Hi everyone, first of all thank you for taking the time to read my post. I had my Gall Bladder out last year in April. Since then I have had nothing but problems, I don't know whether it is all connected to having this removed but I think it is too much of a coincidence. First I have had severe pain from the incision in the middle of my stomach area, every time I bend down to do something it hurts and when I touch it, I only had keyhole surgery, I had an ultrasound scan and it never showed up anything? I am constantly burping after eating and drinking which is very embarrassing, I never did this before, I feel constantly full all the time and my stomach is bloated which it never was before the operation. I recently had tests, stool samples and one of the stools showed blood in the bowel, probably because I am severely constipated. I am as yet waiting for a camera up my bottom which is supposed to be urgent and within 2 weeks, the doctor even wrote to say it could be bowel cancer, and still I am waiting after 6 weeks nothing. I am very worried not about the possible cancer because personally I don't think I have this but my other symptoms which I never had before my operation. I wish I had never had it done now? could anyone give me any advice? thank you in advance.
Pain in the stomach area: Hi everyone, first of... - Pain Concern
Pain in the stomach area
Problems after gallbladder surgery are common yet Drs continue to tell us the surgery will have no negative effects ! Both to much and to little bile plus the lack of the gallbladder to store it can cause huge issues. I personally had massive problems post op, turned out to be bile acid malabsorption, now fixed with medication although I can’t eat certain foods.
Thank you for your reply and advice, I was offered a camera down my throat to see what is going on? I was told that I could be put to sleep to have this done, but when the nurse phoned me to book it I was told that they don't put you to sleep so I declined it. I have had this done many years ago and I fitted and they couldn't do it. I mentioned this to the nurse but she said that they would not put me to sleep. I think this is ridiculous, I can't physically have it done, so I will never know what is wrong with me? I know my symptoms are due to acid reflux or something like this because in the mornings I have a horrible sickly taste in the mouth and to me that isn't normal. I don't know why the doctor can't just give me medication to help me? all she said is take Gaviscon which obviously doesn't work. I hardly eat anymore due to feeling full and bloated all the time, which again is a worry because I am not getting the nutricients and calories that I need day to day and I have a very energetic job which I need more calories for. It is a vicious circle.
It’s so difficult if Drs are slow to help. I’m lucky in that I’m already under Gastro for ulcerative colitis and they are pretty good, if I had to rely on my GP I wouldn’t get anywhere !
Maybe try another hospital for your endoscopy, somewhere must offer GA for it.
The problem is unless I go private which I can't afford, there is no other hospital that I can have? I have asked that already, I think it is ridiculous how I can't go anywhere else. xx
You have the right to choose which hospital you are referred to, even in a different county. Phone around day surgery units to find out if they will do what you need then tackle your GP.
All I get from the doctor is you can only use your local one. I have never heard this before but I don't have the best doctors. I have moved area and I could only get in this doctor's practice, this is probably why? xx
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This explains that you have the right to choose, if your GP is unhelpful then you may have a battle !
Have you tried taking omeprezole along with a good prebiotic? I can't believe they will not put you to sleep to have that procedure done here in the US I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy done a few months ago and they had put me under they did the endoscopy and colonoscopy at the same time here in the US 40 or over they want you to have it done at least every 10 years I had it done because I was having severe stomach pain due to chronic pain issues and the amount of Advil I was taking was ruining the lining of my stomach however I understand you're talking about your gallbladder but when I was going through the stomach problems I really couldn't eat my stomach hurt all the time and just felt sick my doctor told me to take Omeprazole every day for 14 days along with probiotics to this day I still take probiotics it's been wonderful but I do believe that I have too many medications and it causes a lot of stomach issues I wish you the best of luck and I would push for them to put you under for anesthesia while you have that procedure if they're not going to do it find somebody else that's actually unacceptable that they don't put you under for that I'm sorry to hear that I wish you the best
I have same symptoms as you. I take omeprazole. It helps keeps the acid at bay. Maybe ask your doc. I also had camera down throat. They gave me option of numb my throat or go cold turkey. I went cold turkey and all I felt was slight gag.
