Heal me.
I need a healin'.

How's this for POSITIVE?
We've been asked to be positive. And, to surround ourselves in positvity and only by positive people. Fine. I am trying.
I am positively in pain. Again!
My undiagnosed lower left quandrant is in another cycle of "Well, this could be damaging me interally somehow."
It keeps going slightly away and coming back to this point. Right at this moment, it feels like my lower intestine and uterus are being lit aflame and someone is turning a dull corkscrew into my left ovary.
Tylenol doesn't change the pain, and the trial of Bentyl that I have hasn't seemed to effect me yet, if it is at all a spamsmodic reaction.
It is the same as previously, with less upper gut stabbing. When the upper gut stabbing hit, I went to the ER. I thought I was having a heart attack. It was pancreatitis. This part is extra.
Someone emailed yesterday to ask if I'd consider "childhood abuse" as the cause of my cyclical uterine/colon pain. Um. No? I realize that we are in a community that has a high level of obesity related to abuse, I am not in that segment and I am thankful.
I guess it's time to find another doctor, who may likely shrug their shoulders at me, like the last OB I saw, "What do you want me to tell you?" after he pushed and prodded and told me I probably had fibroids and "Did anyone ever mention a hernia?"
Which came after surgery to discover this pain, BEFORE that, that revealed nothing out of the ordinary.
I walk around holding "it." I lay in bed, lifting up and sitting back, trying to find an indication of an external hernia. I can't tell.
It's broken. Something in my lower left gut/or girl parts is BROKEN, and HAS BEEN since at least December 2010. I am telling you, if I end up gutted like a fish and the doctors find a tumor filled with errant sugar alcohols, I TOLD YOU SO.
I'm just "positive" about it right now because DAMN IT, it hurts.
I just feel so bad for you. I wish I knew someone who could help you. I'd hand you a name and a phone number in a heartbeat. The surgeon who did my DS is head of laproscopic surgery at Cornell - if you think he could possibly help you, let me know and I'll give you his phone number.
I had several drs tell me the pain was in my head until a dr finally listened to me and actually went in and took a look around.
Good luck.
But I gotta mention that I'm befuzzled over childhood abuse stabbing you in the gut..... um..... I'm one of that demographic..... but the power of the badguys just doesn't extend to stabbing my gut 30 years later.
I'm POSITIVE that whoever suggested it was in your head (ie, the result of some nefarious badguy from your childhood) was an idiot.
And like others, I'm POSITIVE that you need a better doc.
~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
Edited again, I gather I need to get to bed as my reading skills are apparently not too good.. as you have addressed the hernia thing.. Surfing OH while sleepy=not so smart.
I'm going to see if I can find that article someone posted just recently..
Found it-
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/health/17brody.html
on 5/26/11 9:18 pm
I was walking with my husband one night and the pain was so bad that I had to set down on the ground against a tree for a few minutes. He was shocked and insisted I go back to the doctor and get things taken care of.
After the hysterectomy, the OB-Gyn told me that there was so much endometriosis twisted around my intestines that I should have been screaming with pain most of the time. This was more than 20 years ago. It made an incredible difference in my life to live without that pain.