Re: upper right side pain....STEPH>>>KIND OF LONG

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Steph,

I will try and answer your questions but this might get kind of

winded.

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> Gerri!

>

> What type of surgery did you have DS? RNY? .......

I had a laproscopic RNY.

>How did your docs find your situation? Were they properly reactive?

> I was misdiagnosed at the first hospital I went to so this issue

really

> concerns me for other women. What we had is rare but I think not

> enough ER docs are trained to spot this possibility.........

Well this one cannot be answered so easily. I was having off and on

pain, pretty bad, and had explained that to my surgeon. He brought

up that internal hernia could be a possibility but that he was not at

all certained about that because it was very rare. They did a bunch

of tests and ruled out any other GI problem he may have suspected.

The catscan had a shadow that they could not diagnose conclusively

one way or the other, but that it did make him a bit more suspect of

the internal hernia diagnosis. Basically, because I could no longer

tolerate the daily pain of it all, I elected to have him go in and

explore the problem and correct whatever it could be. As it turned,

out his suspitions were right on target and he corrected it.

Well...exactly a month later I started having this pain one night

which went from excruciating to absolutely horrible, unbearable,

intense, words cant even descibe, kind of pain in a matter of a few

hours. I started vomiting but there was there was no relief because

I basically had dry heaves and I knew that it had something to do

with my gastric bypass. I had to go in by ambulance and I am telling

you, the docs in the ER were a pain in the _ _ _!! I kept telling

them to call the surgeon in and they kept telling me that they had to

rule out anything on the " medical " service before they could call in

the " surgical " services. I explained the whole mess and they still

sent in gynecology to rule out an ovarian cyst! After what seemed

like an eternity I called my surgeon from the ER room with some

assistance from my husband and at about that time they came in and

said they were going to consult with surgical services because

everything else had been ruled out. If I had the strength I think I

would have reached out and choked him at that moment. Surgeons came

and concurred that they felt it was another internal hernia and I was

immediately sent to surgery. My docs have since told me they have

only 1% of their patients with this complication(out of over 900

surgeries) and that I was the ONLY one it has happened to twice.

Lucky me, huh?

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> Are you having a boy or girl with this one?

I am having a boy, who is scheduled for a c-section(MORE SURGERY!!)

on October 19th.

>

> Good luck!

Thank you!

Luck and laughter,

Gerri

37 weeks