salski
New Member
Hello all - its been a long long while since I posted here so a little amout me:
I am Sally. I am 3 years post op and in that time I have had a baby who is now 16 months old. I developed late stage dumping syndrome during my pregnancy which was so severe my hospital are writing a report on my case and publishing it in a medical paper to help anyone else as there was no case as severe as mine apparently (?!)
Once my baby (Elsie) was born about 6 months after I started with a pain every few months that floored me. It was a strange pain that hospitalised me each time and moved all over my torso. It last about 5 minutes each time and lasted about 6 hours. It was like contractions during labour and came at regular intervals. I have had every test under the sun and also have investatagive surgery to see if it was a twisted bowel - which it was not.
I could tell when the pain was coming on and usually took a codein, tramadol or ibuprofen (which my surgeon prescribed) but nothing worked. Usually I was administered morphine when in the ambulance or hospital which again didnt work. The only thing that seemed to help was gas and air.
I had a headache on holiday and took a co-codamol and low and behold 10 minutes later I was writhing around on the floor with the hotel staff wanting to ring an ambulance. I did not want to go to a Spanish hospital and have to give my full medical history but I did work out that this pain was due to pain killers. I must have been exasperating my pain in the past by taking pain killers to get rid of the pain?! I had an inkling at this previously but was assured by doctors that this would definitely not be the case....seems I was right though.
I wondered if anyone else has heard or suffers with this?
Sally
I am Sally. I am 3 years post op and in that time I have had a baby who is now 16 months old. I developed late stage dumping syndrome during my pregnancy which was so severe my hospital are writing a report on my case and publishing it in a medical paper to help anyone else as there was no case as severe as mine apparently (?!)
Once my baby (Elsie) was born about 6 months after I started with a pain every few months that floored me. It was a strange pain that hospitalised me each time and moved all over my torso. It last about 5 minutes each time and lasted about 6 hours. It was like contractions during labour and came at regular intervals. I have had every test under the sun and also have investatagive surgery to see if it was a twisted bowel - which it was not.
I could tell when the pain was coming on and usually took a codein, tramadol or ibuprofen (which my surgeon prescribed) but nothing worked. Usually I was administered morphine when in the ambulance or hospital which again didnt work. The only thing that seemed to help was gas and air.
I had a headache on holiday and took a co-codamol and low and behold 10 minutes later I was writhing around on the floor with the hotel staff wanting to ring an ambulance. I did not want to go to a Spanish hospital and have to give my full medical history but I did work out that this pain was due to pain killers. I must have been exasperating my pain in the past by taking pain killers to get rid of the pain?! I had an inkling at this previously but was assured by doctors that this would definitely not be the case....seems I was right though.
I wondered if anyone else has heard or suffers with this?
Sally
