How have you managed to get a 6 pack. I had one before my surgery, but since they removed a third of my bowel and left me with a 6 inch scar, trying to train my abs just makes them stick out more. I'm getting so depressed by this. Btw, girl abs but still serious abs before this.
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I was just wondering if your abdominal bloating has gone down? my surgery to reconnect my colon was August 5th my stomach expands so much after I eat it hurts
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I have!!! My stomach was flat! Then i lost weight right after the colon surgery, but....i put some on about 4 years later. Now my stomach looks like i am 9 months pregnant! I hate it!!! I do not know what to do. Do you?
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I feel the same way! I wish i never had the surgery done either. My stomach was always flat, but now i look 9 months pg. I hate it! Does anyone know what to do?
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I have the same as you which is very uncomfortable. I now only buy loose clothes. I have looked for private treatment without success.
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I had a heria removed n it got infected now am paying for it my belly muscles been cut 3 time what exercising can I do
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Hi, Yes, I am 5 months post surgery for same thing and I cant fit into any of my clothes. Right top is about 1/2 inch more swollen on one side. Never had a gut like this and now looks like I have a beer gut. Hate. it. I was in chronic pain for 4 months. Dr. acts like nothing wrong. Going crazy. Wearing leggings only. Thank God they are in or I don't know what I would do. Makes me sad. Wish I had answers. I don't understand it. Did they rearrange things in there so it sticks out? I cant find answers any where from anyone.
Good Luck. I feel your pain
Good Luck. I feel your pain
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I just want to say I am so sorry. Its horrible for you to go through all this. I had a horrible experience but I cant complain compared to what you are going through. after 4 months of chronic pain I finally got some relief and feel like a new person. I hope and pray you will see light at the end of the tunnel. I know how it can mentally wear on you. I just started putting those healing pads on my large scar to see if it helps. Maybe once you heal and feel better ( I had to also heal inside out from infection 9 weeks), try mederma or the pads. Maybe once you heal finally and feel better you can have plastic surgery down the road. You will get there. You will feel better. I never though I would and I finally am. I hope the same for you because I am starting to finally feel like my self again and I thought I never wood. Prays sent your way. Mary
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I came here hoping to find someone who could tell me "yes, in time your swelly belly will go away and you will no longer look 7 months pregnant".... but to date I have not found anyone who can assure me this will happen or what I can do to be pro-active and make it happen. It's physically draining as I feel like I am carrying around a full "six-pack" but not the kind you want, the kind you acquire after drinking one. :) If I don't smile I will cry, I'm mentally and physically drained. I am 5'9 and I used to wear a size 10, now I can't even fit into a size 16. So sick of yoga pants and maternity shirts. Oh yes did I forget to mention I had a bowel resection on Feb 1st, 2016 and after discussing (pre-surgery) all the possible ramifications that could occur and getting two opinions no one ever told me after we pull your intestines you may look like you have a beer belly the rest of your life. I equate it to pulling a 9x13 tarp out of a vacumned seal box, there is no way in hell it's every going to go back into that box again. My only hope is that there are people out there, like us, who have had the same surgery and their bellies returned to normal which is why they aren't bitching like the rest of us on here. Wish we all had an answer.
Cheryl
Cheryl
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I said the exactly same thing to my doctor. If I knew then what I know now I would have continued on a metimucil regiment and forgo the surgery. My surgery was 2 months ago, I had 9 inches removed due to diverticulitis disease and heading towards a bowel rupture. Felt I had no other option but surgery. It was hell, but what I am experiencing now is still hell just a different kind. I don't think anyone gets it unless they go through it. I try and tell myself it could be a lot worse, I might not be here to speak of it, but unfortunately that still doesn't take away what I'm dealing with. Doctors and my surgeon can't offer any help, they use the gas that they blew into my abdominal cavity as an excuse for my 7 month swelly belly but they have no recourse as to what can now fix the problem. I wish you the best.
Cheryl
Cheryl
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I noticed your post was from over a year ago. Can you please tell me if your distended stomach every went away. I'm two months post op and my 7 month swelly belly is so uncomfortable. With summer coming I truly don't want to be living in yoga pants and maternity shirts. I hope you can offer some encouraging words.
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I had the reversal in may, and developed 2 hernias. dr fixed them, but I feel quite lousy. the thing is, I don't want no more surgery. go to b/r 10 x a day. one side of stomach is higher than the other side
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I too can not longer fit into any of
My clothes 6 months later with the butt cheeks in my abdomen and more on one side. It's so depressing.
And there never seems to be a answer anywhere . So
Many w the same problem yet no answers :(
My clothes 6 months later with the butt cheeks in my abdomen and more on one side. It's so depressing.
And there never seems to be a answer anywhere . So
Many w the same problem yet no answers :(
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