question: Hello Dr. Stephen, My mother gets recurring stomach pain. Following are the facts that may help you in understanding her situation; 1- She went through a uterus removal surgery in August 2010. Her surgery took around 4hrs (which is very unusual for the type-and the doctors didn t give us the reason as to why it happened. Since then she gets recurring abominal pain. 2-I am writing to you from Pakistan and doctors here have been doing a lot of medicinal experimentation on her. I just got a chance to read about her symptoms and they match with Gastritis and post surgery adhesion . 3- She moreover, has been using seretide ( inhaler ) to treat her asthama for around 10 years now. I checked and there are cases reported for seretide causing Gastritis. 4- Her ultrasound has been done here and is clear in all regards. Please advice. Best regards, Iram