I’ll be leaving in a few hours for an endoscopy, which has been ordered to check for a small bowel obstruction (partial, in this case). My bariatric surgeon suspects that the gastric bypass surgery (11/2009) and gallbladder removal surgery (10/2010) combined with losing 150 lbs in just a year and a half may have caused minor scarring or adhesions somewhere on my small intestine. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? This is my second endoscopy (I had one last year to rule out the possible of a stricture), so I know what to expect, so I’m not really nervous. Looking forward to getting on with it, however, because I hate the anxiety of waiting around to be put out. And whatever it is they use, it doesn’t put you out like that, like general anesthesia does. It’s a quick lulling drop-off into sleep, but there’s enough time for your brain to register, “Oh hey, I’m going to sleep now”. I prefer the knockout type of anesthesia, personally. 1
I’m torn between hoping they find something to explain the horrid bouts of abdominal pain and cramping, wave-like pain I have been experiencing off and on (usually within 15-30 minutes of eating) since a few weeks after my last surgery (October), and worrying that they’re not going to find anything and think I’m just crazy. But logically, given my symptoms (I’m having some, uh, other issues in addition to the pain…), I’m fairly certain they will find something. So scope away!
- When I went in for my gastric bypass surgery and then my gallbladder removal surgery, I begged them to put me out of my anxiety-induced misery. They quickly obliged, heh. ↩
Oh yuck. I don’t envy you. Hopefully they find out what the issue is.
Hey, better upper than lower! If it was lower I’d be all set up for a colonoscopy. FUN, heh.
Good luck doll. I had an endoscopy in August to check on why I was having such serious bouts of nausea. Came back with a diagnosis of H.Pylori. But I guess a lot of times they just give valium and some other anti anxiety drugs, but because of my past (multiple surgeries requiring the use of pain killers that makes a drug like valium impossible to knock me out) they had to knock me out with propofol and ketamine.. holy crap ketamine was like an acid trip (well assuming thats what acid would be like). Let us know how it goes!
Best of luck Jenn!
Good luck, I hope it all goes well.
I have had a pain in my left side that has come and gone for the last 8 years. It’s pretty common with post ops. It has no pattern and no cause that can be easily diagnosed. If you google it, you’ll find other people complaining about the same thing. I’m in pain as I write this.
Good luck!
Good luck!
If they don’t find anything, you could ask for test to find out it you have food allergies like gluten of lactose intolerance. It could as well be something along those lines.