Help people with severe adhesions

I am sorry but I do not think you will find anyone on here that can help. I would ask this same question on the ostomy forum (go to forums and chat and look for ostomy). Most people on this UC board have not had surgery. What were the epidurals for? I've never had one...

I had surgery, but it was planned, and done in three steps. I have been off all medication since. I wonder if your emergency surgery was performed by a colorectal surgeon or whether it was a general surgeon? Have you gotten many opinions? It seems in these cases, more surgery is often not beneficial. I have to question if something went wrong earlier on that has caused this? and beyond that, 4 more surgeries, were these all warranted? Did they improve your quality of life? I think I would get opinions and seek legal council. I would want the records reviewed by an independent 3rd party.

Yes she was colorectal surgeon, it's just bad luck. We don't do the whole legal thing in the UK. The adhesion surgery was necessary as I was bent double with pain but I don't think they should have done so many so quickly. Now I'm inoperable. Thank you very much for suggesting the ostomy section. I will ask again there. I had epidurals as they give you an epidural after surgery to help with the pain. They leave it in for about 3 -4 days. I've always had to spend about this time in intensive care

LiveStudioAudience this is exactly what happened to me. The surgeries made me infertile as the scarring just glues everything down or together. Not only does it leave you infertile but also unable to go through a pregnancy through IVF. My consultant was very concerned when I was thinking of IVF and strongly advised me not to even attempt it. My abdomen wouldn't stretch so I would have had to have a big operation every trimester for them to rip the adhesions to create space but the adhesions are wrapped around other organs and they wouldn't know what they were cutting into. I'd have have to had a c section at 7 months and there was a ridiculously high risk of death for me and the baby. He was quite insistent I didn't get pregnant as that week he'd operated on a woman who was similar case to me but not as extensive. She was in having the first of the 3 operations but neither her or the baby survived the operation.

Please make sure to look after yourselves as much as possible and if you think it's bad now remember it can get much much worse. Please make your health your main priority and do anything you can not to have a stoma. They are physically and emotionally very difficult to deal with in my experience. I wish you the best of luck with life and your health