It has been six years since the surgery. The belly is still swollen. It swells more when I drink water, coffee, whatever. It swells after eating and after exercise. I do not fit into my clothes I wore when I had the flat stomach. I did not have any symptoms of cancer before surgery.
I was happy to hear from you. I wonder if the big belly will ever go away.Clothes don`t fit very well around the middle. I guess that is a stupid thing to worry about. I feel good n I~m thankful for that. Did you have any symptoms before you had surgery? I didn~t I had just come out of a resataurant and got deathly sick, I thouight I had food poisining when i went to the hospital they kept me there and I had to get a colonoscopy and found the cancer. Up to that day thought I was in perfect health. You never know what life has in store for you. nannytart<br>
I also had a foot of my colon removed in January due to having stage 1 cecum cancer. I wonder if some of that is scare tissue? I noticed my right ride is tad bigger than my left side. I was always super thin. But since my surgergy I gained about 10 pounds. My stomach is no longer flat .. I think some of that has to do with my body adjusting to the new and improved plumbing systems. It has been 8 months since my surgery, for four of those months I couldn't do a thing. So I gained weight.
Then I started very slowly to exercise again. And I feel a great deal of pulling on my right side. My surgeon says that is scar tissue. Plus I been babying my stomach. Which doesn't help it at all. I noticed I seem to retain extra water too. Exercising seems to help. I started swimming and doing exercises in a pool. That seems to help a great deal. Not sure if you have access to a pool? But try exercising in a pool. It has helped a lot to getting over babying of that area.
Exercise makes it swell. Eating a meal makes it swell. Going to the bathroom, I got a bidet. It helps with constipation and cleaning, but still swelling occurs. My surgery was five years ago. I had the flat stomach and I ended up lumpy, beer belly and swelling. My weight is the same. This is not an acute postsurgery problem.
Only a very small amount of colon was removed. Procedure was called hand assisted scope. Others I have met that go in with a flat stomach come out with nothing but a small scar. Perhaps I s the intestines were not handled gently. Perhaps it is the technique of the particular surgeon. Still, the swelling besides being a body image problem, is also uncomfortable pressing on the bladder. I would just like to know why. I do still exercise anyway. I was a weight lifter and a runner and a compulsive exercise person before. Now after exercising, I get swelling.
No. I asked the doctors, surgeon. Primary doctor, cancer doctor. The plastic surgeon that ttied to fix it. There eyes gloss over. It is years after the surgery, and the beer belly presses on the bladder. They do not have an answer.
My stomach and abdomen starts swelling even after just drinking water. My stomach was flat before surgery. I then had a plastic surgeon try to fix it with a full abdominoplasty. It still swells like a big beer belly and presses on my bladder. When I ask my primary doctor, my surgeon why their eyes glaze over. The plastic surgeon after 7 followups offered a liposuction. What they removed ended up T0. I just want to know why it swells and is uneven when it was absolutely flat before a hand assisted scope for the colon cancer.
Stomach swelling happens for a while after colon surgery. Mine subsided after about 6 months but still inexplicably occurs sometimes. Talk to your doctor about this issue and see if specific foods should be avoided or included, your discomfort level and what activities might help. Walking (a lot), drinking more liquids and avoiding certain foods seemed to help me. Good luck, the new normal seems to be trial and see if it helps.
Yes my belly was swollen it still is I was full of disease tb wring worm 12 inch rope worms black thread worms pinworm round worms fluck worm thrush hook worms etc.and flu like yellow fungus my anus if full of fungal pullips because of it. I'm full of cancer the hpv types in the penis because of it. when measured I have almost 4 feet of cancer in the privates alone but it did not stop there it has traveled every where.
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It has been six years since the surgery. The belly is still swollen. It swells more when I drink water, coffee, whatever. It swells after eating and after exercise. I do not fit into my clothes I wore when I had the flat stomach. I did not have any symptoms of cancer before surgery.
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Exercise makes it swell. Eating a meal makes it swell. Going to the bathroom, I got a bidet. It helps with constipation and cleaning, but still swelling occurs. My surgery was five years ago. I had the flat stomach and I ended up lumpy, beer belly and swelling. My weight is the same. This is not an acute postsurgery problem.
Only a very small amount of colon was removed. Procedure was called hand assisted scope. Others I have met that go in with a flat stomach come out with nothing but a small scar. Perhaps I s the intestines were not handled gently. Perhaps it is the technique of the particular surgeon. Still, the swelling besides being a body image problem, is also uncomfortable pressing on the bladder. I would just like to know why. I do still exercise anyway. I was a weight lifter and a runner and a compulsive exercise person before. Now after exercising, I get swelling.
No. I asked the doctors, surgeon. Primary doctor, cancer doctor. The plastic surgeon that ttied to fix it. There eyes gloss over. It is years after the surgery, and the beer belly presses on the bladder. They do not have an answer.
My stomach and abdomen starts swelling even after just drinking water. My stomach was flat before surgery. I then had a plastic surgeon try to fix it with a full abdominoplasty. It still swells like a big beer belly and presses on my bladder. When I ask my primary doctor, my surgeon why their eyes glaze over. The plastic surgeon after 7 followups offered a liposuction. What they removed ended up T0. I just want to know why it swells and is uneven when it was absolutely flat before a hand assisted scope for the colon cancer.
Stomach swelling happens for a while after colon surgery. Mine subsided after about 6 months but still inexplicably occurs sometimes. Talk to your doctor about this issue and see if specific foods should be avoided or included, your discomfort level and what activities might help. Walking (a lot), drinking more liquids and avoiding certain foods seemed to help me. Good luck, the new normal seems to be trial and see if it helps.
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Did you ever find a solution or reason for your beer belly.
I’m still searching!
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Yes my belly was swollen it still is I was full of disease tb wring worm 12 inch rope worms black thread worms pinworm round worms fluck worm thrush hook worms etc.and flu like yellow fungus my anus if full of fungal pullips because of it. I'm full of cancer the hpv types in the penis because of it. when measured I have almost 4 feet of cancer in the privates alone but it did not stop there it has traveled every where.