdominal pain, flank pain, no test showed anything. I asked that they just look answer was no. You have to just live with this until it becomes a total blockage. They are gambling with my life. I have been for over 40 years. I finally got an urologist and he did everything including a nuclear study. Guess what there is a 50 percent blockage in my urethra. He was to clear that blockage so at least these major symptoms are gone. Adhesions will never be gone. Yes I have pain everyday. But I refuse to give it. I will fight. I do have a high tolerance for pain so I am lucky. I found moving helps. Sorry for the long story but want others to know that they are not alone in this fight. Blessings
Thank you for sharing. I am currently going through testing and the miscarriages started in 2007. Praise God I was able to conceive after OB doctors scraped my uterus and surrounding areas etc. But now I can’t eat without severe pain & nausea. I joked it was the best diet I ever had, but I had to quit my job, and I can barely do the stay at home mom jobs 😣🥺 I do everything I can with extreme exhaustion from not eating, or pain when I do!
Doctors can really, really suck! I will pray for complete and total healing for the both of us! 🙏🏼😘♥️ Also, for the doctors who are treating us, I also found a doctor recently who said, Yep, it’s likely adhesions. No big deal, I can help! Line what the heck?! I want to cry with joy! He’s the 6th or 7th consult and third GI Specialist. Finally!
Thanks 🙏
Lena, I am so sorry for the horrors you have gone through for decades. You are such a trooper and fighter. Thanks for sharing. Sending you prayers that there will be resolution for any problems that still persist. Amen.
Y’all are very brave to share your stories which sound very familiar.
I am a general and onco surgeon, and I can say the reason why they don’t want to operate is because there is high chance that after the surgery it will be worse than before, and it will definitely come back again, because we’ll surgery is one of the main causes of adhesions. My patients died from this last week, he had obstructive ileus, and all his small bowels in the upper abdomen were in a ball of adhesive material, we tried conservative treatment it didn’t work, we were finally forced to open up and do adhesiolysis, unfortunately on adhesiolysis the wall of the intestine somewhere deep in the ball of adhesions tore, and he got fecal peritonitis, and we had to reoperate and suture it up, and then put a Vacum sealing, then again there was another hole, so we did the same, and he died slowly, although he fough till the end, he died after 4 weeks. It was sad for us all, he was a warrior of a patient.
OMG ! This is absolutely INFORMATIVE.
I've had this 14 years....
They discovered it by accident .
We were all baffled as I had no previous surgery that caused it.
Best guess is gastric flu..which I had twice ...
This is a brilliant video.......very clear information.
Unfortunately mines so bad they wont open me again even to correct it all.
So not all patients can receive corrective surgery.... sadly...
Depends on how severe your adhesions are .
My thoughts ho out to all sufferers . 💚💚💚
This is a terrible condition to have ...
Life changing for some....
...and not all surgeons or doctors are sympathetic.
do you have pain all day or sometimes? I had this after appendectomy and it was terrible
@@dieglhix
Mines all day ..but gets worst if I'm eating ...or digesting good ...
Luckily I'm on strong opiates , so I'm spaced out or asleep most days .
Sadly it also effect my back , so I cant sit or stand for long .
I'm bedridden.
When I had orimorph ...morphine
I felt brilliant , like I could return to work.
But doctors took me off it , as it's too dangerous .
Sorry to hear you were in pain after appendicitis removal.
I'm hoping you recovered now.
The less they cut you up...the better.
They cut me right open and dug deep as I has life threatening cyst .
I was no longer the same again after surgery ...bowel, bladder stopped working properly etc...
I'm hoping yours will never get worst.
Did you get pain every day ?
@@morganjames5180 after appendectomy, I midly developed pain right after I was off the hospital, but 4th night I couldn't sleep, thought it was peritonitis and was admitted in emergency. Even intravenous tramadol wasn't able to keep me relaxed, waited for 16 hours to get in operating room. Finally recovered fully. So do you endure this pain the whole day?, I cannot imagine, I don't have words to say because mine was 8/10 in pain. How do you manage to be every day in that condition and jobless. I assume you have seen already different digestive surgeons and all had the same opinions? Your situation is an example I am convinced healthcare is the absolute most important thing in society, people don't value it until they lose the ability to live normally, or at least without pains... Most tax money should be in it already. Even higher education should be paid privately so even more public resources are put in healthcare
I'm the same can't operate again organs too close so afraid the will go into organs.
