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Chronic RLQ Pain + Stuck Feeling (5+ Years)
Hi everyone, hoping for some insight. My brother has been dealing with chronic right lower abdominal pain for five years now, starting after a lifting injury. No surgery prior to that.
The pain is on his lower right side (as he looks down), with a diffuse tightness that radiates upward past his belly button. Worst in the morning, improves somewhat after bowel movements. He describes it as feeling like his intestines are adhered together, or like a mesh of his abdomen is all tight. He also has a palpable cord along his right side that changes when he tenses his muscles.
He's been through multiple gastroenterologists, a diagnostic laparoscopy that found nothing, three nerve blocks that provided minimal relief, and an intestinal rerouting surgery that didn't help. All imaging has come back essentially normal.
The nerve blocks not working makes us think this isn't purely a nerve issue. The stretching his abdominal wall actually gives him some relief. Carnett's test was neutral.
Has anyone experienced something similar — particularly the feeling of internal tightness or something being stuck on the right side? We're currently trying to get a referral, but all the doc has done now as authorized Lyrica for nerve dimming.
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Jordan65 sounds like what's going on with me!
Just plain ridiculous-debilitating pain every minute of every day due to 2 hernia surgeries.
1st was the "fixing" of a right ingrunal hernia in 1995. Then the 2nd surgery in 2014 to remove that piece of polypropylene hernia mesh.
This was a HUGE MISTAKE.
The pain is now to the debilitating level. It's been bad ever since day 1 of the 1st surgery but the "this is my new normal & live with it" & ignoring my problems attitude or way of thinking wasn't the correct way to look at this...
I just wanted to get back to work & never think about this again.
I was obviously young dumb and super naive.
I believed doctors like you wouldn't believe.
Now? Not so much. Ive heard every excuse in the book. Its bullshit & they are just excuses because they don't want to get involved. Or they just plain don't know anything about this HUGE PROBLEM that everyone seems to know something about.
Just please think about this for 1 minute...
They teach doctors how to implant polypropylene hernia mesh but they don't teach them what to do if there's a problem. Which there are NUMEROUS PROBLEMS.
How stupid is this? Lol....
What did they think, there's never going to be problems with a surgery they do to a million(or whatever it is)people a year? ? ? < 🤔🤔🤔
I can not find any help anywhere. I've had enough of this BS & NEED HELP NOW! But that's easier said than done...
PLEASE someone PLEASE help us...