My husband is on the same medication as you and he had a camera down his throat and he said never again. He isn't soft or anything he is quite tough but that floored him. It turned out to be Barratts syndrome and without the tablets he would be so poorly. I think i could have something like that or a stomach ulcer which I hope it is because they will hopefully go with an operation or medication. xx
yes I had stomach ulcer and with the meds it a whole lot better so fingers x for you.
Thank you Catr12, for some reason a lot of people are getting stomach ulcers. Did you have tests to find it or did the doctor just give you medication? it feels as though food isn't going to my stomach and is getting blocked and my stomach is very swollen even though my appetite is very poor. xx
Doc gave me the tablets to try to see if they helped. No tests done. I take 10 milligrams a day. Tummy bloated, muscle spasms as well 🙈. Sometimes I wonder is it a tummy bug
wonder if we have ibs
No I haven't got IBS? I have been tested for that and at first the doctor said that I had because this is what they tell patients if they have problems with their bowels, it turned out that I hadn't got it because my symptoms wasn't the same. Booby Moore the footballer was told umpteen times that he had IBS, he got a second opinion and he had stage 3 bowel cancer and didn't live long after that.
that’s right I remb read about Bobby. So you are going to have to push to find out what is wrong. You can’t be left like that. Few months ago I went on holiday and it was spoilt with the pain every few days of the muscle spasms and bloated. Think I’m going to call doctor again. Let me no how you get on
Thank you for your reply, My doctor phoned me tonight to ask me if I wanted the camera down my throat which I had declined because they wouldn't put me to sleep. I am now told that there are other hospitals that I could choose but the nurse who phoned me originally while I was on a packed bus going to work, I didn't want to tell her my symptoms while everyone was listening in to my conversation, the doctor who phoned wasn't interested. I thought symptoms were confidential and very private. Obviously not! anyway the doctor is now referring me to have both procedures, my stomach and bottom. I had a text message to say because I hadn't heard anything to phone and they will chase it up. I spoke to the receptionist and she said she would inform the doctor which she didn't because he didn't know about it until I told him I have already waited 5 weeks now for the original test for bowel cancer, I should have waited 2 weeks and that is including the test. I just hope I don't have to wait much longer, it is the not knowing that is worrying me, but the doctors don't seem to understand that because it isn't their health. xx
yes it bad they don’t seem to care and I hate when they say they will call and then they don’t. It has to be something that’s what I keep thinking to myself. Pity you couldn’t the camera honesty it wasn’t bad. We are all different thou. Let me no how you get on and thanks for your reply
Thank you I will do. I got a text today to tell me there was a cock up with my appointment for the camera up the bottom, The system went down so they have had to refer me again. I have already waited weeks for this appointment and they hadn't even referred me or at least checked. I am sick of begging the doctors for the appointment, they have scared me saying that they are testing for bowel cancer and then they leave me in limbo. It is absolutely ridiculous.xx
yes that’s not right and you will be worried sick. My friend also has to go for camera at her bottom. They found abnormalities in her poo. She was messed about to they were to call her and didn’t. Then said they did and said there should be miss calls from 0800 number. There was no miss calls and she is like you repeatedly trying to chase them up. Terrible 😞
I hope she get's some help soon? it is awful how patients are treated, whether they are on strike or not they should look after the people who could have something seriously wrong with them. I haven't been diagnosed with anything yet because I haven't had any tests and the doctor is already saying to contact Macmillan nurses for advice, WHY? I am a born worrier anyway and no doctor should be saying this and then wait for weeks to get an appointment. My immune system is low as well I have constant colds and they are flu like symptoms, I have a cold for a week then I get over it and then about 2 weeks later I get another cold, this has been happening for 6 months now. I don't know whether everything is connected or not but is seems as though it is, I just hope they can sort that our as well, but I doubt it? I don't have much faith in the National Hopeless Service. xx
It not right to keep people hanging on like this. Why would a doctor say that contact Mac M. That just puts worry into people. My immune system is always low with my rheumatoid arthritis. That’s not right either having constant colds. Hope your referral doesn’t take too long. If it does I be call them up and ask how long will it roughly take.
