1 yr 2 months Post Op- 3rd Hernia already!

Sep 03, 2010

This is getting redundent.  I just finished paying off my last(March 2010) Hernia surgery medical bill Wednesday and here I am diagnosed with another hernia.  What luck.  Let me explain to you how my week started and so far has ended:
* Sunday night I had a very light Margarita (1oz Jose Cuervo and 12 oz of Margarita mix).
* Monday I wake up with a mean azz temporal headache, dry mouth, body aches, runny nose and sore throat. 
* Tuesday i'm feeling a bit worse with the cold symptoms so I schedule an appt with my primary MD for Wednesday morning.
* Wednesday morning i'm feeling great so i cancel my MD appt.  I had 1/2 slice of thin crust pizza for lunch which I washed down with water 10 min after eating.  I immediately began to have sharp abdominal pain.  I thought for sure it was because i mixed the food and liquids too soon (didn't wait 20-30 min) Pain lasted for about 2 hours and then I felt fine. 
* Thursday I woke up feeling fine.  I ate 6 oz of shrimp for lunch and had 1 bite of my sons cheeseburger.  I started to have severe abdominal pain again.  It felt like the food was stuck in my stomach so I took a shot of Milk of Magnesium in hopes it would resolve.  From 12pm-5pm I was on my hands and knees with on/off excrutiating pain.  I had called my WLSurgeon at 2pm and he said he was in surgery all day and would not be able to see me until 9am Friday morning.  At 5pm I took some Vicodin for the pain.  The water I drank to take the pill caused me pain.  @ 2am, 4am, 6am I threw up so much liquids it was coming out my mouth, nose and even from my eyes!  After all the barfing I felt so much better and no longer had the sharp abdominal pain.
* Friday morning i'm not having any abdominal pain but I still go to my WLSurgeon appt.  By the time i'm at the appt I noticed my abdomen looked distended (I looked 3 months pregnant).  He palpated my abdomen and sure enough, he says it's most likely another hernia.  He says, "since your not having pain right now we can wait and see how you do over the holiday weekend and I will schedule to follow up with you Tuesday to setup surgery for Wednesday morning first thing.  If you have severe pain from here til Tuesday, don't hesitate to call me and we will perform emergency surgery.  Also, we might as well remove your gallbladder since it could be a culprit in the future and we might as well get that out of the way to avoid another future surgery".  Apprarently I was reading that gallstones are very common after WLS so I guess it wouldn't hurt to get that removed. 

This news is just so upseting because I do have co-pays and 20% out of pocket expenses I will have to pay that my insurance doesn't cover.  The last hernia surgery i had my surgeon said he was positive and almost guarenteed I shouldn't have another hernia after the way he had repaired it. 

For now all I can do is sip, sip, sip water and hopefully avoid getting dehydrated and make it thorugh until Wednesday. 

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