Doreen -
Please get that intermittent low abdominal pain checked out ASAP, and don't take "nothing wrong with you" for an answer. There are several possible causes for such symptoms and most of them are quite unpleasant if you let it go too long.
My husband's grandmother lived with something very similar for ages - nobody took her seriously because she was a little bitty woman who they just thought was looking for attention. WELL - she finally got it a couple of years ago - at midnight in an OR for emergency surgery in a hospital in Florida. They found they had to remove part of her large intestine because adhesions had developed over the years, and basically "strangled" part of her gut until it cut off the blood flow. She came very, very close to not living through the whole ordeal - even her doctors were surprised that she came out as well as she did. Sadly though - and totally unrelated, Grandma passed in January. Please let us know how you are doing.........
Shari
Doreen, heed what Shari said - pleeze.
I've got pretty steady back pain - worse as the weather gets colder. I was told I might need back surgery, but have been controlling it with chiropratic. Besides, I'm too young (yeh right) to have something debilitating.
When the sun is shining, so is my attitude, and the pain is not noticeable. !!!
I have adheasions.That have attached to my bladder and intestines.
My Gyno wanted them removed when it was just my liver and intestines.But no surgeon will do it that I've been sent to.Been told over and over,over the years that they dont remove them anymore.Now it's affected my bladder comfort.I also have scar tissue in my Virgina.Get it\Course no one has gone inside an actually take a look see.Since I had my hysterectomy.But they say they know what's happening!
So I take Trammadol and muscle relaxers.
I try very hard to deal with this bad situation.Some days it gets to me.
I am so sorry you have such pain. I have a herniated disc in my low back and suffer intense pain when I do regular chores, consequently I don`t do much. My work builds up and then I don`t feel like doing anything because of the guilt. I am a mess sometimes! LOL I can laugh at myself sometimes and that helps. We seem to hurt more when we get older but considering the alternative I think it is worth it!! LOL
Hugs,
Juanita
Sounds like it's time to find a new doctor. The adhesions can be released without having to "remove" them. I've done that surgery before with several of the surgeons I've scrubbed with in the OR. To leave them and ignore them and have them say "they know what's going on" is to invite disaster. It's adhesions that have caused more large and small intestinal blockages than anything else, and when they squeeze down on the tissues and cut off the blood flow, that tissue dies, and causes a great deal of pain, and can create gangrene and peritonitis inside the abdomen. A simple diagnostic laparoscopy, or even an MRI can get a picture of what's going on in there.
As for being "too young" to live with anything debilitating, our daughter developed some pretty severe back pain as a young teenager. Our family doc kept saying "She's too young to have serious back problems" but I knew better when it put her in bed in tears. So, I got her to an ortho doc, and had him check her out. The long and short of it is she had inherited the same back condition that I inherited from my mother, and for which I have already had two major surgeries, 5 years apart, before I was 45, including a spinal fusion with bone graft from my hip and screws and rods. SHE had to have the same surgery done by a neurosurgeon before she was 21! She's doing very well and has managed to present us with four beautiful grandchildren since then - so back surgery can be very successful if done right under the right circumstances.
So - nobody is too young to have serious problems - and EVERYBODY deserves proper care for their needs. If you can't get it from one place, you just have to keep looking. Teaching hospitals are sometimes the best resources for such care - they are teaching the latest techniques and want to graduate professionals who are knowledgeable and proficient with patient care. Sometimes you have to look a ways from home - sometimes it's right in your own backyard..........
Great reply Shari D...I so agree.
PS: DW...to answer your question...I'm better now. About three weeks ago, I felt bad due to a heart condition for about 8 days. Last week we vacationed near the ocean and I didn't have an episode once. Now for you.....meant to say in my above reply....I hope your health issues get resolved properly and that you are feeling much better real soon. Take care of yourself...and "listen" to ShariD.
Awe Thank You for your words.
I've tried for quite a few years.To the point my Gstro doesnt relish me coming in.He gets kinda defensive.Saying I wont give you a referal for surgery.So I stop suggesting it.
Diva
I wanna go.Next time you go to the ocean.Sounds peaceful in my mind
Time for a new Gastroenterologist. He's denying you access to potentially appropriate care, for his own selfish reasons - his ego. There's absolutely no reason for any doctor to get "defensive" unless he's got something to hide! A referral is the thing that might expose his lack of proper care - and he knows it. Getting a second opinion - from a SURGEON who does this kind of surgery is not going to do him any harm - but it may save YOU from grievous injury at the hands of the doctor who doesn't want his shoddy care to be exposed. DO NOT TAKE NO for an answer. Your health depends on it. Being proactive instead of reactive saves more lives than anything else there is. It's time to speak up for yourself and tell him if he doesn't give you a referral for a second opinion from a surgeon, then you will find someone who WILL, and then ask him what he's trying to HIDE. If he gets overly defensive on that question, then you have your answer, and for the sake of your own health it's time to move on. Pain is a signal that something is WRONG and you should heed it with all speed.