Thank you for your concern. I finally got a telephone call this morning while I was at work and not on the bus like previously. The nurse was really nice, asked me lots of questions to see If I needed a Colonoscopy, I do and I am booked in for a week on Sunday at 8.30am, on the Thursday before I have to go to the local hospital to pick up laxatives so that my bowel is empty for the procedure. I started a new job this week and I am already having time off. This can't be helped though and I wasn't to know I would be having lots of tests done. Hopefully I have an understanding boss. After this procedure I have to have a camera down my throat too this will be sometime in the next 2 weeks so I will be having yet more time off. At the moment I am ill and I am usually fit and healthy but recently I have all these illnesses all at once. I just hope the doctor can sort me out so that I can carry on working. xx
oh that’s great news things are moving at last. Nothing you can do but to take time off. Your health comes first. Easy to say as we have to work. I have two part time jobs. One is in a tesco express standing for hours at the till. By time I finish I can hardly walk with sore legs and ankles due to my arthritis 🙈. Keep in touch and let me no how you get on and thank you for let me no.
You should seriously request them to do both at the same time it does not make sense for them to do it separately they can actually put you out or put you under anesthesia and do both at the same time there should not be a need for a second appointment and as far as time off from your job don't worry about your job your health is so much more important you have to take care of yourself because your job is not going to remember that I used to always put my job first and put myself off the older I get the less I care about my job now I don't work because I'm disabled but don't do it to yourself take care of yourself please and follow your instincts we are the ones that know our bodies we know what we feel and what's going on within us please I hope you feel better and I hope you advocate for yourself do not be afraid stand up for what you think is right I think and honestly I don't know how it is there I'm speaking from the United States when I had my colonoscopy done they did both at the same time because I had stomach ulcers from too much Advil so please ask them to do the both at the same time it's possible they just don't want to do it but beg them and you will be fine the next day you'll be given laxatives you'll clean everything out you going you take basically they knock you out you take a nap you wake up and you go home doesn't hurt nothing's wrong you feel good so don't worry about that but I wouldn't do it awake obviously I wish you luck honey love and light
Hi, luckily for me there was nothing wrong with me. They just scared me into thinking that there was. I have to be so careful having any operation due to having CRPS and the last operation I had, my blood pressure went seriously low which has never happened before, when I woke up I looked like the michellin man, I was strapped to a machine which was pumping out hot air to take my blood pressure down. Luckily it worked, Now I am scared to have any procedure done where I am put to sleep, in case it happens again. xx
I am sorry to hear you are still in pain. You say you had the camera down many years ago. Things will have changed a lot since then. They are much smaller, and they don't have to go through your mouth, they just slip it up your nose. Most people have no problem with it, and they don't usually even sedate people anymore, let alone put them to sleep. But I can understand why you are anxious.
Many of these diagnostic tests are now done by private companies even if it appears that it is with the NHS. And they like to do things fast as that is how they make more money. So they won't have the facilities to sedate people. But if you talk to your GP or your local PALs you might be able to have it done by an NHS hospital instead with more time given and more support.
Thank you for your reply and advice. My friend as I found out today at work, my first day, has the same symptoms as me and the doctor thinks she has a stomach ulcer but they haven't tested her for it, they have gave her medication and she feels so much better now. I don't know why they can't do this with me? my other friend was put to sleep to have it done with no problems. Again why can't I? I know there is definitely something wrong with my stomach because of how I feel. They should sort it out, that is what we pay the NHS for to help the patient.xx
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