Hello!

If you are glad the OP is in the hospital why aren't you?

If you believe you have an internal hernia, why aren't you doing something about it or are you?  I've had two IHs and both were only discovered by exploratory surgery.  If you have not been to see your surgeon for an exam and/or have not presented as an emergency when you were/are in pain, do so immediately. 

A 4 yr post op recently died from an obstruction while on vacation because she wasn't tended to properly.  I've had five obstructions and nearly died more than once. 

Please do not take this lightly.  You can find yourself in a precarious situation at any time.

Please seek help ASAP!  

Please!

Hi I had my RNY on the 30th of June and after second day I was very nausous and they took a x-ray on the thrid day to find that I was very bloated so I had to have another surgery. I had a hysteromy 4 years ago and I had scar tissue  and my bowel was twisted so they had to get out all the scar tissue and untwist my bowel. After the surgery on the 2nd of July they took everything very slow. I was fed through my IV only and was not aloud to have anything oral for 4 days then on the five day they started with the ice chips for one day then jello for one day and cottage cheese, yogart and applesause the next day. I was in the hospital a total of 11 days. It very scary. I have been told by my doctor with scar tissue it can reoccur at any time. It could be a year, five years, ten years. No one knows when it may come back but to just remember the feeling of the bloating and nausea and  to get to the ER because they would have to operate.
Iam getting better each day

Gwen

I am also recovering from a bowel obstruction that I had surgery for on the 18th of June. I went home on the 6th day after surgery, but felt that something was wrong----the docs were ignoring my complaint of increased pain and inability to eat. So I went home and three days later my incision devekoped an opening and was draining pus and blood. The docs office was closed so I went to the ED and they opened my incision and ckeaned it out and I am currently doing dressing changes 2x daily to an open wound in my belly. I was unaware that I had been running fevers as my thermometer was not working. Then over the next few days I developed lots of nausea and was running fevers again. So I had a CT and they found 2 abcesses inside, one in the right front of my belly and a small one on my spleen. I ended up having a lovely drain put in the larger abcess which I still have, and an antibiotic to hopefully get rid of the other abcess. I spent another 7 days in the hospital, until I am finally not running fevers anymore. Just yesterday I started being able to eat small amts at meals again. My strength is zapped due to inability to even get protein shakes down. It has been a nightmare, needless to say.
I went basically a month with nothing but fluids--too nauseous to even try and eat.
I don't know what your situation is but for me, I had to have about a 5 in*****ision to open me for the repair, and the surgeon told me that there was some leakage of bowel contents whi*****reased my risk of abcess.
My advice to you would be make sure you have an accurate thermometer and take your temp often....try to go long enough without pain meds that will decrease your temp...I was told to call if temp grtr than 101.5, however, I found the doc seemed concerned even about temps over 100. Also, increased pain is a sign of trouble,too. Best wishes on your recovery.

The sharp or sometime dull pain is right on my incision, which is right under my ribs dead center middle.  Now I spoke to the new bariatric surgeon and he thinks it is the dumping syndrome we get..but Im not eating any heavy carbs but I have had some gastroparesis because I was a (high glucose) diabetic..gastroparesis is when there is no acid or not enough and undigested food stays longer than it should in the stomach and it doesn't move along to the intestines..however it can be the dumping which is when we it moves fast or too fast into the intestine. I read on both and there is some testing to be done. The doc ran a FULL blood work up which they ended up doing 11 tubes of blood there is also a barium taking xray that can be done to determine the speed of the emptying of the stomach. Follow this link to do some reading..your situation may be similiar or not.

http://www.gitract.info/articles/stomach-disorders/gastric-e mptying.php

Let me know what your doctor says. I can go weeks or months without incident and then suddenly it can act up..which I hate cause I've had the pain so severe I've had to be taken to the ER.
Best of luck

My incision was left open also because I had a blockage in my intestines which caused a leak. I was left open for approx a month. I have a small picture of it when it was open and I will try to put in on here. It was as long as one of those long medical cue tips. If it doesn't show up you can see it on my profile..