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Re: Gas pains after abdominal surgery ???From: anon (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:18:23 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Curious wrote: > >Gas pains post op ??? > >I keep reading about the gas pains post surgery. It certainly makes me >uneasy. I had open abdominal surgery in 1978 for a small bowel >resection. Incision began above my belly button, ran along the right >side of it and down to just an inch or two above the pubic bone. I >didn't have ANY gas pains after surgery. I don't know how long the >surgery took but it couldn't have been too short given the work that >needed to be done. I didn't have a nasogastro tube before or after >surgery, instead I had a tube emptying my bowel coming out of the upper >left quadrant. > >I thought at first that those experiencing the gas pains were those who >had laparoscopic surgery. But the more I read I see that many had open >abdominal surgery and still experienced gas pain. WHY? How long does >this gas pain last? How many days? > >What did Mayo Clinic know 24 years ago that local surgeons today don't >know about today??? What surgical procedure "improvement" has been the >cause of these gas pains? Curious, I don't think it's related to surgical techniques, but it might be related to after surgery care (or lack of) or simply to the individual. I had a hysterectomy 2 years ago and c sections several years prior to that and never had a gas pain. And, no one I know has had gas pains after surgery, but I know it occurs. Where are you reading about this experience- from a message board?
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