There isn't enough awareness of adhesions, and the pain they cause 😢
Very interesting,
Unfortunately I’ve been dealing with adhesion issues in my abdomen area since 2016 due to me getting shot and me needing surgery to have a bullet removed from abdominal area. I’ve had 3 major surgeries since then to remove adhesions and the whole process from start to finish is a complete nightmare. It’s like I live on pins and needles every day of my life now worrying about will it get so bad again to the point where I’ll need surgery again. I hope and pray one day that some type of medicine is invented where it will be able cure adhesions without requiring surgery. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Sorry about the experiences. Glad you are better now.
@@MedicalCentric I’m taking it day by day. Thank you 🙏🏽
@@mirrr5156 Do you follow a specific diet for the adhesions? I hope you keep feeling better.
Best wishes Allah bless you ameen i pray for your health
@@haziqkhankhan709 i appreciate you 🙏🏽
THANK YOU!
You're welcome!
Thank you, this videos and others tells me all I need to know, this is exactly what's been my issue, I have trouble peeing all the time, I cant pass gas and just constant pain and bloating right around my belly button and left side of it. A few weeks ago I was non stop throwing up for almost 5 days straight and nothing I would do stopped the naseua and vomiting and I hardly could eat for 3 of those days it was horrible and yet my parents acted like I was just annoying them and that wasnt my issue, but I have a huge scar straight down the middle of my lower abdomen from appendicitis that went septic after it ruptured after 3 days. But this issue has literally been affecting me for years now and nobody has done anything to help. I even went to a gastroenterologist and they didnt even bring up anything about adhesions to me and I wasnt aware of that being a thing at that time, but of course they said it was inflamed somewhat but nothing seemed to be an issue to them smh
P.s. that's why I'm up at 4:30 this morning because for the past 2 days I've hardly peed all day and night which seems to block everything else up until hours and hours and hours i finally go pee, as soon after (sometimes) everything starts moving through like the gases it's really weird but that's what i notice....I'm just praying this doesnt come full blown back like it did a few weeks ago, seems like every month or so thats when it really acts up and I cant eat, cant pee, get horribly nauseous out of nowhere and start vomiting violently for days and my throw up smells soooo bad its miserable but I'm stuck between parents who get mad that I want to get this dealt with and feeling like I'm dying
Glad you found it useful. Thank You
@@danielblake1537 How are you doing now? (It shows your comment is two months old now)
I hope you're doing better, this thread of comments is breaking my heart. I want to reach out to each person suffering. Drs don't ever explain how bad adhesions get until it's to late in my experience.
@@Cautionary_Tale_Harris still dealing with the same issues....and I eat like crazy but wont gain any weight. I normally weighed from 130lbs to 145lbs now I'm down in the low 100s and no matter how much I eat I dont gain weight. And its soo frustrating having a doctor that could seriously care less...shes just in it for the money she receives from my state insurance. Shes more worried about "high cholesterol" and stop smoking cigarettes which are the least of my problems. And anytime I try to stress to her that something's wrong and not normal she just brushes it off like she could care less and doesnt want to deal with it. And in the same building as my doctor is in, I went to the gastrointerologist to get a upper G.I. done to see what's causing all this pain and discomfort. And when my primary doctor found out I went to them b4 her she told me "well make sure you dont do that again....next time go through me, you contact me!" When she doesnt even do anything about it. And even when I got the upper G.I. test, not one of them ever mentioned that it could be from the zipper surgery I had done when I went septic when my appendix ruptured and I waited 2 days b4 I went to the E.R.. but you would think they would get that could be a major possibility and not until i did some research on my own did i find out about scar adhesions and the issues it causes. I literally am depressed over it everyday and feel helpless to find any cure or diagnosis to what's really going on but it's really scaring me how i lost soo much weight and havent been able to gain any back. Family that hasn't seen me in awhile are worried to death after seeing me recently because of how skinny and unhealthy I look, yet none of the nurses or doctors seem to think this is not normal, they just act like I'm a normal healthy, average patient which is just frustrating. But thanks for all the kind words and worried about me. Means alot when I feel like noone really cares. But yea i wouldnt wish this on my worst enemy and i dont even take pictures anymore on my social media because of how bad i look being soo skinny people would just assume I'm some drugs or something when it isnt.
