I was floating along just fine until last Thursday, which was three weeks post-op. That day I had horrible upper and lower abdominal pain all day. I had terrible gas and six bowel movements, which got looser as the day went along, ending in yellow diarrhea. Friday it was better but by day's end it was back to horrible pain and yellow diarrhea again. Middle of the night I woke up in pain so bad I thought I was going to pass out, had another bowel movement, and it eventually passed. Saturday morning I called my surgeon, was told to just do fluids that day, and if it didn't get better to go to the ER. The pain was better all day but still had a BM that evening, same thing. This morning I woke up nauseous and in pain, took my morning meds and felt gaggy just swallowing Water. A half hour later I had a similar BM and decided it was time to go the ER.

They did blood work and a contrast CT and said everything was normal. I'm supposed to be having an upper endoscopy tomorrow to check for a stricture but my surgeon (who did see me in the ER) isn't sure that's the issue with all of the symptoms that I'm having. The upper pain is on the left below my ribs, center under my sternum, and right below my ribs straight through to my back. The lower abdominal pain is crampy and all over. The upper pain comes and goes and is worse when I eat or drink, though it does happen even when I'm not. It's sharp/stabby and crampy/dull/burning. No fever or vomiting. The only pain when pressing on my abdomen is on the left side.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I'm at my wit's end. I can't eat or drink anything at this point without massive pain and nausea. The thought of anything besides water turns my stomach. I don't know what will happen if they don't find a stricture. I hadn't even progressed much as far as diet. The day before the symptoms started I tried scrambled eggs, which sat fine in my stomach. I've been off of surgical pain meds since five days post op, was walking miles every day, had loads of energy and was doing fine. My incisions are totally healed. I'm totally stumped.

It will get better. Don't push too hard with food. Protein shakes are okay, too, while you're healing. Vitamins are very important, too, since deficiencies can cause more pain and many fibro people are all ready borderline or deficient in one or more micronutrient anyway. Do you take muscle relaxers? I found those were also very helpful for stomach cramping and pain in my topmost incision, and my surgeon had said ahead of time that it probably would.

Hi yes I take amitriptyline , I've tried Protein shakes , and yes I know I'm not taking anything like enough protein but I just gag (

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It's still early in the process for you. Any protein is better than nothing so don't beat yourself up too much. Try a different kind of shake, maybe. I really liked Isopure because they are thin like milk and taste great. If you make them with milk of some type then that packs in the protein even more when you can only get little bits down at a time. They also make an unflavored powder you can add to stuff, but it's not completely tasteless (at least to me) so it's better when added to applesauce or things like that. Maybe that would open up some possibilites for you.

I was rny 9/26/16 and some of what your explaining I have been dealing with.

I woke up from surgery screaming my left rib cage was in so much pain. They told me it was gas. A week later when I saw the surgeon I told him it still hurts a great deal. He said it appears I have a bruised rib and it will heal it just takes time. Over the last week I have been in so much pain in my lower left back with my ribs only really hurting when I breath deep. The other pain is not quite constant.

My other issue is I'm dealing with cycle pain and si joint dysfunction. Because of my back pain I've been sleeping weird and my si joint has slipped put of place. I see my pcp tomorrow and I'm hoping he will give me some pt to do. Or something with this pain.

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Thanks so much for all the good advice will be trying different Protein shakes , pain a little bit less today too so hopefully I have turned a corner!

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