Adhesions after omentum removed?

[Marypositive888]

Hi

Has anyone had stomach pain after having their omentum removed? I feel sick when I go over speed bumps and have pain on and off behind my belly button. My consultants thinks it may be due to adhesions. Has anyone had similar problems?

[Tesla_7US]

Please get a second opinion. After anastomosis surgery I was told I had become "one big intestinal adhesion" yet I had NO pain at all!

[Hidden]

Well, that's a bit more specific than I would say, but I did have my omentum removed, had stomach pain ( but higher up than belly button ) had a period of tending to retch or vomit.

This went on for quite some time - over a year - and was inconclusively explored as a possible bowel blockage; complicated by an overdue H Pylori diagnosis. An emergency admission two xmases ago led to bowel resection. The problem turned out to be post surgical adhesions which were stopping the bowel working by putting a brake on it. I've been fine in that respect since.

I hadn't realised that adhesions after surgery are common, even after quite simple surgery. Hope this helps. x

[devotedtolife55]

I have been experiencing an awful pain coming from my belly button, I cannot even touch it, and my surgery was nearly 5 years ago. My GP referred me for an ultrasound and this came back as "inconclusive, refer to oncology". Oncology checked the scan and said they did not need to biopsy and I did not hear any more. I remember the surgeon telling me he had "fixed" my belly button, after being moved during a previous surgery, as it was in the wrong position - it hadn't hurt at all after the previous surgery but it certainly does now. The trouble is, I feel awkward moaning about my belly button to oncologists and I never got to see the surgeon again.

[Hidden in reply to devotedtolife55]

One of the things they don't tell you with surgery is that you may continue to get pain as a result of it, I think.

I have sensitivities as a result of several surgeries, two of which can be exquisitely so: right thigh after hernia repair (poss as a result of an unavoidably severed nerve) and in the vicinity of my lumpectomy (ditto).

Living with it might be easier if we had been forewarned, I think!

[devotedtolife55 in reply to Hidden]

I agree with you. I too still have pain around my breast area nearly 18 years after a lumpectomy which was done in error after a misdiagnosed breast cancer and I also get electric shock type pains under my arm pit where the lymph nodes were removed. The trouble is once we have had a cancer, we are always on our guard for any further pain, which most of the time is completely unrelated.

[Kidlings]

hi, from Texas. Yes, I am being checked for adhesions tomorrow for the same issues, but I get more pain on my right side. Thought I was the only one with this!