Informative and thorough explanation presented 👍👍💯
Glad it was helpful!
My appendix ruptured and i got a bowel obstruction right after. Left the hospital and i had another bowel obstruction 5 months later. It's been 12 years and I've had at least 30 episodes, 5 at the hospital with ng tube and the rest at home. I should really go see a doctor, thinking of getting a laparoscopy. It's just annoying that that can cause more adhesions. After all these years at least you have a sense of when something isn't right with the bowel and can foresee an episode, its a risk I have to take otherwise I'd continue to live as is.... Still it's been such an inconvenience to live with adhesions. Some episodes feel like you're about to literally die
2:46 who is the genius who designed that? I definitely have that same setup, except for the amplifier, which isn't that good
What is the reason for your adhesions
I had extreme adhesions after three surgeries due to my my appendix exploding. When I went to have an hysterectomy it took them three hours to remove the adhesions. Even having to resection my sigmoid colon and rectum because.it.was choking them. My.scar tissue caused horrible hot ripping pains.
Oh wow sorry to hear. Are you better now?
my mother just got bowel volvulus surgery and I am so worried about if she will get this
Now im positive i have this after having my gallbladder removed i started experiencing bloating and pain as if it were a muscle. Whatever i eat makes me bloat and makes my stomach hurt and ive been trying to describe my pain not like a stomach pain more like i said before a muscle pain..but the pain is exactly around my scars frlm the removal. Im sure im totally full of scar tissue inside
same. ive been thru every test. reading about other’s issues really helps to accept the situation. thanks!
After having a failed intussusception surgery, I found myself having sever abdominal pain near the incision areas and ended up in the hospital! No doctor told me this word or concept! They just said “you have stricturing in your intestines near your incision point not letting solids pass”. Like hello? There’s an entire concept for this? Be careful who you pick as your doctors, if you can.
Have you gotten any updates? I've had strictures before and they can be very painful, but that is a different pain than adhesions.
What about adhesion barriers like Seprafilm or Surgiwrap.
they dont work
Yes, I had the surgery and it worked. @@moneylinemaven
Are you familiar with these products? How do you know?@@moneylinemaven
Can the adhesions be removed with the stomach apron surgery?
any new surgery in your abdomen will cause new adhesions and the situation can easily worsen. That's why docs don't want to do that.
@@lukaskula4514 I guess diet is the only thing one can do to help aliviate symptoms?
@@pce4856 more or less yes. Movement like walking or yoga can help a little as well
Do abdominal adhesions cause pain in rectum and also pain during bowel movements?
Bowel movement ! Yes but rectum no idea
Lap band can cause this 👀
Sir my child 2 surgery
1st surgery lop
2nd surgery Adenosis
What happened?
Sir, How is your child now?
Hi Venkatesh,
I had a intestinal intussusception surgery when I was just 1.5 years old. I'm 33 now. I just had a small issue this year wherein I was suffering from nausea and stomach ache and doctor suspected small bowel obstruction. But, this was due to my wrong diet wherein I had consumed high amount of fiber. The obstruction got cleared by itself and I'm normal now.
Your son will also be normal as time passes. Just make sure he should indulge in exercises, playing etc since physical activities help in this case.
I am sure he will recover soon. God bless you both😊
@@Stud1st Hi bipin,, my son had malrotation surgery next day of birth... And after 6 month (sep2022) he had intestinal obstruction due to adhesion, Second surgery done removed adhesion....i hope god will never happen again
@@asifpathan8019 Hi Brother,
Hope he never has to face this trauma again. I wish him and your family a happy healthy life.
I just had adhesions removed during my hernia repair, I had my appendix removed years ago so apparently that was the issue.
The amount of pain I've been in while recovering has been insane but I'm happy I got the surgery things could've gotten pretty bad if I left them alone.
Sorry about the experiences, I hope you feel better now