Re: ??????

From: marianne bolding (ojowojo@yahoo.com)
Tue Jul 17 08:56:47 2001


Thanks Tinky...my OBGYN doc says that all the gas gets pretty much pumped out after surgeory...he said it should only take a few days to disipitate. However, my PCP said that my intestines need more time to get back on a routine. When you work...there is no time for these stupid...painful problems. --- tinky <anonymous@medispecialty.com> wrote: > 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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