Question:
has anyone experienced severe abdominal pain?
I ended up in the emergency room recently with severe upper abdominal pain.... they gave me morphine then sent me home. I finally went to see a gastroenterologist and he said it could be one of three things. a tear in my pouch, pancreatitis, or a hernia. Either way, it is going to take me a month to get the tests needed to get a diagnosis. I am on a diet of vicodin not much else. Dr. recommended low-fat food and no protein, but as you can imagine, this is not the ideal diet for a gastric bypass patient. has anyone had any experience with this? — gloria M. (posted on March 24, 2005)
March 24, 2005
5 weeks after surgery I was still having a bad burning pain and could never
tell when it would start. My Doctor said it was nerve pain and gave me
medication and after 4 says I have not had any more pain.
— Mary Ann P.
March 24, 2005
I have unfortunately for almost 1.5 years now. No one can seem to figure
out what it is. It all has to do with food..as long as I don'y eat, I am
fine. I have had tons of gallbladder tests, and all are normal. I have had
every GI test there is, including an endoscopy, in which they found
gastritis,and removed a polyp, but it all turned up to be nothing. I do go
the my surgeon tomorrow, and pray that he knows something. I waitied so
long to see him because I was pregnant last year, and no one would touch me
while I was pregnant, so baby has been born,and it's time to find out whats
wrong. My attacks happen like this.. I will eat something, and then statr
having pouch spasms, which lead to dry heaving, and SEVERE pain in my upper
epi area where my pouch is. It last any where from 4 hrs to 16 hrs. In
order for my to get through them, I have to be totally sedated. The only
thing that anyone has found, is that I have so much gas in my abdominal
cavity, that they have never been able to visualize my pancreas, so as to
what is next.... I'll repost tomorrow after my visit with my surgeon. Good
Luck
— katmamma1975
March 24, 2005
I posted an answer to similar questions several times in the last few
months. I am 18 months out myself and have experienced excruiating pain on
several occasions accompanied by nausea and HUGE burps. My gall bladder
surgery was on 10/04/04 and I went for a few months after that with no pain
then started having the problem again.....always within a few minutes after
I ate but it didn't happen consistently. Last time, I ended up in the
hospital diagnosed with pancretitus. They took me off all food and liquid
for 24 hours and put me on heavy pain medication. Within a few hours, no
more pain so they started me back on liquid. The only thing around to drink
was no sugar added apple juice so I drank about a gallon of that. Suddenly
I had SEVERE pain again, then a huge gurgling sound and pain went away
within minutes. No more pain, no more problem. My bypass surgeon happened
to be nearby and heard them talking about me and came by to see me. From
his questions, I could tell he didn't think I had pancreatitus and I had
none of the symptoms of it anymore anyway. I saw him after I was released
from the hospital and explained my symptoms to him. His opinion was that
the almonds I had eaten were the culprits. He said he had seen that as a
very common problem with RNY patients. The nuts just don't break down and
they sort of stick (like concrete) in the intestines and cause a partial to
full blockage so every time you eat, you hurt. He said it could take hours
or sometimes days for them to clear out. I haven't had any more nuts and
have had no more problem so it seems he may have been right about mine. He
said that as the body loses the weight, it is pretty common for the
reattached part of the intestine to be subject to partial blockages and
that causes pain, burping, etc., similar to a gall bladder attack. Don't
know if that helps you but that is my experience. I can't eat nuts and I
definitely can't eat high fat stuff. I've added back a couple of protein
drinks each day to compensate for losing my favorite snack (the nuts).
Hope you find an answer for you soon.
— scbabe
March 24, 2005
Hi there Gloria, I wanted to tell you that for the past fourmonths I've
had the same abdominal pain that your describing.. First I went to see my
primary dr. he didn't know what it was, then I went to another Dr. and he
thought it was my uterous, so he was going to do a historectomy,, went in
for surgery, he found nothing, so he closed me up and sent me home. I
then got frustrated and asked for a referal to go back to my surgion who
did the bypass and when I did, he did a blood test, and found that I have a
bacterial infection in my large intestine.. Thats all!!! I couldn't
believe it.. It was somethins simple that can be cured with medicine.. I
should have gone to him first. He put me on an aniboatic and on Nexium and
I feel great.. I haven't had anymore pain. I can eat again with out fear
that I won't be able to move or need the pain meds to get me through the
day.. Maybe you should ask your doctor to find out if he's done a test to
find something.. Hope everything works out for you.. Bernice
— Bernice B.
March 24, 2005
I lived w pains like that Dr. put me on Nexium . The pain never came back I
had every test done known to man. It was my miricle drug
— Rusty A.
March 26, 2005
Hi...My pain came on suddenly, usually right after eating...very severe
too, it had me on all fours on the floor. My surgeon said that it could be
a hernia and scheduled me for some tests as well as exploratory surgery.
My pain was in the center right under the rib cage. As it turned out, I
did have a hernia and also had my gall bladder removed because it was not
functioning. Thank God for my surgeon!
— boonikki29
March 26, 2005
At 18 months out I got an internal hernia (my small instestine was up in my
chest), and needed surgery to fix it. Pain is never normal and if I had
had to wait a month to be diagnosed I would be dead.
I would be calling my WLS surgeon now, please do not wait.
Hazel
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— Haziefrog
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