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My wife had abdominalplasty surgery (tummy tuck) approximately 7 months ago. In the past 3 months, she has been experiancing chronic pain in her lower abdomen (1-10 scale, constantly 6, with bursts to 8 or 9) on a constant basis. Pain is below the scar line and feels like it's inside, not a muscle pain.
Seen our regular doctor and two gynocologists. Had several tests (Pelvic and abdomen cat scan with contrast, ultra sound, upper GI DSB, colonoscopy, EGD, and several blood tests, gynocologic probes and pap smears, std testing etc, etc, etc.
It has come to the point where our doctor recommended a Laparoscopy to look around and see if the possibility of Endometriosis could be ruled out (didn't think so, because it's not consistent with menstration cycle), or other problems not shown on external tests.
We are familier with the procedure, she has had two such tests (gall bladder and appendix removed via this procedure).
As I understand it, they insert a needle, fill the abdomen with a gas that expands the area so a scope can be inserted to look around with enough room as to not touch anything. From what I am told, the abdomen needs to be filled a lot to give a lot of room.
We are all for it, but a simple question has popped into my mind that I believe is common sense>>>
If she just had the tummy tuck 7 months ago, her stomac is very taunt, her navel was moved down quite a bit and there is a lot of scar tissue in there, won't it be hard to do a Laparascopy? Will there be enough elasticity in the abdoman to allow enough room to "look around"? Will the fact that the navel was moved, and all the scar tissue cause problems for this procedure?
Has anyone with any experiance with this ever had problems doing it?
Is it recommended?
Helppppppp!!!!!!
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History:
34 yo wh female, 5- 3, 165lbs
2 children (15, 10) natural birth
Tubal 10 years ago,
2000 Laparaoscopy to remove Gall Bladder
2003 Laparaoscopy to remove Appendix
Oct 05, Abdominoplasty and boob lift (not implant)
My wife had abdominalplasty surgery (tummy tuck) approximately 7 months ago. In the past 3 months, she has been experiancing chronic pain in her lower abdomen (1-10 scale, constantly 6, with bursts to 8 or 9) on a constant basis. Pain is below the scar line and feels like it's inside, not a muscle pain.
Seen our regular doctor and two gynocologists. Had several tests (Pelvic and abdomen cat scan with contrast, ultra sound, upper GI DSB, colonoscopy, EGD, and several blood tests, gynocologic probes and pap smears, std testing etc, etc, etc.
It has come to the point where our doctor recommended a Laparoscopy to look around and see if the possibility of Endometriosis could be ruled out (didn't think so, because it's not consistent with menstration cycle), or other problems not shown on external tests.
We are familier with the procedure, she has had two such tests (gall bladder and appendix removed via this procedure).
As I understand it, they insert a needle, fill the abdomen with a gas that expands the area so a scope can be inserted to look around with enough room as to not touch anything. From what I am told, the abdomen needs to be filled a lot to give a lot of room.
We are all for it, but a simple question has popped into my mind that I believe is common sense>>>
If she just had the tummy tuck 7 months ago, her stomac is very taunt, her navel was moved down quite a bit and there is a lot of scar tissue in there, won't it be hard to do a Laparascopy? Will there be enough elasticity in the abdoman to allow enough room to "look around"? Will the fact that the navel was moved, and all the scar tissue cause problems for this procedure?
Has anyone with any experiance with this ever had problems doing it?
Is it recommended?
Helppppppp!!!!!!
****
History:
34 yo wh female, 5- 3, 165lbs
2 children (15, 10) natural birth
Tubal 10 years ago,
2000 Laparaoscopy to remove Gall Bladder
2003 Laparaoscopy to remove Appendix
Oct 05, Abdominoplasty and boob lift (not implant)
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EVEN THO IT HAS BEEN CLOSE TO 2 YEARS SINCE U POSTED THIS BLOG I FOUND IT SO INTERESTING BECAUSE I CAN SO RELATE TO UR WIFE. I AM 34 YEARS OLD AND I HAD A TUMMY TUCK AND LIPO ON 1/29/08..THE BEST DECISION I EVER MADE IN MY LIFE, HOWEVER I BECAME ILL ON THE EVENING OF 3/2/08 WAS RUSHED TO THE ER AND WAS TOLD IT EAS MY GALLBLADDER AND IT HAD TO BE REMOVED. HOW DEVASTATED WAS I...NONETHELESS I HAD THE PROCEDURE DONE BY LAPAROSCOPY BUT MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS STILL WHAT WILL THE OUTCOME OF MY MOST PRECIOUS NOT TO MENTION EXPENSIVE TUMMY TUCK! :cry:
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I had a tummy tuck 01/08 and I complained to my doc about this horrible constant sharp, stabbing, burning, piercing shooting pain on my left side close to my (new) belly button in May-ish of this year, he told me to give it time. I moved out of state with this "time" he gave me. The horrible pain limited any sort of physical activity I wanted to do, in addition to the 3 year old I chase around. I can not kick my legs in a swimming pool, I have to brace myself to get out of bed or off the couch, I can not do jumping jacks or hop on one foot with my son... I can not do anything that involves tensing up my "core". I saw a plastic surgeon here in FL and he told me I had an area of "nerves caught in my inner sutures". He injected me with a combination of local anesthetics, steroids and something else, which only lasted for the first day. I was told they would have to go in and untangle the nerve. I flew home to see my original surgeon and he gave me the same injection saying "you don’t go back under for something like this; you are treated with these injections". I refuse to be shot up with these steroids so he can take the easy way out because he has already spent my money. He made the mistake, he can fix it. I have gained 25 lbs bc of his error, I cant do anything physical and I'm a single parent with a 3 yr old that’s always on the go and I'm in constant pain! I didn’t spend $6500.00 to have medical problems, pain and put on 25 lbs for the rest of my life.
Your wife needs to see about if she has her nerves tangled in her inner sutures, go back to the dr asap. When they sew you back up there are nerves in her lower abdomen that they could have gotten caught in the sutures. This is considered a "major complication for them, the Dr.", get a second option maybe before confronting the orginal Dr with it, I'm in the middle of getting my third opnion about being told you DO go back "under" to correct the problem. She cant keep living this way if she is going through what I'm going through, it's sooo painfull, it makes you want back your old body :-( Good luck to the both of you. She is lucky to have you on here looking for her.
Happy Holidays,
Laura
-Laura
ps if you figured anything more out let me know, please
Your wife needs to see about if she has her nerves tangled in her inner sutures, go back to the dr asap. When they sew you back up there are nerves in her lower abdomen that they could have gotten caught in the sutures. This is considered a "major complication for them, the Dr.", get a second option maybe before confronting the orginal Dr with it, I'm in the middle of getting my third opnion about being told you DO go back "under" to correct the problem. She cant keep living this way if she is going through what I'm going through, it's sooo painfull, it makes you want back your old body :-( Good luck to the both of you. She is lucky to have you on here looking for her.
Happy Holidays,
Laura
-Laura
ps if you figured anything more out let me know, please
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i had a Full TT in September of 2006, the next month was rushed in to have emergency Gall bladder removal surgery, they inflated just fine and it was a success but it wasn't until after the surgery they told us how worried they were as it can be very risky with reattachment so soon after the TT.
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