Up until last week I have never had any issues related to my bypass surgery. Three years later and 206 pounds lost. Last Monday I ate lunch like normal and had immense pain in my abdomen come on out of nowhere. Like level 9 (and I have a very high pain tolerance usually). I threw up from the pain but it really felt like bad gas mixed with really bad period cramps. Because of the kind of birth control I'm on I rarely have a period. I had not had one in about five months and I was on day three of an out of the ordinary cycle. I contributed the intense pain on my lunch not agreeing with me and giving me gas pains mixed with just horrible cramps. I was in the fetal position on my office floor. I work with mostly all men and was embarrassed to let anyone know what was happening. At four I drove home in crazy pain and immediately got out my heating pads. I took two gas-x pills hoping to get some relief just to end up throwing them up. Before I knew it I was on the bathroom floor in level 9-10 pain crying and retching extremely hard. My husband said over and over again lets go to the ER, this seems way more then period pains. But I was so worried about people at the hospital thinking I was over reacting for coming to the ER for period issues I wouldn't go. I kept thinking the pain would pass. I hardly slept all night. I couldn't be flat or lay straight. I needed to be the smallest ball or hunched over in the sitting position. The next morning I went to urgent care and they told me I needed to go to the hospital. Yes I'm hard headed. Yes I should have listened to my husband the day before. After lots of bloodwork and a cat scan it showed part of my intestines were pushing in on itself. Intussusception.. the definition reads "a serious medical emergency where one segment of the intestine slides into an adjacent section, folding in on itself like a telescope. This telescoping blocks food and fluid from passing through, swells the tissue, and cuts off blood supply, which can lead to severe tissue damage if left untreated."

I was shocked and scared. My ER Dr put in a call to my surgeon and he requested I be taken by ambulance to the hospital he works at/ where my surgery was done for him to perform surgery if necessary. By time I was taken (around three hours) it was like someone flipped a switch and all the pain disappeared. He believes it corrected itself but in a few weeks he wants to make three small cuts in my stomach and double check all my intestines and correct anything that may need it as an outpatient procedure. Scary stuff but I'm happy I'm on the other side of it now.

Wow thats a story. I am so glad that your awful pain has gone. Fingers crossed for you. x Ps I learned a new word too.

Scheduled for surgery July 9th. My surgeon is concerned my intestines way twist up again. He said there was likely alot of fat surrounding them before and now they are free flowing and moving around too much. He said three small cuts and a couple small stitches internally. They are almost considering it like a hernia repair he said even though it is categorized as a revision surgery. I fully trust his decision and am not too worried.

It called a Peterson space repair or sounds like