Saw Dr Haung today

 I  saw  Dr  Haung  today.  I have to decide whether i  want to have a scope for him to go in and take a look  or if i want to  live with it for a while.   Internal hernias are hard to diagnose unless you are lucky enuf to be at the  er during an episode.   so I guess i have a decision to make.

I had an experience with having an internal hernia this summer.  I presented to the ER with severe pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.  It was the worse pain ever.  They first thought it was an appendicitis, but after the CAT scan they couldn't see my appendix but did see dilated small bowel that could be a sign of bowel obstruction.  After being admitted I waited 24 hours and thankfully I felt better and was discharged the next day, but unfortunately the pain would come back about 20-30 minutes after I ate.  I even asked Dr. Loggins if it could be an internal hernia and he promised me that there was no way it was that because he closes the opening after doing the RNY.  Long story short I had an Upper GI, colonscopy and that revealed nothing.  I was on zofran for nausea and vicodin for pain for almost a month. As a last resort we decided to doing an exploratory scope and he thought that it could be my ovary, adhesions, appendix, but definitely not a hernia.  Well on Aug 23 I had surgery and guess what I did have an internal mesenteric hernia.  He thinks that I had lost so much weight that the stitch must have lost hold and opened up the original hole.  Luckily no bowel was stuck at the time but everytime I ate the bowel would slide through this opening while digesting food.  I was angry at first that I didn't have surgery sooner to fix this problem and that I could have gotten very sick, so I say DO the surgery because the 2 weeks that I was out after the surgery is priceless compared to the months of nonstop pain that I experienced.

Good luck,
Cristy

Sounds like you do have a decision to make. When I saw him he just brushed off my pain, so I am glad that he is taking you seriously.

My name is pat and I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am that you are going through this.
My answer to everything is to say prayers, so I'll say a prayer for you.
Good luck!
pat