30 years of abdominal pain is hopefully over..

For the near last 30 years of my life I've had very painful abdomen. I've asked the doctors to check it out many times but nothing was never found. Over the years I've learn to live with the pain every day of my life. In the last six months the pain became a bit worse and had a few very hard pain crysis.

Again two weeks ago I had a very hard pain, the worst ever. So hard I had to go to the emergency to have it checked on the spot. In my small hometown we now have a very good surgeon who is almost working 24/7. He was at the emergency when I arrived. As soon as he checked me out he told me my instestins were perforated and I needed a surgery right way.

He found I had part of my intestins covered with diverticulus and one of them had busted. He cleaned up the mess and let it calm down with medication for three days. The third day I was back to surgery to fix the problem, they removed about a foot of intestins where all the diverticulus where.

He did a temporary colostomy to let my system recover for about six month. I received my release from the hospital today after 12 days.
Feel really good to be at home now with very little pain.

The surgeon told me I will never have that problem again. It's hard to believe after all those years of pain. I really hope he's right.

 

Thanks Rick! But been at home too long now and too much time on Ebay ended up with another stupidity from myself

Go to the 365/400 section

 

I think genetic has something to do with all that. My father suffered the same thing at the same age. And he told me his dad probably died of that in 1948 when he was also around the same age.

My dad had a second surgery for the same problem about 5 years later. The surgeon back then told him it was extremely rare to need a second surgery for that same problem.

Presently my recovery seem to be very good.

 

Yes I've had colonoscopy twice in the last few years. They even removed a polyp within the last year. I've had x-rays and doplers too over the years. The surgeon said the part that was damaged was right behind and agains the bladder. Maybe that is why it was hard to find, I don't know.
Was my pain always because of this? I don't know but it's a relief to know they found something wrong that they fixed.

 

Hey thanks Jay, it's now half behind me I still have the ostomy for some more months and another surgery to reconnect all that.
Anyway if I'm ever in need of a good medical plumber I know a good one

BTW have you read I just bought another 4 seater Ferrari convertible? A 400i Straman. Presently thinking about the Euro mondipalooza.

 

Some updates. On september 30 I was back in surgery to close the colostomy and reconnect the system. They scheduled 2.5 hours to do it. What a surprise when I woke up and learned that it took 7 hours and I still had a stomy but on the other side, an ileostomy this time. To make a short story they have had problems and there was a air leak when they tested it and after fixing it they didn't want to take any chances and made the other stomy to make sure the healing would be perfect before putting it back to work.

A good decision but a hard news for me to swallow.

This next thursday I'll be back on the table for the final. Closing it for good HOPEFULLY!

 

Back from my surgery today and everything went fine. Now need to recover and I should be OK.

 

Thanks for your good words guys I appreciate. It look good for now.