Re: saw dr. today in RE: my upper right side pain

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keep us posted. glad hte dr is being so thorough.

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saw dr. today in RE: my upper right side pain

well i called the dr. this morning, and talked with the nurse. her

1st suspect was my gallbladder too. bt since i don't have one, she

asked for me to come in and get checked out. i saw the dr. and he

spoke fast and asked a lot of questions... he pushed around and felt

up and down my body. he asked about my history of my previous

adhesions, hernia, and asked about my liver... then, he had the

nurse write me out a slip to have an internal ultrasound tomorrow

AM, and more extensive bloodwork done. he kind of scared me when he

said he wanted to rule out an ectopic pregnancy! he said i have no

real other signs (no bleeding, spotting, " cramps " or fever, etc.)

but he wants to be safe. he said b/c i am a post op GB, he wants to

use caution and rule out the worst first, then deal with scar

tissue, etc.

he deals with just about all of us in my area (my GB dr. sends all

his preggos to him).... he is aware of our condition and risks. he

also handles high risk pregnancies, on the daily basis... so i am

comfortable with him and his decisions. plus i have a real good

friend who is a family dr. and she said he is awesome and when she

gets pregnant, he's gonna be her dr. so he sounds good, huh? trust

is the key.

i will let you guys know what i find out about these darn side

pains. you know they haven't even really hurt much today though (i

think i am phyching myself out)... geees, i just thought it was

something simple. oh well, one day at a time and i'm not stressing

until i know for sure and then i will! )

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I hope the ultrasound gives you the answer you need but if it doesn't

I highly recommend that you ask for a cat scan if the pain continues

or worsens.

I had a very similar sounding pain in my upper right side while

pregnant. Because I was pregnant the docs did not want to do a cat

scan to protect the baby so I just had an ultrasound which really

can't show you much.

A few weeks after my ultrasound, while 5 1/2 months pregnant, I was

rushed into surgery to have a third of my intestines removed. The pain

I was feeling was the beginnings of what would become 8 feet of

completely dead intestines.

I really don't want to alarm you because all of us have such different

situations, no two stories will be the same. But I thought I would

encourage you to ask for the Catscan if the ultrasound does not find

the solution.

Good luck and keep us posted..I am very curious what the docs find.

STEPH

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Steph,

This is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to describe a couple

of weeks ago to someone else! I was lucky enough that I did not have

to have any portion of my intestine removed but the docs told me that

it could be a complication of an internal hernia left untreated. I

had to have the same surgery(repairing this internal knot in my

intestines) twice so far(pre pregnancy). I can only HOPE TO GOD it

never happens again, as it was some of the worst pain I have had in

all my life! I have had 3 children, 3 c-sections, a gastric bypass,

surgery to have a pin inserted in my ankle and am on my 4th pregnancy

and I am quite sure nothing will ever compare to that pain.

Gerri

37 weeks

Boston, Massachusetts

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>I was rushed into surgery to have a third of my intestines removed.

The pain

> I was feeling was the beginnings of what would become 8 feet of

> completely dead intestines.

>

> I really don't want to alarm you because all of us have such

different

> situations, no two stories will be the same. But I thought I would

> encourage you to ask for the Catscan if the ultrasound does not find

> the solution.

>

> Good luck and keep us posted..I am very curious what the docs find.

>

> STEPH