Update on Stomach pain!

Went to the dr today gave me prescript for nexium and ct scan. thinks I may have an ulcer and want to see if meds work. If I still have pain next week want me to call and schedule a upper gi. You both were right. thank you for posting a reply and your concern. I am very grateful! p.s. Reunion is actually in the town of Commerce city. I am very very close to the DIA. CC is not a place many want to be from but our new community is awsome and working hard to repair the rep of CC. Feeling a little better today(cuz I havnt eaten) lol Leann 235/137/12**** goal for a whole 24 hrs then went back up lol

Leann I'm sooooo glad to hear from you...I was worried I hope you're feeling better soon When I came home from the hospital my doctor put me on Prevacid 30mg 1x a day, and Sucralfate 1gm 4x a day. I'm doing much better now. I hope you have positive results from meds too. Please keep us up-to-date...and God BLess you! Tanya 329/208/healthy & happy

Thanks for the update. I'm glad you saw the dr. It is nice to know where Reunion is. There are so many places in metro Denver that have bad reputations but have little pockets of wonderful neighborhoods. My mom lives in Aurora (we want them to move but they love it). The first house we ever bought was in Montbello. We were on a wonderful street with great neighbors. I really liked it because it was so peacefully multi-cultural. Our street was only one block long but we had all ethnicities living there who all got along. It was great for the little kids. We even have some friends here on the Western Slope who used to live in Five Points and they had the same positive experiences on their street there as we did in Montebello. Didi 272/170 My dr. doesn't give a specific goal but the nut. said I should be between 150 and 175 so I guess I'm at goal.

Thank you guys for your concern and support! I will keep you posted on how the meds work. Today has gotten even better! Thanks again Leann 235/135/125 Ya somehow lost 2 lbs since yesterday but im sure ill find them by the end of the week lol

Leann, Are you still having pain? If you are PLEASE make an appointment with the surgeon that did your surgery. Way back in August I went to see my p.C.P. because I was'nt feeling well. I was getting lightheaded, dizzy and even passed out while shopping, and I had a tender spot to the left of my navel. Well she was'nt concerened about the tenderness and said there was nothing on my left side everything is on the right side. She did some tests on my heart, and found nothing wrong with me. I talked to my surgeon and he asked if I was taking any thing for high blood pressure if so that would most likely be what was causing the lightheadedness. I stopped taking my blood pressure meds and all of my symptons left. The tenderness in my stomach went away for a while then on oct 17th I ate a cheese stick and it made me sick, I just thought well that didn't settle very well. I continued to have pain on and off until it got so bad that I could'nt tolerate it anymore~ eating or drinking anything made the pain worse. On Oct. 21 I went to the E.R. they admitted me saying I had pancreaitis. They took many many x-rays, many blood tests, did an E.G.D (scope), took an ultrasound, and a ct scan. I was told my pancrecas was shot, and my gallbledder itself looked good but the tissue surrounding it did'nt look good that something was going on in there. I was also told that I had polyups in my pouch and they took a biopsy on some of them to see if they are cancerous. I was in the hospital for 5 days and was not allowed to eat or drink anything. On the 5th day the Dr. came in and told me everything was fine and I could go home. I was happy to go home. My Surgeon called me but wasn't able to get a hold of me so I sent him an E-mail. He sent me one back asking me about my hospital stay (a different hospital than his) I told him everything they said. He said he was very concerened and told me to come see him. I am so glad I went to see him. He looked at all of their films and said he could help me but it would require surgery. He said it looked like the problem was my gallbladder, but had the symptoms of a prancreas. He thought maybe there was a small stone blocking the opening to the duct leading to the pancreas causing it to be inflamed. His plan was to go in take a look around to see if something wasn't showing up on the flims, then remove the gallblader and leave the pancreas. He admitted me that day so I could get some hydration (cause I hadn't eaten or drank anything in almost 3 days). He told me he could come in in Sunday and do my surgery, I told him no just do what he had planned over the weekend and come in fresh and do it on his regular surgery day (Tuesday). He told me he really could come do it~I insisted no. On Tuesday Dr. Carlin did my surgery. Once he got in there what he found was a real surprise. He found a rare internal penderson herinia. There was a hole inside of my small intestine. My intestine went through the hole and turned itself inside out, it then twisted around closed itself off and wrapped itself around my colon, my pouch and another organ (I forgot which one he said). Entire sections of my small intestine was closed off. My surgeon had to make some cuts in my intestine untwist it pull it back through its hole turn it right sight out and reattach it to new places. He made a roux limb from it and anchored it to my old remanant stomach to help hold everything in place. My surgeon told me Had this gone 1 or 2 more days it could have been fatal. I was in the hospital for a week, and have been home recovering for 6 days now. I still feel very tired. I am very blessed to have a surgeon that had enough sense to call me and ask questions and insist that I come see him. I thank God for that~because if I hadn't gone and seen him, instead of being tired today I could easily have been dead. So please if you are still having pain get yourself checked out not everything showes up in the tests. I'm not trying to scare you. I just want you to make sure you are alright. If I can help it I don't want anyone to have to go through what I had to go through. It wasn't very fun and the pain was excruating On a scale of 1 -10 I would have to give it a 12. My pain started just to the left and to the top of my navel. It radiated throughout my abdominal area. Often times it would shoot straight through to my back. Like I said before eating or drinking anything would make it worse. I hope this helps you (or someone out there tonight) God bless you, Annette