It’s me again with what seems like another complication for me!
I had gall bladder out in 2016 and it was completely scarred over and full of gallstones. They said I was lucky that it didn’t become gangrenous. But I had twinges of pain ever since then and after awhile I had that awful diarrhea ever since except the time I was pregnant 2017-2018 and also after the DS. My GI doctor prescribed Welchol. But now I am always so prone to constipation. Then a couple months after having the baby I had a CT scan because I was having some tearing pain in my abdomen and thought it was a hernia or something with my csection. The CT showed non alcoholic fatty liver disease but my liver enzymes were normal. I followed up with my GI doctor because there’s pain occasionally like pinching and she said that the liver can be encapsulated and when you eat something fatty it can contract but she has me follow up in six months and I do.
2019 I had the DS and THEN my liver enzymes were elevated and kept raising even past one year. But hey this was supposed to be resolving!! Why is it increasing? It’s been a year and a half and I STILL have elevated liver enzymes! I went back to my GI doctor this fall and she does blood work and I have an ultrasound and it’s normal but I still have pain so she referred me to a hepatologist and my appointment is Thursday. But tonight I had a terrible gall bladder attack and it hurt, took my breath away and I had pain under my right collarbone. It was that very familiar feeling of being hooked up to a Medieval torture device called the intestinal crank. Only I need to repeat that I don’t have my gall bladder.
I took a 1/4 of a Norco and so far it is helping. I still feel that twisting around but it’s tolerable. I don’t know if this is DS related, a bowel obstruction, or pancreatitis or Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction but I guess narcotics make it worse? I haven’t taken a full one in about a couple weeks and I took a quarter on Thursday with a muscle relaxant because my body was hurting badly from the errands I did. It didn’t seem to have a reaction. There isn’t a pattern to what causes this pain or twisting. Sometimes it’s bacon and tonight it was crispy Parmesan with chicken salad. But then some days those things don’t cause any pain.
So now that you have all these details and thank you for making it this far. At which point is this an emergency where I would want to risk going to an ER? The hospitals are full in DFW. I want to tough it out until my appointment but I know nothing will be resolved that day and I will only need more tests and scans. Is this something that I should contact Dr. Ayoola about and go to the hospital where he has privileges or just my much closer and bigger hospital near me? I also have my 18 months DS post op appointment on Monday. I probably will send a message but I know they will say what they always say which is if I am in a lot of pain I should go to the ER. But I don’t want to risk getting Covid!
Thanks!
I had gall bladder out in 2016 and it was completely scarred over and full of gallstones. They said I was lucky that it didn’t become gangrenous. But I had twinges of pain ever since then and after awhile I had that awful diarrhea ever since except the time I was pregnant 2017-2018 and also after the DS. My GI doctor prescribed Welchol. But now I am always so prone to constipation. Then a couple months after having the baby I had a CT scan because I was having some tearing pain in my abdomen and thought it was a hernia or something with my csection. The CT showed non alcoholic fatty liver disease but my liver enzymes were normal. I followed up with my GI doctor because there’s pain occasionally like pinching and she said that the liver can be encapsulated and when you eat something fatty it can contract but she has me follow up in six months and I do.
2019 I had the DS and THEN my liver enzymes were elevated and kept raising even past one year. But hey this was supposed to be resolving!! Why is it increasing? It’s been a year and a half and I STILL have elevated liver enzymes! I went back to my GI doctor this fall and she does blood work and I have an ultrasound and it’s normal but I still have pain so she referred me to a hepatologist and my appointment is Thursday. But tonight I had a terrible gall bladder attack and it hurt, took my breath away and I had pain under my right collarbone. It was that very familiar feeling of being hooked up to a Medieval torture device called the intestinal crank. Only I need to repeat that I don’t have my gall bladder.
I took a 1/4 of a Norco and so far it is helping. I still feel that twisting around but it’s tolerable. I don’t know if this is DS related, a bowel obstruction, or pancreatitis or Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction but I guess narcotics make it worse? I haven’t taken a full one in about a couple weeks and I took a quarter on Thursday with a muscle relaxant because my body was hurting badly from the errands I did. It didn’t seem to have a reaction. There isn’t a pattern to what causes this pain or twisting. Sometimes it’s bacon and tonight it was crispy Parmesan with chicken salad. But then some days those things don’t cause any pain.
So now that you have all these details and thank you for making it this far. At which point is this an emergency where I would want to risk going to an ER? The hospitals are full in DFW. I want to tough it out until my appointment but I know nothing will be resolved that day and I will only need more tests and scans. Is this something that I should contact Dr. Ayoola about and go to the hospital where he has privileges or just my much closer and bigger hospital near me? I also have my 18 months DS post op appointment on Monday. I probably will send a message but I know they will say what they always say which is if I am in a lot of pain I should go to the ER. But I don’t want to risk getting Covid!
Thanks!
Hope you are feeling more comfortable now and that the underlying issue is resolved quickly.
