DDD
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First and foremost this is not a NEED so don't inconvenience yourself. I just would like to find where I can read about others who either are experiencing or have experienced what I am living with since my surgery. I AM doing aok. Yesterday I saw my primary physician whom I like to death, lol, and his exam and comments are the same as the surgeon and the oncologist. Actually I'm happy because he agreed to be in charge of my health and agreed with my decision to live with-o chemo. Yeah. Believe me ALOT of people think it is "unAmerican" to avoid chemo, lol.
Anyway I don't need sympathy or support or prayers now. What I'm trying to find is a site or an expert that explains why my abdomen hurts...or, heck, another person experiencing the same symptom. All the MD's agree "everything feels fine". The Surgeon told me "in quite a few cases patients begin to get pain six or eight weeks after surgery" and "none of the experts know why...it just happens". My primary said "yeah...that's not uncommon and I think when you have surgery there is a protective layer that used to be there that is removed and so your pain threshold is lower". HUH?
Some times most of my belly feels sore. Some days (like today) I feel like an invisible knife is being stuck in my abdomen (usually due left of my belly button) on occasion and almost ALWAYS if I have to sneeze! Yikes. I "think" it would be a comfort to read about other adults who have experienced this
sensation, which by the way is intermitent not consistent. I have three cancer boards I monitor but I can't find one post about it. It's bugging me. I'm used to daily support from our CD family and just figured there would be tons and tons of cancer support info...not this problem so far.
SO if you are going nuts with your life and you love the net and you have nothing else to do..feel free to locate somebody with post op pains that started weeks after surgery. My husband tells me when he had bladder cancer ten years ago that he had pain for ten years. WTH???? Don't you just love the way couples communicate? Geez, Louise. DDD
Anyway I don't need sympathy or support or prayers now. What I'm trying to find is a site or an expert that explains why my abdomen hurts...or, heck, another person experiencing the same symptom. All the MD's agree "everything feels fine". The Surgeon told me "in quite a few cases patients begin to get pain six or eight weeks after surgery" and "none of the experts know why...it just happens". My primary said "yeah...that's not uncommon and I think when you have surgery there is a protective layer that used to be there that is removed and so your pain threshold is lower". HUH?
Some times most of my belly feels sore. Some days (like today) I feel like an invisible knife is being stuck in my abdomen (usually due left of my belly button) on occasion and almost ALWAYS if I have to sneeze! Yikes. I "think" it would be a comfort to read about other adults who have experienced this
sensation, which by the way is intermitent not consistent. I have three cancer boards I monitor but I can't find one post about it. It's bugging me. I'm used to daily support from our CD family and just figured there would be tons and tons of cancer support info...not this problem so far.
SO if you are going nuts with your life and you love the net and you have nothing else to do..feel free to locate somebody with post op pains that started weeks after surgery. My husband tells me when he had bladder cancer ten years ago that he had pain for ten years. WTH???? Don't you just love the way couples communicate? Geez, Louise. DDD