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Digestive Health | Last Active: Dec 13, 2025 | Replies (169)
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@lilbear
I appreciate you sharing your specific symptoms. By sharing this, others who may have had a similar experience after surgery may offer some support and encouragement.
From your post, I don't see any pattern to the pain. For example, is it worse after meals, early or late in the day, etc.?
It does take time to recover from surgery. My first surgery was at age 53, and my second surgery was at age 55; there was a more prolonged recovery as I aged. Lots of considerations post-surgery.
Please continue to post about your progress. We are here to listen and support you.
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@hopeful33250 It will be six weeks Wednesday. I am 70 years old but have had several abdominal surgeries (3x different ovarian cysts)when I was younger. I also had my gallbladder and appendix removed also. When I had this surgery I had an abscess on my bladder which had to be repaired! I’m not sure if that’s what’s causing my symptoms but I will ask the surgeon next week at my last post op appointment. He feels my symptoms are not part of the surgery. I am worse in the morning and wake up several times at night with abdominal pain mainly on the left side. I thought it would be getting better each day but it’s not. My insurance sent a Dr to my house yesterday that said she felt with the bladder abscess I was going to take a lot longer to heal? She said the nerves were probably causing a lot of my symptoms. The bowels are so irregular but I was expecting that. I’m trying to be patient but it’s hard.