Idopathic Pelvic Pain

About 2 years I had  a Lap Band inserted.  I went from 284 to 264.   I weigh 314 now. If I eat meat too fast I will throw it up.  Other than that I can eat anything.   Last August 2010 I started to get pelvic pain.  Now the pain is so great I must take up to 3 5mg doses of Oxicodone a day. The doctors have ruled out any desase.  I have had a colonoscopy,  Bladder oscopy and an edoscopy and 2 ct scans of my pelvic. Nothing was out of order.

Most of my non-medical friends want me to have the Lap-Band Removed.  All of my friends with medical training say don't take it out.

Has anyone heard of pelvic pain after installing a Lap-Band?  All the Drs say I must learn to live with the pain

Friends? Doctors? Whose medical advice to accept? Tricky one that! Friends always think they know what is right for us, don't they!

Sorry to hear about the pain. I am not medically trained but it is hard see how a piece of silicone at the other end of your body could cause pelvic pain. It does occur to me that excess weight can make joint, back etc pain worse. So using the band to lose weight sounds a good idea to me.

Kate

Thank you for your comments.  I am gathering them up & will take them to the pain Dr when I see him in about a month.  All the Drs I have seen seem very competent and seem to be trying to find the source of the pain.  The pain Dr said that in his specialty this phenomenon shows up every once in a while and that is why it is called idiopathic(of unknown origin) pelvic pain. He has given me the best advice of just learning to live with it using small doses of oxicodone.  I was put on Lyrica for a short time but one of the side effects of it is the distruction of some of the rods & cones in the eye which happened to me.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Richard

Like Kate, I find it hard to imagine how a medical device on the top of your stomach can be related to pelvic pain. After performing all those tests on you that showed nothing wrong, what do your doctors have to say about it? Have you talked with your bariatric surgeon about it?

I started having widespread body pain (not pelvic, but just about everywhere else) about 1 year after I was banded. It took me another year of tests and doctors to get a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome. Before then, I always thought that pain was a sign of illness or injury. Since then, I've had to revise my thinking. For me, pain seems to have a mind of its own. I'm able to manage mine with tramadol, amytriptyline, and exercise. If I had mysterious pain that was so bad I had to take Oxycodone three times a day, I'd be looking at some alternative treatment like acupuncture.

Sometimes I wonder if my fibromyalgia is an immune system reponse to the presence of the band in my body, but no doctor has been willing to even venture an opinion about that. I'm very anxious to keep my band, and would hesitate to have it removed if the doctor couldn't promise me some measure of improvement in my fibromyalgia pain.

Good luck,

Jean

Jean, I had fibromyalgia for several years before getting my band. I was hoping losing the weight would help. It does help in the fact that I am able to exercise more.Fibro definite has opinions of it own. Most doctors say fibromyalgia is not an auto immune problem. Lupus which has many of the same symptoms as fibro is an auto immune disease and I have heard of people having to remove their bands when diagnosed with Lupus.

So I am thankful my fibro can coexist with my band. Some days I can't get out of bed,but on the good days I forget anything is wrong.

Richard, sorry to hear you have been having pain. Have you had your prostate assessed (digital rectal exam) and PSA tested?

Sometimes a Urologist can help with pelvic pain too.

Cat.

Thanks for your reply. 
Yes I have had my prostate checked & it was OK but the Dr put me on a regime for prostatitis anyway but it was to no avail.

One of the Drs thinks that the problem is an undectable & untreatable low grade case of prostatiis.

Richard