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Has anyone been diagnosed with Abdominal Wall Pain
Starting on May 1, 2017, I began having abdominal pain that wraps around to my left back. The first time it happened, I went to the emergency room because I thought I might have an apendicitis. The hospital did a CT scan of my abdomen, everything looked okay. I went to the emergency room several times over the summer with excruciating abdominal and back pain. I had a hida scan done, a colonoscopy and an endoscopy and CT and ultrasound scans of my abdomen. Everything looked normal. In September of this year, a doctor at Mayo felt the area on my abdomen and did a Carnett's test. He suggested it could be abdominal wall pain. I have had two steroid injections and I am still having pain in the same area. Has anyone out there had this type of diagnosis and still having pain?
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I suffered horribly from ACNES and finally found an amazing surgeon at St Joseph's Medical Center in Phoenix who performed Robotic Laparoscopic surgery severing my T8, T9 and T10 abdominal nerves. Actual surgery time was 29 minutes and I left the hospital a few hours later TOTALLY pain free.
I believe it is Abdominal (anterior)
Have you been tested for ACNES? (the carnett test) If you are suffering from ACNES it is curable through surgery though very difficult to find a surgeon who will perform it. My doctor, through Robotic Laparoscopic surgery cut my T8, T9 and T10 nerves in my abdomen and I walked out of the St Joe's pain free after terrible year of suffering. Jeff in Gilbert, AZ
Did you have surgery to cut the nerves causing the pain?
I’m in the throes of dealing with what you describe, onset recently pursuant to IBS. I’m curious if you have neuropathy or other neurological related affliction?
I do not know what IBS is but my issue was only ACNES which I was cured of once T8, T9 and T10 were cut via Robotic Laparoscopic surgery.
@jgroudan, I didn’t know about IBS until it hit about a month ago. Here’s the antiseptic definition:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects the large intestine. Signs and symptoms include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation, or both. IBS is a chronic condition that you'll need to manage long term.
Only a small number of people with IBS have severe signs and symptoms. Some people can control their symptoms by managing diet, lifestyle and stress. More-severe symptoms can be treated with medication and counseling.
For me, it feels like there’s a clamp tightened around the inside of my abdomen, along with an ongoing flow of adrenaline, like I just got a huge tax bill. On top of that I can’t poop without several EXlax pills every few days. It’s awfully uncomfortable and consuming with anxiety and insomnia. Doc says it most commonly follows long term high stress, which is true for me. I’m working on it, albeit slow.
I’m not checked out on ACNES but the solution sounds severe. I’m curious how it felt and hit you had options to treat it? Fortunate that they adjusted the discs without cutting wide open. ‘Hope it went well and you’re better.
No, the surgery to sever 3 abdominal nerves was not sever at all. It took the surgeon 30 minutes and I went home ACNES pain free, aside from soreness from the cutting, at 4pm that afternoon.
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1 ReactionIt is abdominal - not anterior.
I suffered terribly with ACNES for about a year. After getting diagnosed via the Carnett test and getting 4 trigger point injections I fortunately found Dr Gillespie at St Joe’s in Phoenix. He performed robotic laparoscopic surgery on T8,9 and 10. Totally cured 😀