Re: I called my doctor about the pain...

[Guest guest]

> After speaking with my doctors office about the pain in my lower

abdomen, we

> agreed that it is either a pulled muscle from excessive coughing or

a hernia.

> Since I don't have a fever and I don't feel sick (just in pain),

they don't

> think it is any kind of obstruction. At this point they are having

me try to

> find a lump (which I think I did) and try a heating pad to see if it

helps.

> I am supposed to call back tomorrow and give them a progress report

Kathy: Wow! I hope you feel better soon... Perhaps it is a hernia

(this is what I thought but just from COUGHING?)... Perhaps it isn't

one that requires immediate emergency surgery or anything like that...

Hopefully it is only a pulled muscle (this can happen from excessive

coughing,t oo). Thanks for giving us an update -- I was concerned.

Let us know what's up tomorrow!

all the best,

lap ds with gallbladder removal

january 25, 2001

Dr. Gagner/Mt. Sinai/NYC

10 months post-op and still feelin' fabu

preop: 307lbs/bmi 45

now: 204 lbs/size s

[Guest guest]

Kathy -

Please be careful. I'm not trying to alarm you (or anyone else) but I

had pretty constant pain with my hernia. It was so bad I couldn't

bend much without severe problems. I never ran a fever and didn't

feel sick. My DS surgeon kept saying I shouldn't have that much pain.

The local general surgeon I consulted for the hernia repair had to be

talked into the surgery. When he got in there he found my small bowel

was about to rupture. I was never constipated or had any of the

symptoms associated with an obstruction, only the pain.

Maybe you could get an Xray or CT scan. (Then again, it didn't show

up on either of those for me. It usually does for most patients.)

P

> After speaking with my doctors office about the pain in my lower

abdomen, we

> agreed that it is either a pulled muscle from excessive coughing or

a hernia.

> Since I don't have a fever and I don't feel sick (just in pain),

they don't

> think it is any kind of obstruction. At this point they are having

me try to

> find a lump (which I think I did) and try a heating pad to see if

it helps.

> I am supposed to call back tomorrow and give them a progress report

and if it

> isn't a whole lot better, they will schedule me to see the surgeon

on

> Thursday. Of course if the pain gets really bad I am supposed to

page them

> ASAP. Hopefully this isn't a hernia because I really don't want

another

> surgery so soon.

>

> Thanks for all your support and I will keep you posted on what

happens.

>

> Kathy M.

> DS 7/19/01

> 213 pre-op

> 146 today