Re: Stomach Pain - 5 days Post-Op

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My biggest pain after the surgery was also heartburn- which I never

get. they gave me mylanta through the IV and eventually the pain went

away after a day or so.

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> I had upper and lower monday.  I have had problems eating food

> post-op.  I have mastered getting through my mouth and down the hatch,

> but the problem comes when the food/liquid hits the stomach.  It is

> the most severe pain of this whole process.  It is right a the bottom

> of my breast bone.  I just ball up on the floor and shrill with pain.

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> Room temp water seems to be the best and foods like apple sauce and

> pudding are bearable with a water chaser.

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> Oral Surgeon thinks it is heartburn, so is recommending OTC heart burn

> meds.  Mylanta does some soothing, but nothing seems to resolve the

> issue.

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> I think it is related to the NG tube.

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> Any guidence?

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[Guest guest]

Hi, nursefrancesca.

For what it's worth, a person dear to me has a g-peg feeding tube.

It saved a life, but it has been painful from the installation on.

From what I have been told, it's not sposed to be. Best conjecture

so far: it somehow wound up sitting on a nerve. You have any ideas

on that one?

The patient with the tube is frightened to get it out, although

there's no more reliance on it for nutrition, at least now. The

installation, and every moment with it since has been painful, and

when the docs or the nurses fiddle with it, (which, amazingly, they

have done for no good reason -- " When I talk, I like to keep my

hands busy! " ) that is, too -- although they all say there's no

reason.

This has nothing to do with orthognathic surgery -- nobody needs

such a tube for these procedures involved with the jaw -- at least,

nobody I've ever heard of. Just wondering.

C.

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> Do you still have the NG tube in? How long was it in for? I put NG

> tubes down kids all the time and have never had any of them report

> the pain that you described. Especially since it only occurs after

> you eat I would also go with the heartburn. Try Mylanta and if

that

> doesn't work I've heard great things about Nexium. Also small

> portions throughout the day versus a couple large...like we can

take

> anything large anyways. ha.

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