To everyone, you are all so wonderful for providing
me (and others) so much advice about heating
pads...I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. I did
not sleep at all last night. 17 days after laparot.
and now I'm back to sleeping on my left side. Why?...I
don't know...with acidophilus I have had a daily bowel
movement...small baby stool and a lot of work. My
doctor said I should be 100% better. He said I should
have been better within 3-4 days....wish he were me
during this time...maybe he'd believe me more. I seem
to be having a problem with belching from the minute I
wake up to the time I go to bed. It happens with
water, applesauce, gatorade...there is no rhyme or
reason...my stomach has been bloating to the point of
looking pregnant...mostly after food...any form of...I
feel constipated, yet I shouldn't. I feel full even
if I don't eat all day. It was the first time I had
ever had surgeory...we were checking for endo...and
instead of endo it was adhesion involving the
intestine...I feel that this is some other intestinal
problem...gallbladder...something....has anyone had
symptoms like this shortly after surgeory involving
their intestine?...my OB doc has provided me with no
help...just that I should be better. These symptoms
are not in my head, I can't cause myself bloating like
this. The stomach seems so active...my pain is all
over...it's most tender on the left side
mid-abdomen...not so much where my pain was before (my
pain before was lower left pelvic area...as my ovary
was involved. I have been released to go back to
work tomorrow and frankly, I'm scared I won't sleep
tonight, and that it'll take me hours to function
abdominally and bowel wise tomorrow...I feel I'll need
to be up by 3AM to make it to work by 7. If you've
had problems with your gallbladder, kidney, liver,
pancreas, or appendix....can you tell me if this
sounds like any of that...my bro had his appendix out,
my father his gallbladder (which gangrened and almost
killed him)...I have a gastro appt to set with my PCP
tomorrow after work and I want to know all the
possibilities....drs. make me nervous and I always
forget what I want to say...for fear they'll belittle
me in some way...so, I have written a pain log as
suggested by Helen's e-mail. Lot's of good info.
Janet---You go girl...we are all so proud of you.
Sally---feel better, too....everyone..."pain-free to
you". Curiousity....if you could go back to the first
time you had adhesion removal...would you do it again?
It seems so many of you suffer more because of
surgeory...if it weren't for bowel blockage...I'd have
lived with my pain...knowing what I know now. Marianne