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Severe pain continues after gall bladder removal !
After dealing with episodes of severe abdominal pain for years, finally had my gallbladder removed. expecting to have condition resolved, but I continue to have severe, pain, 6 months after surgery. Doctors do not have any answers. My father and my grandmother had this pain and were pain free after removal of their gall bladder. I have a young family and full time job and am very active, but when I get these attacks of pain I am basically paralized. I cannot move. Nothing helps !
I just have to wait it out. Sometimes for hours. Has anyone found an answer to this situation.
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don't ignore pain, especially severe pain.
Pain is caused by something.
It is important to ascertain what that cause is. Absolutely important!!!!
When the cause of pain is unknown and continuing...
in general, some meditation and breathing exercises may help. By help? Oh, I mean, with serious pain? Looking at maybe 5% or 10% pain reduction. But, also, generally, might also help with a better ability to endure pain.
I have dealt with high levels of pain and am dealing with high levels of pain. One thing I have done...and I have not had this confirmed by anyone...is, oh...in winter, sometimes I will go out with lighter coats. Or if I have to endure some pain hammering away at some woodwork, I will hammer a bit longer. It is my amateurish attempt to get my body ready to endure higher levels of pain.
I know that boxers do this in training. Muhammad Ali had his sparing partners, work his abdomen hard so that he was more accustomed to handling pain levels.
I don't know any professional confirmation of this technique. But from my own experience, it has helped some.
yes, exactly. Persist until you find a specific cause.
because if it is pain, it's not myth, something physical is causing the problem.
I had stage 4 lung, liver, and bone cancer. Opioids such as Vicodin, codeine was prescribed for pain, but they caused Gall Bladder pain even though the GB was removed.
Neil
Look up sphincter of Oddi. Hard to diagnose but not uncommon after gall bladder removal. Super painful. Sphincteotomy is treatment
Thank you, Thank you.
I will discuss this with my PCP. The Bone cancer has left me with a lot of pain, and I cannot find a solution to alleviate the pain. There is metastatic cancer in 5 places in the spine and it would be nice to have a pain free day.
I hope you can find some relief ! I am so sorry that you are in pain. Is it possible that acupuncture might help.
Bless you
Tell me more about the opioids causing pain. I have the same problem with only certain ones.
Gall Bladder was removed over 10 years ago and still having problems with opioids.
Neil
I have gotten the abdominal spasms since a couple of days after having my gall bladder out, which was now about 20 years ago. They are very severe!!! I do have to say that they have been more infrequent over the years. When it "hits," I do a twisting motion with my whole upper body to the right that really seems to help and breaks the spasm. This is from many years of experimenting when it happens. It may take a couple of minutes, but it really does work for me. I really do understand how severe and debilitating these are at the time. My doctor at the time didn't even seem to know what in the heck sphincter of Oddi was. Just from doing my research, I have determined on my own that that's what it is. I have never taken any meds for this, but I certainly don't begrudge any for taking them. It's so painful that we'll do anything. I only found my way of dealing with it was by trial and error at the time of the attack. I was writhing in pain, so I do understand exactly what anyone is going through.
Thank you for your help. Good luck to you and all who are experiencing pain !