Chronic Nerve Pain After Appendectomy

Did you recover in the end?

Hello, I am very sorry about your husband, I realize this is a long shot, but we’re they able to identify which bundle of nerve it was? I have the same issue 1 yr post op.

To the 24 year old make. I am also having the same kind of pain. Did you ever find out why.

Did you ever find out why? Cause I am experiencing the same kind of pain bigger

I am waiting

I have the pinching at the appendectomy site and seem to have a small bladder now too! Anyone have any answers for these things? Is this just a normal side effect of the procedure?

I had the same thing. My doctor told me it is muscle spasms from being,cut open and may continue until healed. The went away after a couple of weeks.

Thanks for that I'm experiencing the same thing right now and I'm 3 weeks and 2 days after emergency surgery where in was left 5 days with my surgeon convinced it was gall bladder the pain is agony but have the docs in 30 mins to see if I can get anything for it as I don't suspect infection just pain where my appendix would have been been fine until last couple of days and thought maybe I was imaging it but the pain is definitely there and so uncomfortable and sore


Hope your all good now and thank you again

I'm having same thing. Had appendectomy 7 days ago. What was the outcome

What Happened did it get better

I had mine removed Monday, it’s Wednesday. The waves I’m experiencing in my stomach now are gas.

I just had the same thing done, lap app and small hernia repair at the same time. Did they say the pain could be from the hernia repair more so than the appendectomy? I have extreme burning around my belly button, not at the incision site, but more underneath.

I have just had my appendix removed and get this so bad! Did it resolve at all?

Is it gas? I had this experience. Just had surgery Monday morning. It is Wednesday now

Did anyone ever have a positive result after experiencing these symptoms? What was the diagnosis? What was the timeframe to resolve it? I am relating my detailed experiences below in hopes that someone can relate to this, or find some comfort in my approaches to diminish the pain, or at least some consolation in knowing your experience is not yours alone. I have been experiencing these exact symptoms for the last three days in the ten days since my laparoscopic appendectomy. I am a slender 5'-7", 140 lb, 50-year-old male, who is very healthy, and very active outdoors (backpacker, hiker, kayaker). I stopped taking the prescribed Oxycodone after the fourth day after my surgery due to severe constipation, and the quasi-stupor state of mind it left me in. Between my left incision down to the the top of the left groin (or more specifically: down to the top of the pubic bone, along the attaching/terminating ends of the muscles or ligaments in the area of the left Rectus Abdominis Muscle/Internal Oblique Muscle/Reflected Inguinal Ligament). I have no pain or discomfort in the area of the removed appendix, nor at the other two incisions. I have no fever or other aches or pains. On day ten of recovery, I find that I can rather easily walk around, sit down, squat down, crawl, stand up, and to some degree lean over if I favor my right side. However, if I lie down, it must be on my right side. Unfortunately, I can only get back up again with extreme difficulty, taking several minutes to maneuver my limbs and body into the right combination of positions to avoid extreme pain. This is successful 85+% of the time. When unsuccessful it results in an excruciating, crippling, hot-burning, pain—and screams of agony. The two closest pains one could relate this to is the feeling one experiences with the sharpest of gas pains combined with the feeling one feels in the hand and fingers after striking the 'funny bone' (on the inside of your elbow) although much more intense and debilitating. I had to stop using my bed because it had nothing useful for me to grab onto to help me get upright. I moved to the couch where it is lower to the ground and I could use the arms and back of the couch to help move myself around a bit more easily. I have also found some comfort in sleeping upright on the couch between columns of pillows on my left and right and propping up my feet on an ottoman (although the sleep quality is not so good). Tonight I am going to sleep on the floor because I think the energy I spend to maneuver myself will be greatly improved. Much of the energy I have been spending pushing up from a mattress or couch cushion is absorbed by it, and I can hardly manage to get my arms under my torso to push myself up. When I experimented getting up off the floor from a horizontal position, I found it is much faster and easier because the effort expended compared to position attained is a 1:1 ratio. To get relief after a painful episode, I apply light pressure with an ice pack for 10–15 minutes on the area described above, and take 1000mg of acetaminophen with lots of water (I never take more than what's directed in a 4–6 hour timeframe), and then sit as comfortably, and still, and long as possible (hours).