Re: ??????

From: tinky (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Sun Jul 15 21:12:11 2001


Hey Marianne, One little piece of data from someone who has had a lot of surgeries.... They usually stick alot of gas in you so they can work during a lap. That can make me feel uncomfortable and bloated for days afterwards. Then, I usually stay bloated for weeks afterwards, just because there seems to be a lot of extra (now remember i have endo but i think this is similar) fluid in the area, like one would bloat before ones period.

Then, usually around 3 weeks, it settles down. Maybe you are a sensitive sort and your body knows it got banged around so you still have pain - again, it always takes several weeks for the pain to abate for me after a lap, especially if my ovary had been touched/lasered.

My last surgery, especially, when my intestines also got lasered, it took MONTHS for my bowels to settle down. ANd i had to eat a low residue diet, like the rest of you do.

That being said, I would suggest you watch yourself carefully, lay off the acidopholus a couple of days if you can, cause your own body needs to rebalance itself a little, eat a little if you can and see what happens. If you are not better fast (since you are hitting that 3 weeks point) you go trot in and kick some doctor butt.

Thats my advice. :) And of course, based only on my personal experience.

feel better fast!!! -tinky At Sun, 15 Jul 2001, marianne bolding wrote: >
>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


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