CRguy wrote:Welcome to the forum.
With regards to any medical advice :
you need to contact your own doctor and seek help for your pain, from the medical experts who know your situation best.
CRguy
MissMolly wrote:CRguy wrote:Welcome to the forum.
With regards to any medical advice :
you need to contact your own doctor and seek help for your pain, from the medical experts who know your situation best.
CRguy
I agree with CR guy to check-in with your surgeon, as he/she knows the particulars of your internal anatomy and surgical procedure.
I have had several intestinal surgeries. Small bowel resections can have you experiencing post-operative sensations that differ from a resection of the large intestine.
The small intestine functionally is in constant motion 24-7 under a moistened apron of overlying fat called the omentum. The small intestine squiggles and squirmes, much as a snake slithers and glides. The large intestine, by comparison, moves in intermittent paristaltic waves. Paristaltic waves occur at intervals during the day, with muscular contraction that starts at the beginning of the large intestine and ripples along its length, much as a line of dominoes falls in succession. Between paristalsis, the large intestine is acquiescent and at rest.
It is the constant wiggling of the small intestine that can lend to a heightened awareness of internal sensations and nerve pain during recovery.
Adhesions/scar tissue can form bands that tether the small intestine to adjacent tissue or to the abdominal wall. Movement of the body, say rotating the torso when reaching for an object on an upper shelf, then places tension on the adhesions/scar tissue which can be registered as a sharp flinching pain or an internal feeling of tissue resistance/tugging.
An additional source of pain can be sensory nerve endings that become embedded in tissue as a normal process of healing tissue. Surgical incisions, by their very nature, slice through/cut small sensory neve fibers that traverse through the skin and underlying connective tissue and muscle. Small nerve fiber regeneration and regrowth in the weeks/months after surgery will present with their own communication that they are awakening. It is often a high pitched, fleeting pain. It tends to be intermittent (not constant).
I share these pain types to let you know that intermittent pain is not uncommon during recovery for intestinal reactions. Healing is a process of several months, 4-6 months. It is normal to become more aware of what your body is “saying” and communicating to you after surgery. I am a firm believer that if we carefully listen to our body our body is able to tell us what it needs and tell us about its state of being.
It is always wise to communicate with your surgeon if you have new or concerning symptoms. Never consider that you are bothering your physician when asking a question or calling with a concern.
Hoping your pain is explained by normal effects of healing,
Karen
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