hey tori !
they are scar tissue yes, and sort of like a thick chewey looking bit from a chicken, like a string that connects from point a to b. lol
i suspect i may have this. sensations that are described are 'pulling' and of course alot of pain.
hope that made sense ! xx

Yes moon is right. You canalso have endo inside adhesions. They bury into them and you cant see them so a biopsy is needed to make sure you dont. Its very painful and it feels like pulling all the time. They were growing inside me. I had a laparoscopy done this past Thursday and its very painful to have them removed. Theendo specialist I'm seeing put some kind of medication inside me to help stop them from growing as well as cysts as I had. I'm not sure where they were cause I've had a hysterectomy this year to try to stop the endo. No one is stupid for asking questions. Your smart for asking. Its better to know than not. Mine grew all across my pelvic from one side to the other and all along my left side. That goes to reason why I had such severe pain all the time. I hope this works other wise I'm not sure what I will do next. They also say the more surgery the more adhesions. Once something touches it or air gets to it it just keeps growing so some say leave it alone and get therapy to help but I was so bad I really didnt have any other choice. I hope this helps!

Crikey, I always thought adhesions were like something adhering/sticking to another thing. Maybe I didn't understand it right? Maybe you can just have adhesions to one 'thing' and not to another?
In my case I had my bladder and tubes stuck to each other and to my side, which I understood to be the adhesions. As for pain, I didn't notice too much at first as I went to the doc for another problem. When he did a vaginal ultrasound I was a little uncomfortable, but fine too. Then driving home I started feeling nauseous and from then on I had loads of pain in my left groin area and recurrent nausea, especially when I was putting pressure on the area by sitting. Driving became a huge pain, too. The doc reckons that it was the ultrasound wand that irritated the endo in the area. I had a lap in January last year, but the pain came back quite quickly (maybe slredma's right and the surgery is almost making the situation worse?) so I had another lap in April. That's when the doc started talking about stronger medication to provoke a temporary menopause as the endo shouldn't have come back that quickly.
I didn't go for it and am banned from most hormonal treatment now anyway. Unfortunately the pain is back, the original pain was never addressed, and so I am waiting to have another lap as soon as I am fit for surgery.

yes it is two things adhering to one another pippa, but attatched by that white string adhesion. it can be short, it can be long. looks like a spider web webbing.
xx

HERE IS A DEFINITION I FOUND ONLINE:
"Scarring of the peritoneum around endometriosis is a typical and very common finding. The explanation for this is that the bleeding that occurs around each menstrual cycle gets collected, and since there is no escape for this blood, it will start irritating the adjacent peritoneal surface, then start producing irritation and inflammation and eventually, scarring. These adhesions are most common in the immobile pelvic structures, and are most commonly found in the pelvic sidewalls, behind the uterus, between the sigmoid bowel or colon, and on the posterior aspect of the uterus and cervix."

Basically, once endometriosis gets going in your body, it causes scarring. Surgeries further cause this scarring, which is like fibrous bands of tissue between structures in your pelvis. I had small amounts of endo to begin with and after two surgeries have severe adhesions covering my whole pelvis (and binding my bowel to my uterus). My doctor basically said that more surgery = more adhesions and that they respond to hormonal changes like endo, but can also cause other pains (the 'pulling feeling' we describe, one sided pelvic pain, or an inability to digest food properly).

Always make sure you have great surgeons who do minimally invasive work, because poor surgeons mean more damage and therefore more adhesions.

Adhesions are also what cause my painful sex - because my rectum and cervix were attached. This can explain a lot of our pain when doctors say 'I saw no endo'.....