Internal Hernia???

Hey Guys, I haven't posted in quite a while, I'm about 18 months out of surgery, and have lost 80% of my excess body weight and up until recently have been feeling great.  I have been having severe abdominal pains that I thought were dietary related until I had my checkup with Dr Bour,  I'm told it could be an internal hernia.  I go for my CT tmrw, but I'm wandering how soon will they schedule surgery if it is a hernia and will they take my gallbladder as well.  From everything I've read I'm under the impression that it will need immediate surgery, but that has yet to be confirmed.  Any advice would be greatly helpful!!


Thanks

Tanah

You are in my thoughts and prayers...I have a small hernia  that we are waiting to repair around march or so...so I know the pain.  but I am trying to hold out so it will help my insurance pay for my tummy tuck.....

I started having pains in my lower left side below my naval last year and a small lump would come up that I could push against and it would go back into place, the pain would double me over and I couldn't do anything until it stopped. Dr. Bour sent me for a CT but nothing showed up so he didn't seem concerned about it at the time. The lump has gotten bigger about the size of a large plum and will still double me over at times. I'm sure it's a  hernia, since I have no idea what else it would be. I go back to Dr. Bour in April and plan on discussing what to do about it. I will not agree to have another CT since the contrast that you have to drink put me in the bathroom the whole time I was drinking it. I know it gives a lot of people diarreah ,but I think it is worse with GB patients as it runs straight through and I do mean straight through all over the place, lol. I asked another surgeon at the hospital if herinas always showed up on a CT and he told me no. I
work at St. Francis and Dr. Bour no longer goes there but we are starting a new bariatric program and Dr. Anderson is going to be doing the GB and LB, so I might get him to do the hernia repair if it is needed only because I can have it done with nothing out of pocket where I would have to pay some money if I go to Hillcrest hosptial.
I hope you get it fixed and have no more problems. Let us know how the CT goes and what he decides to do.

Take Care!
Mary

I actually had 2 hernias back in January and wound up having emergency surgery b/c some of the bowel was in it. I beleive it's called petersen...peterson hernias. There isn't anything bulging in your tummy just "hole" internally. I would say go for the CT now. I was very lucky that I didn't end up losing some of my bowels. My pain would kinda come and go but it also depended on the position I was in. My GP said it could have been my gallbladder or an ulcer..but the position thing didn't make sense and I really didn't even tell him that. I should have called my surgeon. Anyways the pain strarted 1 night and would stop so I wound up in the ER and went on to have emergency surgery that night. I hope that everything turns out ok. Let us know what happens. P&PT's.

Sorry I just realized that this was back in Jan. LOL. So how did everything turn out??

Well I just had (EXPLORATORY) surgery last wednesday  to repair the hernia , they also removed some scar tissue and fat that was hanging from my abdominal wall, and straightened out my bowels.  I seem to be doing well, I'll be returning back to work tmrw.  I am staying very light-headed, my doc thought it was a protein deficiency which made sence but I have corrected for that and still am having issues.???  Hopefully it will get better though.