Author--Shari Lynn Gardner's account of the complications she is still dealing with in regards to having bariatric surgery and then having her gall bladder removed. She hopes her research can help someone else with similar symptoms. She is NOT a doctor, so do not take any of this as medical advice, see a doctor.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
More tests?
Saw the gastro-specialist yesterday afternoon....more tests, here I come :) We'll see where this leads now. He scheduled me for a CT Scan with contrast of my abdomen and my chest for tomorrow morning (3-23). He also called a consult while I was at his office, so I will now be seen by three doctors--as gastroenterology specialist, a general surgeon, and a pain management specialist. I meet with the general surgeon on 4-2 to discuss the results of tomorrow's CT scan. Both doctors are suspecting I may have a tear, either in the mesh from my para-esophageal hernia repair, under the mesh within the muscle, or there may be a tear in the abdominal wall. All three have the symptoms that I am experiencing, so we'll see what this test shows, if anything. In the mean time, they also want me to see a pain specialist, since the current pain medications are not cutting it and they explained there are many other options available. Not sure when I'll get in there, but at this point, any kind of movement towards a solution is better than just being passed around from uncaring doctor to the next uncaring doctor, right? I'll post again soon.
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