abdominal pain post hysterectomy
From: deedee (deedillydelaney@yahoo.com)
Tue Nov 16 15:12:13 2004
I have been struggling with pelvic pain since I was 16. At 21 I was
dx'd with endo. Since then I have had multiple laparoscopies and
laparotomies as well as drug therapy in attempts to control the pain.
Each time, dense adhesions were removed only to form again.
In September I had a total abdominal hysterectomy with left oophrectomy
(both tubes and right ovary had already been removed in previous
surgeries). Two days after the surgery I began experiencing pain under
my belly button. The pain has not let us since. It has however,
changed and seem concentrated in the right upper quadrant and almost
under my ribs. I am in constant pain and no one is helping me. I don't
know which way to turn at this point and I am scared that the adhesions
are messing things up all over again. I did this hysterectomy as a last
ditch effort to try to get rid of constant pain and now I feel like I
made a huge mistake because I am still in pain and being bounced back
and forth between my doctors who keep saying it isn't their job and two
ER visits for the pain have resulted in no help at all either.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Questions I should ask my
doctors? Places to look for research? Ideas for pain relief? I feel like
I am losing my mind.
Thanks!
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