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Re: ally bad shoulder, chest pain... Also bladder pain after lap yesterday!!!???
From: Sumarah (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Feb 1 21:23:47 2006
Kristina,
I also had excruciating pain in my rib cage, shoulders after Lap in late
Dec. Hot water bottles & heat packs helped to reveive the pain for me
together with pain killers.
Its the Co2 gas that was left inside you from the lap, although
unpleasent and painful it will pass with rest. The more you lie down
the faster it will pass.
Hope the surgery went well, best wishes Sami
At Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Jennifer wrote:
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>Kristina...
>I don't recall having frequent urination (not too extreme at least)
>after my lap. But, by far, my worst symptom was the shoulder/chest
>pain. It sounds a lot like what you're going through. It got worse
>when I would lay down -- it was even worse if I laid down for an entire
>night and woke up in the morning. Thing is, if I laid on my belly and
>rolled just a little on my shoulder, I literally felt the gas bubbles
>moving around in me. Sounds weird, but it was a relief to feel like
>they were leaving. Finally after dealing with it for like 4 days i
>called the doc (didn't want to wait the weekend out) and his nurse told
>me to take gas x, like you would for any other kind of gas. Not sure if
>that's what helped me or if it was just time. But I recommend you send
>someone to the store to get you some gas-x. Other than that, just
>relax, take, not only the vicodin for pain, but an anti-inflammatory if
>you can, I didn't realize it, but it actually helps the healing and will
>likely leave less scar tissue behind (seems obvious, I never thought of
>it). Good luck to you and remember, this shoulder pain will soon go
>away!
>Jennifer A.
>
>At Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Kristina wrote:
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>>I was all happy that I didn't have shoulder pain, but I spoke too soon.
>>At about 3AM last night when I layed down, it all the sudden hit me. I
>>couldn't take deep breaths or my chest felt like someone was stabbing
>>me. My shoulder felt like it was going to fall of. The pain is about
>>10 times the intensity of the abdominal pain/cramping. I couldn't cry
>>because that made my diphragm spasm and caused excruciating pain. I
>>really wanted to go to the emergecy room, but I just took a Vicoden and
>>waited. It never went away and I've only gotten about 5 hours sleep
>>since my lap because of it. I can't lay down really at all.
>>
>>I thought it was strange though, because I thought the shoulder pain is
>>supposed to be in the back of the shoulder. Mine feels more like it's
>>on top ad the front. The chest pain is just at my last rib (on the
>>right side). It gets better if I am very calm, but if I were to
>>sneeze...well, I don't even want to think fo how that would feel.
>>
>>Also, I have had to pee constantly, every half hour at first, now maybe
>>every hour, but it hurts pretty bad. Not burning, just pain in my
>>bladder. ANyone else get this?
>>
>>Vicoden s helping, but it's just taking the edge off really.
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