call your bariatric surgeon and ask his oinion You may need a CAT scan of abdomen by someone who knows what to look for and check for bowel obstruction.  My first friend who died of an obstruction had been sent home from hospital several weeks earlier witha diagnosis of "food poisoning"

I've been constipated for the last three days, and stomach was very bloated and hurt everywhere.  Then this morning i've had diarrhea twice and stomach still hurts pretty badly.  I had RNY in March 2007 and everything has been great up until now.  Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for any advice. Evelyn

Butterfly Reborn,      I read a bit of your postings, boy have you been through it girl!  Life is so unfair at times, but we cannot dwell on that can we?  We just have to move on, one day at a time and  make the best of what we are given.   I have a daughter , age 16, who at age 9 was diagnosed with a life threatening neuromuscular disease.  It used to bother me when people would ask me how I cope with it.  NOT very well, I would think, but what choice do we have but to face our woes and go on, or be quitters and give up on everyone  and everything in our lives?  Anyway, enough said about all that, I believe that all things happen for a reason, even if we never know what the reason is.     Well, I went to my WLS surgeon the other day.   He thinks it is either my gallbladder or a Petersen's hernia.  So I guess I will be having a HIDA scan to see if it is something with my gallbladder or if I need an exploratory surgery to check for an internal hernia.  I was certainly not planning on more surgery this summer but it looks like I may be headed that way. I was wondering did you have episodes of pain alternating with periods of no pain or very little pain with the inernal hernias?  The more I read about the internal hernia symptoms (which I am unable to find a lot about) the more I think that may be the cause of the pain--at least based on symptoms.  The surgeon didn't seem to think it is an ulcer because I would have pain almost immediately after eating. Hmm.... what I had was painful enough, but I am sure it could have been worse.  I am sure that a complete bowel obstruction is just about unbearable, and I think a bad gallbladder attack would have been more painful than what I experienced.  However, I knew that pain was NOT from anything that made sense, like eating too much at once, and it lasted quite a while, about 8 hrs.  Then it subsided almost as quickly as it started, tenderness gone and all.  The pain would start within 10-15 secs of swallowing even jus****er!  I don't think that sounds at all like a gall bladder or an ulcer. I am an OB nurse by trade, and I have to applaud you at your advocacy of your health care and treatments.   It is so important to be your own advocate.  I have learned to be an advocate for my daughter's health.  Some docs are great about it, others kind of skeptical.  Most listen to me, but it helps that I can put RN behind my name.   Thanks for listening.  Janet

On Sunday I went to the ER and was admitted to the hospital and released last night 5-7-08.  Went in the hospital with horrible abdominal pain, not able to keep anything down and spiked a fever.  Admitted to hospital.  Stool came back positive for blood and hemoglobin sitting at 10.0; CT scan showed free fluid in my abdomen, about 1/2 dozen kidney stones, and my pouchie is inflamed.  Sent home on carafate, protonix, nasau meds and pain meds.  Endoscopy was attmepted but they claim I kept gagging so they couldn't perform it?!?!  I still don't feel right.  Kicker of the whole thing I was out of town when all this happened and at an out of town hospital and my surgeon was never contacted?!?!  I had my gastric bypass on 9-15-06 Any thoughts and/or advice would be appreciated! Jill

Thank you Kristi321. We have to put risks into perspective. Why did people die? What were their pre-op conditions, did they follow the rules, who was their physician, what killed them, .... there are so many things to look at, and yes, you can drive yourself crazy.  For example, the risks of dying for young men in Iraq is lower than their risks of dying in D.C.