Question:
has anyone suffered from ischemic bowel

I recently had to have two surgeries to correct ischemic bowel problems. I had Open Roux n y on 1/19/04 and hernia repair on 2/19/05 Can any one provide information    — andi54 (posted on January 10, 2008)

January 11, 2008
Ischemic bowel happens when the blood is cut off to a certain part of your bowel. This causes injury and inflammation. If blood flow is cut off for long enough, the section of bowel involved can die. It can cause gangrene. I'm not sure what info you are looking for. Feel free to email if you have more questions.
   — mrsidknee

January 11, 2008
This happened to me about four months after RNY surgery. I had about the most severe pain of my life at the onset. The pain came on very suddenly and lasted for hours before I was mercifully put under anesthesia for emergency surgery. I was told that there was a two foot section of bowel involved. Fortunately it "came back" and did not have to be removed. Obviously, these things are life threatening if not corrected. *** In addition, about a week after surgery it was discovered that I had a clot in one of the major arteries that supplies the bowel. I was hospitalized for this for a longer period than for the original bypass surgery. The clot was less serious than the blockage I had four months later but I was on Warfarin (a blood thinner, sometimes known as "rat poison") for over a year before the clot disappeared (determined via CT scan). *** Anyone who has had bowel surgery has an increased probability of such things happening, even years afterward. It's unfortunate that the bariatric surgeons are not warning their prospective patients of this risk. On the other hand, most of would probably want to proceed with surgery in spite of this potentially life threatening risk.
   — [Deactivated Member]

January 11, 2008
You might want to go to yahoo grads, where these kinds of problems are, sadly, fairly routine. Only a few ischemic, but the SBO (small bowel obstructions) are discussed way too often. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG
   — vitalady