I had my surgery 5 months ago and still suffer the same pain pre surgery. I just don't understand it. P
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So sorry to hear. My surgery was 14 months ago and I still have pain. Confusing to say the least. Seems I can't eat many things I used to.
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It sound like biliary dyskinesia, also known as sphincter of oddi disfunction. Have your GI do a HIDA scan with morphine administration, if the morphine induces pain within 1 hour then it's positive and temporary stint placement (approximately 6months - 1 year) in the bile duct will relieve the pain. Good luck!
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Hi! I had a larascopic appendectomy in May. A few days later, I was still waking up with pain right under my right front rib. Surgeon assumed it was my gallbladder, then stones, then kidney stones, then liver... Now I'm being treated for shingles! Nothing is working. I can't sleep at night because I feel like someone punched me on my right side. The pain always starts in the front, then moves to right up under my right side rib and then down my side and back. When my husbands lays his arm around me at night, it knocks the air out of me. If I lay on a flat surface on the opposite side, I feel pinched and twisted. If I lay on my right side, I feel like I'm laying on a huge rock! If I eat big meals, it hurts. If my bladder is full, it hurts. I also noticed I have bowel issues with upset stomachs and lots of gas. It's not moving to my left rib and driving me crazy! I'm at a complete lose on what kind of Dr to see and I don't want to do exploratory surgery, esp since I suspect the larascopic was the cause.
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I had a lap/chole surgery in March of 2016. It is now July of 2017. Starting at the day of the surgery I have had excruciating pain across my abdomen from left to right, and from my sternum down to my navel area. I have have, as others have also posted, been to numerous types of doctors. I have had several CT scans, and one MRI of the abdomen area, none of those tests show anything wrong.
I had thre surgery in Texas and not long after the surgery my surgeon stopped returning my calls about the complaints of pain. I had to quit my job as I could not perform my work duties anymore. hen I had to move to Florida where I am now living with life long friends that are letting me stay at their home. I have no income and I am in so much pain 24/7 since this surgery that I cannot work. I cannot walk, sit, stand, or do anything without being in extreme discomfort. All this pain started the day of the lap/chole surgery.
I do not have health insurance and the only Obamacare policy that would cover me cost $600/mo. and had a $6.500 deductible. So much for "affordable care." And, since I am a white male, I do not qualify for medicaid here in Florida. They told me I had to be a female with children to get medicaid here.
What I am assuming, after reading through hundreds of posts on thousands of web forums concerning this same exact post-surgery pain is... it seems the medical professionals are in extreme denial that there is something drastically wring with the laparoscopic style of surgeries. I would also assume that these surgeries take less time to perform but still rake in the same similar amount of cash for the doctors and hospitals, so there is zero motivation to change anything. As long as the money flows, we the patients who are suffering from this seemingly mysterious post-op complication syndrome are left abandoned like unwanted puppies along the side of the road of the medical super highway.
After many return visits to my primary care with the same complaint, they make me feel its almost like I need to go to the FBI for a lie detector test so they will take me serious. They can't prove why I am in pain, they have no idea why I am in pain, but the pain is very real. I wish for even ten minutes I could touch one of these doctors and transfer my severe chronic pain to them, and then they could visualize the reality of what I go through all day everyday. If one of these mutil-millionaire doctors were to suffer like I am, I'm sure they would soon find the reason and the cure. Maybe they wouldn't be doing laparoscopic surgeries anymore...
The latest thing the pain management doctor and I discussed is that the lap/chole surgeon might have over-inflated my abdomen with too much gas during the operation, and that it might have sprained my abdominal muscles from inside in some way. But, the pain does not get any worse, and it does not get any better.
I went in one month ago (June 5th, 2017) to have what another surgeon here in Florida thought might be "adhesions" removed from inside. So, another laparoscopic surgery, and this one had zero results on the pain. Now I am back to square one, and now there is new pain I am experiencing because what ever this new surgeon did seems to have irritated what the first surgeon did.
Pain, pain, pain, pain... and ZERO accountability on the side of the entire medical profession.
I had thre surgery in Texas and not long after the surgery my surgeon stopped returning my calls about the complaints of pain. I had to quit my job as I could not perform my work duties anymore. hen I had to move to Florida where I am now living with life long friends that are letting me stay at their home. I have no income and I am in so much pain 24/7 since this surgery that I cannot work. I cannot walk, sit, stand, or do anything without being in extreme discomfort. All this pain started the day of the lap/chole surgery.
I do not have health insurance and the only Obamacare policy that would cover me cost $600/mo. and had a $6.500 deductible. So much for "affordable care." And, since I am a white male, I do not qualify for medicaid here in Florida. They told me I had to be a female with children to get medicaid here.
What I am assuming, after reading through hundreds of posts on thousands of web forums concerning this same exact post-surgery pain is... it seems the medical professionals are in extreme denial that there is something drastically wring with the laparoscopic style of surgeries. I would also assume that these surgeries take less time to perform but still rake in the same similar amount of cash for the doctors and hospitals, so there is zero motivation to change anything. As long as the money flows, we the patients who are suffering from this seemingly mysterious post-op complication syndrome are left abandoned like unwanted puppies along the side of the road of the medical super highway.
After many return visits to my primary care with the same complaint, they make me feel its almost like I need to go to the FBI for a lie detector test so they will take me serious. They can't prove why I am in pain, they have no idea why I am in pain, but the pain is very real. I wish for even ten minutes I could touch one of these doctors and transfer my severe chronic pain to them, and then they could visualize the reality of what I go through all day everyday. If one of these mutil-millionaire doctors were to suffer like I am, I'm sure they would soon find the reason and the cure. Maybe they wouldn't be doing laparoscopic surgeries anymore...
The latest thing the pain management doctor and I discussed is that the lap/chole surgeon might have over-inflated my abdomen with too much gas during the operation, and that it might have sprained my abdominal muscles from inside in some way. But, the pain does not get any worse, and it does not get any better.
I went in one month ago (June 5th, 2017) to have what another surgeon here in Florida thought might be "adhesions" removed from inside. So, another laparoscopic surgery, and this one had zero results on the pain. Now I am back to square one, and now there is new pain I am experiencing because what ever this new surgeon did seems to have irritated what the first surgeon did.
Pain, pain, pain, pain... and ZERO accountability on the side of the entire medical profession.
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I had laproscopic gallbladder removal in September and from the surgery, still suffering from shoulder pain, from the surgery, have frozen shoulder, bursitis and bicep damage, all from the surgery, so in pain every day and can’t sleep, thank you to the nurses and surgeon who performed the surgery because honestly if they were just a little more careful in the operating room, I think people wouldn’t be in so much pain afterwards and wouldn’t suffer so long
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same issues here 2 months post op. Sitting causing all kinds of discomfort, feels like my belly is bloated and get cramps,twitching around my waist.
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