Had to have surgery

kitty16 · Post by **kitty16** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:56 am

Hi all,

This is the first chance I have had to come and let you know what has been going on and of course to ask you some questions.

Went to ER with stomach pain way over the number 10 diagnosed with a hernia that had incarcerated and had emergency surgery. No re-section needed. There was a lot of inflamation. They felt this has been going on for a while with the intestine slipping in and out. They had some comments about Gastro doctors in general, that this board would be proud of.

The doctors at the hospital could not answer this with anything more than a maybe. Could the hernia and inflamation have been causing the 10+ BM's a day. I still think I have some form of IBS/IBD but I had been able to control it with careful eating than about a year ago everything went off the charts with no help from anything.

Hope this is all making sense just got home from the hospital and still very out of it.

Hugs,
K

JFR · Post by **JFR** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:25 am

Hi Kitty,

Sorry to hear that you had to go through all this. I hope your recovery goes quickly and that you find that this surgery has eliminated your worst symptoms and that you can get back to being able to control things with dietary means.

jean

Post by **tex** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:47 am

Hi Kitty,

Welcome back. I'm glad they found the problem and fixed it before the situation become much more serious. Sure, any type of enteritis (inflammation of the intestine) can cause D. IMO, the answer given by the doctors at the hospital is pretty much on target, because while such a situation can certainly cause D, a frequency of 10 or more times per day would seem to be uncommon, unless the hernia prompted your MC to become active (which is certainly possible, since MC can be triggered by any form of chronic inflammation).

IOW, what I'm saying is that a frequency of 10+ BMs per day was probably caused by your MC, (rather than by the hernia per se), but the MC could certainly have been triggered by the hernia.

Tex

Leah · Post by **Leah** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:29 pm

Feel better soon Kitty.

Leah

Martha · Post by **Martha** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:46 pm

Dear Kitty,

I hope you have a good recovery from your surgery, and that MC symptoms die down too.

Love,
Martha

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:40 am

Hope you are feeling better Kitty and that the D has now diminshed.

Love, Maggie

kitty16 · Post by **kitty16** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:26 am

Hi,

Thank you all for your well wishes. I kinda feel like I was hit by a truck LOL

Tex I kept wishing you could have heard the Surgeon going on about how he has never met one Gastro doctor that had a brain. I know I'm over thinking all this but I can't understand how they were able to do colonoscopies if my intestines were not were they should have been. My wish is that after this is all healed I can return to leading an almost normal life by just doing careful eating. This had worked for me for many years.

Hugs to all,
K

Post by **tex** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 7:42 am

Kitty wrote:Tex I kept wishing you could have heard the Surgeon going on about how he has never met one Gastro doctor that had a brain.

Wow! He must have had some bad experiences with them.

I sure hope you get your wish.

Hugs,
Tex

carolm · Post by **carolm** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:36 pm

Kitty, I'm hoping this fixes some of the issues that were plaguing you. Rest up and keep us posted.

Carol

Lesley · Post by **Lesley** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:53 pm

Kitty - I am glad you are doing better. What a story.

Maybe the GIs get some form of MC of the brain causing it to leak out over the years?