Re: abdominal pain post hysterectomy
From: marge2u2@comcast.net
Tue Feb 12 19:31:59 2008
At Tue, 16 Nov 2004, deedee wrote:
>
>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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Pain can originate in one area and appear in another. This has been my
experience. I have had some of my
painful syptoms after many years labels diverticulius or one time severe
ulcers. We have also found adhesions
Kidney stones, Gall stones etc. My aunt even had something left in her
stomach area that caused pain for years
and after removal of the object she did much better. You have to be your on
detective/medical doctor. Keep
searching the net you may find you answers too. Do not give up and let the
doctor push you around.Drs are humans
and as such do not always care unless it happens to them. good luck home you
do better.