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So on Labor day I had a dull but constant pain in my right side. I just figured it was gas or something so I let it go. Tuesday I went back to work with the same pain and I just put a heating pad on it. Needless to say I devolped nausea and went to a quick care place and was told I could have appendicitis and to go to the er. So to cut it short 8 hours later in the er I found out I had a hernia near my belly button. Also they were concerned that I had a strangulation with my bowel and the rushed me to surgery. :scared2:I had surgery Wed. morning and left the hospital on Friday. I am still in alot of pain I can't go back to work until I see the doc on Wed.

Talk about having to take it slow now. Anyways if this is partly what is feels like to have a Tummy Tuck I am not sure I want one. He pulled my abdominal wall so tight he hurts to stand.

Has anyone else experience this?

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I sometimes have a pain on my right side. Where about was yours? Did you get relief when you "passed gas"? I seem to get it every time I eat. What exactly did they have to do to in surgery? I also have a belly button hernia but I have had it a long time.

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Bless your heart I am so sorry that happened to you but yee haw you are alright! Take it slow and heal up! Good-luck to you!

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Wow - that sounds scary! I'm glad you're generally okay and you got it dealt with before anything more serious resulted.

I hope you're feeling better soon!

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I sometimes have a pain on my right side. Where about was yours? Did you get relief when you "passed gas"? I seem to get it every time I eat. What exactly did they have to do to in surgery? I also have a belly button hernia but I have had it a long time.

BellaPerdente,

Because I had bowel sticking through they were afraid of strangulation so they did surgery right away. They cut my stomach muscles and pushes everything back in and then covered it with mesh and stitched my muscles tightly back together. As far as the pain it was to the right of my belly button more on the right side.

Bless your heart I am so sorry that happened to you but yee haw you are alright! Take it slow and heal up! Good-luck to you!

Laurinda,

Thank you so much I fell much better than I did

Wow - that sounds scary! I'm glad you're generally okay and you got it dealt with before anything more serious resulted.

I hope you're feeling better soon!

thesuse2000,

I am glad they found it sooner than later but it was a real shock

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I had my surgery on the 3rd and then on the 6th I was having really bad pain on my lower right side. I was later taken to the hospital and after a lot of tests they found that I have a hemoraging ovarian cyst that's a little larger than my uterus...if it wasn't hard enough healing from the lapband surgery, but now I have to deal w/ the pain froms this....grrrr.

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I had my surgery on the 3rd and then on the 6th I was having really bad pain on my lower right side. I was later taken to the hospital and after a lot of tests they found that I have a hemoraging ovarian cyst that's a little larger than my uterus...if it wasn't hard enough healing from the lapband surgery, but now I have to deal w/ the pain froms this....grrrr.

I can understand what you mean having the lapband is one thing to get over but then you have to deal with something else.

I hope you fell better soon.

I finally get to go back to work tommorrow. I can't do anything except walking at the moment because he does not want me to stretch anything. It will be a couple of months till I can do anything else.

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