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@louiel

Hi, I’m new to this site but have been reading through all the comments over the past few weeks. I had a bowel resection 7 weeks ago because of Crohn’s disease. All went well and I was recovering fine until I developed an abscess a few weeks ago which ended up with me being re admitted to the hospital for anti biotics. I came home and again I’ve been fine until about 5 days ago where I have horrendous pain in my lower right abdomen which is were the resection was done. It hurts to even gently touch this area. I had an emergency CT scan done a couple of days ago and the surgeon said that it looks like just inflammation that is causing the pain. Has anyone else had such bad pain from inflammation 2 months after the surgery? I feel like I’m going backwards. Im 34 with 2 young children and I feel so bad that I still don’t have the energy and in to much pain to do anything with them. The surgeon basically said to wait another month before I go back to him but I’m worried something else is wrong. Had a high fever last night that lasted about 12 hours but that has gone now but it’s just the extreme pain. Paracetamol doesn’t do anything for the pain and not sure what else I can take. Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Hello @louiel and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I'm sorry to hear of all of the problems that you are having post-surgery. You must feel very tired as well as in pain.

I have just a few questions if you don't mind sharing more: When your doctor found this inflammation, 2 months after surgery, did he restart you on antibiotics or offer you any other suggestions? You said that you ran a high fever for 12 hours. How high was the fever?

I would highly recommend that you call the doctor's office and leave a message regarding the fever and pain and the fact that the current pain med is not helping. It might also be a good idea to see if you should be taking another antibioltic.

I would really like to hear how you are doing. Will you post an update after your call to the doctor? If the pain and fever come back again remember that you can go to the ER or other walk-in clinic to have an evaluation and blood work done.