Hello! You are not alone. I so feel your pain! Everything and more is still happening to me... 5 years later. Unfortunately I have to just suffer now. (I have no health insurance after I was forced to quit my 36 year long job due to recovery issues.) My local hospital gave me 6 months of financial aid recently because now something bulges out under my front ribs when I sneeze, cough hard or bend over too long. It hurts more than labor and I have to immediately be flat on my back pushing it back in. Then very sore for a day or two there. Am afraid it is gonna bulge out and pinch and stay out. Two Drs said I had a hernia & sent me to a surgeon who pretty much told me he didnt feel a hernia and blamed it on sutures. SUTURES?? I ended up crying... begging him to help me. He reluctantly ordered a couple of tests which showed nothing. Then covid hit and appointments were cancelled. A month after the last test I had to call and request an appointment in person. After discussing more of my past surgeries, he flat out told me nothing can be done and maybe I should see a nutritionist and get a colonoscopy. He blamed everything on adhesions and that no surgeon would ever go in there. The cure is the cause.
Throughout the past 15 years worth of surgeries I have no gall bladder. Had a 5 lb messenteric abdominal cyst removed through open surgery. Then developed incisional hernias the whole length of the 8" incision. The solution was to implant mesh. (All these years later I learn its the bad mesh, made with hulahoop materials, which now a huge lawsuit ensues nationwide.) Anyways... that led to a hiatal hernia, then Nissen fundoplication, which broke down in 2 years, also have dysphagia. Then a takedown of the Nissen into a toupet fundoplication. Both surgeries included 2 hours of cutting through adhesions to get to stomach. So... he figures that after 5 years I am loaded with adhesions and he wont do it.
Now what? I am starving slowly. My starting weight was 210. I now weigh 104. I can lose 3 pounds just gardening in the hot sun. I have no muscles, no fat, no energy. Food is the enemy. It hates me. Everything gives me a stomach ache. You never know when it will attack from within... that one more bite... and that dumping... AAauuugggaahhh!
I hate this. My next try at feeling better will be that maybe I can go to Mayo. But without health insurance or a job... fat chance I will get to go. Please keep me in the loop... on the chance that you find help and relief. I wish you the best. We deserve better. I was PROMISED this would fix me. All trust is gone... especially when he left his practice 4 months later and they wouldnt tell me why. Quack? I am only 59 and have so much more to give... I just need to stop dwindling away. Thank you for reading my ramblings.