Marginal/anastomotic ulcer anyone?

[Frustr8 7,886]

And Good and Good Healing, I wish THAT for everyone but especially US. The Stricture/Ulcer wars do tire a body out!😧

[mousecat88 2,279]

Just an update: still having intermittent severe abdominal pain in spite of 5 months of compounded Prilosec twice a day, max Pepcid, and Carafate. My surgeon said I should have healed after two months so I got another scope today (my 3rd since May). My ulcer has healed on the inside. He said I may have an ulcer on the outside of the cuff which would need a revision=big darn deal. I could have an abscess touching the liver which has a lot of pain receptors. Or I could have a stricture (scarring) which would be an easy fix. I am hoping for easy. He said to switch to Dexilant and continue Pepcid and just see how I do.

I was just "tentatively" diagnosed with an ulcer. I am only 15 days from surgery. It is right where my esophagus meets my new stomach. I am utterly miserable. Endoscopy Monday... I am on Pepcid and Carafate, but today I also started vomiting everything I tried to eat, except Water. Had I suspected I would be one of the few to get this, I would have never had the surgery. Took my chances and lost.

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[chattycat 91]

I can honestly say if I had read this thread before surgery I probably would not have gone forward with mine.....😞

Praying for fast healing for all 🙏🙏🙏

[mousecat88 2,279]

Marginal ulcer confirmed right along the staple line where my stomach and intestine meet. Not nearly as gnarly looking as yours, though. On Carafate for 30 days and Pepcid for 3 months. I hope it isn't recurrent! No clue how long it'll take to heal. It is what it is, I suppose. Just gotta keep moving on...

[Frustr8 7,886]

5, Darlin' I have 5 evil Stripe the Gremlin-type along with Hector, my original Gizmo, quiet and not making more trouble in the other, not -so -connected portion. See I went in with gastritis and Hector at the beginning of this farce. I should have been on Carafate from the beginning, not had to wait until a month had elapsed, We Are playing Catch-Up now.
I'm not going Friday, can't be seen until a week from tomorrow at 8 AM, apparently Dr Noria is taking herself a little Holiday for Thanksgiving, ours not hers, she graduated University in Toronto, so she belongs still to Royal College of Surgeons as well as the American ones.
And I don't know if I emotionally can keep going biweekly into 2019. How much longer until they threaten or do open surgeries?
Maybe I NEVER WILL BE truly well again, what a ROTTEN finale to my story that will be!😷😟😪😥

[yaeger80 0]

I. Think I have something my stomach hurts so bad not my pouch but just above the belly button a bit higher but seems like an awful cramp idk if I should go to er or would it be consolation? Plus on top I’ve had oral thrush for 6 weeks and an awful smell in my nose I really regret this surgery right now

[Frustr8 7,886]

Sounds more like lower bowel pain than our evil ulcer friends. You could have thrush bacteria irritating your colon, have you been going #2 frequently enough? Smell in nose could be the fact you are now starting to burn off those fat reserves. I have had such a bad taste I swore somebody was going to smell it and make nasty remarks. Your thrush meds could have also killed off your good bowel bacteria, maybe start Probiotics? Just a few of my thoughts. And I don't regret my surgeries, endoscopy and all, I regret the way my body is acting.😪😟😪

[yaeger80 0]

No I don’t go #2 at all I used Miralax and that worked once to go but on my own no I’m 7 weeks post opt I know I don’t eat anywhere close to my Protein intake so u think the pain is just maybe from that then?

[Frustr8 7,886]

May you only be full of 💩,know I am, will take a dose of MoM as soon as my tummy settles down from the last puke-a-sode, tried eating 2 teaspoons of softcooked apple, Precious Pouch was not amused and let me know it!

[Frustr8 7,886]

Well I took my MoM , had results last evening , painful, everything still soft but in one giant lump right inside the hole. Like my colon muscles forget how to work naturally. Oh maybe if. I add solids someday. it will start working right again?

[crivera7777 6]

I just found out I have one
I was in and out of the hospital and no one could tell me what’s going on and so I had to EDG to find out that I have an ulcer

[Frustr8 7,886]

Welcome to our select club, main difference from many others, We All Cheer when You're Able to Leave Us! In the meantime, hang around, you are among friends HERE!😜💊😜

[DebbieSlimer 13]

How long before pain calms down I am trying to avoid the Percocet and ox I I am trying to get through he pain I am very new I just had surgery on 11/19/2018 and already can’t stand the binder

[Frustr8 7,886]

Well Sit quietly and loosen it. Pain go away? As days go by, it will lessen. Away , well that I myself am not privy to. Precious Pouch sits in my chest like a little angry clenched fist, between her and her gastric/intestinal ulcer sidekicks, all 5 of them, at 11 weeks still not pain free. And it gets tedious for me, but I have not given up hope, I still believe in healing, no matter how many endoscopic interventions my Dr Noria has to do, I like her,i trust her, she is a wonderful surgeon as well as endoscopist, endoscopy is her "bang zone" something she enjoys the challenge of, but she is a Bariatric and Gastrointestinal Surgeon foremost, if she and my bypass surgeon, Bradley J Needleman MD felt I would be better served by an Open intervention I would be in their OR before I could hum the first 6 bars of Buckeye Battle Cry. And I suspect,they would scrub in together, I have become important to them both, and they both want my mystery solved. Wednesday November 28th will be my 4th at OSU, 6th lifetime, and little by little I move toward resolution of Stricture, Ulcer abatement and a pain-free or pain-deminished recovery Trying to remain placid, confident, accepting, but ,I too, shake my fist and rage at it all!

[Frustr8 7,886]

Well things are as they are- coming to,👼peace with that- But I still pray🙏 no one else has THIS happen to THEM!