Has anyone ever experienced severe intestinal pain requiring surgery?

I had a gastric bypass in 1984 and had hardly any problems until recently. Off and on for about 3 years I had been having severe pain that seemed intestinal and put me in the ER 3 times. The pain was unbearable. It felt like the most severe gas pain and I could do nothing to stop it. The last time I ended up having surgery because of an intussusception (telescoping) of the small intestine. It was virtually impossible to detect through regular x-rays and it took a CAT scan taken after the intussusception caused part of my intestine to die before they saw anything. They still couldn't tell what they were seeing on the scan; maybe a tumor or a heria. Then exploratory surgery was done. Drs. said it was rare. I had my intussusception surgery on 11/16/99 and I have since had 2 more attacks. I'm afraid it's happening again. I only made the connection to the bypass surgery having anything to do with my intestine problem by searching the net. The Drs. couldn't explain it so I took it upon my self to search. I'm looking for information anyone may have in dealing with this problem. Thanks. Denise

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