ADHESIONS after Hysterectomy

[Misia]

Can anyone tell me what symptoms you had before it was discovered you had adhesions after hysterectomy?I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and now it is 7 months and for the 3-4 months I felt slight pain on my right side and was told by my 2 doctors that this are the healing pains after the surgery.
Now I was told that I am healed and these are adhesions or cancer coming back.
Going for MRI in two weeks.Will se.
I bet my colon is stuck to my voult and that why it hurts.
Any comments. PLEASE.

[sandy77385]

I have read your comments and guess I have a little different question. I'm almost 55 and had a complete hysterectomy 6 weeks ago. Recovering went great, still having to take some hormone for hot flashes (thought I would be finished with that as I've been post-menopausal for a about 4 years). Anyway I decided to have massage for shoulder/back pain related to past injuries and last week the therapist gave me a deep tissue massage. He also had me lay on my back and did deep massage on the inside of my hip bones/stomach. It hurt pretty bad at the time, I told him I'd had the surgery recently, but he didn't seem to think that was a problem. Well now it's been 4 days and my pelvic/abdomen area hurts more that after the surgery. Could he have damaged some healing tissue or something? Has anyone had this type of experience or problem? Maybe I'm just worrying for nothing.
thanks for any info.
sandy

[butterflytc]

will be getting a ball asap, ty for the info, as always woman on this site are more helpful then docs sometimes. really appreciate your time and research ladies.

[Lynn63]

I too have suffered from adhesions (2 previous C-sections and hysterectomy) for several years.  It started out with abdominal soreness when I would wake up in the morning. About 7 years ago when a colonoscopy was attempted it couldn't be completed due to adhesions.  I had a Gyno give me a gel that is used for people who use a pessary and believe it or not that seemed to help....maybe helped with the friction that adhesions caused between organs?  
Long story short I recently had both ovaries (and the cysts on them) removed and at the same time they scraped out adhesions (which stuck ovaries to intestines as well as bladder was covered).  He used a new product that is supposed to help prevent future adhesions.  It was done laproscopically so I hope the surgery doesn't cause more.  My doctor feels that the adhesions were the main cause of pain for me rather than the cysts.  I had been experiencing right pelvic pain for about a year that my internist thought was more of a chronic appendicitis.  Then about 4 months ago the pain was at times severe which led to us trying to figure out the cause.  
My surgery was one week ago today and I feel great!  It is so nice to be without all the pain!

Good luck to you....I think I will try these massages myself to prevent future adhesions.
:)

[Spiritlaughing]

Wow, I never knew there were web sites dedicated to adhesions.  I thought I was destined to travel this road alone and nobody would ever understand how it feels.  I am so glad I found this page and have read the comments.  Now I don't feel so lonesome with this pain.  I had 2 C sections and 1 ovary removed and a hysterectomy.  The ovary removal was a direct result of adhesions being attached to my ovaries and pulling them all the way up under my abdomen.  I went through 2 years of pain and doctors telling me it was in my head before they finally figured it out.  Adhesion problems again resulted in the hysterectomy.  Then years later the pain came back and although I told the doctors that I thought it was adhesions they still took almost a year to finally agree and go in and cut them.  That was 2 years ago.  Now I have the same thing going on again and once again the doctors are acting like I don't know what I am talking about.  The whole trip has been very frustrating and sometimes I just want to give up.  People just don't believe the pain that these adhesions can cause.  I am going to try the exercise posted here and hope it helps like it did for y'all.  Thank you for sharing.  It made my day to know I am not alone.

[Mary 53]

Hi Liz,

Try a google search using the following words...Yamuna body logic. Yamuna Zake is the creator of Yamuna Body Logic and Yamuna Body Rolling™.  You will find many websites that explain the body rolling massage...how it works, why, etc. Yamuna is the name of the woman who developed the technique, I believe. Her picture shows up on the websites.

I never ordered work from the website since my exercise instructor taught me how to do it in a half hour session. It was amazing.

I do always make sure I let people know that I am not a doctor, and certainly suggest that you check with the doctor before doing deep massage in this area. It seems to be a well-kept secret, though. My doctor had never heard of this technique to break up adhesions and figured I would have to live in pain for the rest of my life from the adhesions. I have only talked with a few other people who  are familiar with the idea of doing massage to keep adhesions and scar tissue at bay...or, as in my case, away completely after having many adhesions six years ago. Simply Star on this site is also familiar with using massage in this way and she is another resource if she does not mind me saying so!

Best of luck to you.

Mary

[LizT06]

Question about body rolling - can you do it by dvd at home safely or do you need instruction first?  I have done Yoga and  Pilates in the past so have some feel for these movements.  I will be having my second ovary removed soon and would like to clear some of the adhesions I have from my first surgery and will probably get from the next.

Liz