Hello all. I’ve been suffering from ACNES for up to 10 years now.
I figured out what it was on my own a few years ago but I couldn’t find a surgeon near me in Canada with any experience to deal with it. I finally found a plastic surgeon who was willing to give it a try, even though she had no experience. The surgery was both a success and a failure. It was successful in the sense that it removed my original pain that was underneath my top row of abdominal muscles. It was unsuccessful in the sense that there was collateral damage and now I have pain on my abdominal wall right underneath where the six inch incision line was. This pain is 90% as similar and as bad as my original ACNES pain was, it’s just in a different spot now. I’m guessing that either a nerve was cut unintentionally or the scar tissue from the surgery has entrapped an otherwise healthy nerve.

Do you think that this still qualifies as ACNES?
Would Dr Gillespie be able to help me?