Waves of Pouch Pain

[TxDumplin 69]

My pouch is hurting ...Yesterday, last night and today! I feel it contracting and moving and i get waves of pain. Anybody else experience this? I've been taking gas x strips and it's not helping.

[kristy3k 1,133]

Err on the side of caution and call your surgeon!!!!

[DLCoggin 1,788]

Yup, I agree with Kristy - make an appointment with your surgeon. Sounds like it could be a stricture (relatively easily treated) or it could be something minor that can be treated with medication. Either way, your doctor is the one to make that call. There is no upside to suffering needlessly.

[TxDumplin 69]

Thanks y'all...I drank a hot cup of mocha and it feels a little better. If it bothers me tonight i will call surgeon tomorrow morning.

[RNYCHAMP 2]

Hey guys! I'm 5 years post op this month. With 365lbs gone, life is good! However i too am now experiencing the same thing. Pain to the point of passing out. I break out in a cold sweat, and i can feel these attacks coming on. Its gradual and then it climaxs into the cold sweat, nautious mess that i become for about 10 to 15 mins. It then gradually subsides.....gallbladder has been removed , endoscopy performed and other than atage 2 esophagitis, everything is great. Protonix helps,but hasnt cured. Any suggestions??

[RNYCHAMP 2]

BTW the pain seems to be coming from under the very bottom point of my xiphoid process(sternum). Dunno if its my pouch or what. Started bout a year ago.

[green*eyed*girl 170]

Hey guys! I'm 5 years post op this month. With 365lbs gone, life is good! However i too am now experiencing the same thing. Pain to the point of passing out. I break out in a cold sweat, and i can feel these attacks coming on. Its gradual and then it climaxs into the cold sweat, nautious mess that i become for about 10 to 15 mins. It then gradually subsides.....gallbladder has been removed , endoscopy performed and other than atage 2 esophagitis, everything is great. Protonix helps,but hasnt cured. Any suggestions??

I am only 3 weeks out so I might not be much help, but I have been told to skip a day every week with my PPI (for you Protonix I take a different PPI), as I need stomach acid for better digestion. So yesterday was my first trial to skip my PPI and Oh Lord was I in pain by this morning??? I felt the same pain you described. So I think your pain has a connection with the Protonix. Ask your doctor if you might should up your daily dose or maybe change you for a different PPI. I am alleregic to pantoprazole such as Protonix, so I take rabeprazole based PPI and it seems to work. Again, just an idea, but do not panic just talk to your surgeon.

[DLCoggin 1,788]

My surgeon told me in a regular follow-up appointment that a problem can sometimes develop with the small intestine. Apparently it can "kink" or develop a loop. She told me straight out that the pain can be, in some cases, very intense. She also said that it absolutely can be corrected but it does require surgery. I don't know if they can diagnose it with an endoscopy or not. You mentioned that you've been having the pain for about a year - have you discussed it with your surgeon? Severe pain of any kind, much less to the point of losing consciousness, should be regarded as serious. You may want to consider working closely and assertively with your medical team until you have a diagnosis and a plan for treatment.

Edited May 10, 2014 by DLCoggin

[TxDumplin 69]

I know it's been almost a year since i posted this question...LOL, thought i'd come back and let you all know that it was an ulcer. It would only feel better if i put something in my pouch to give the acid something to work on. I take an acid reducer everyday now and all is good

[green*eyed*girl 170]

I know it's been almost a year since i posted this question...LOL, thought i'd come back and let you all know that it was an ulcer. It would only feel better if i put something in my pouch to give the acid something to work on. I take an acid reducer everyday now and all is good

Did you not have to take acid reducer after your surgery? I have to take a PPI daily til the end of my life.. I am sorry you had to go through this, I am sure by now you feel brand new

[TxDumplin 69]

I was not taking a PPI after my rny...dr. never said that i should. He asked it i was taking any pain killers besides tylenol and i wasn't. He knew right off what it was by the way i described the pain. Sometimes i go a few days and not take it...and i can feel that ulcer pain again. I suppose i will have to take it the rest of my life also.