Question: Thanks, - Last Oct.4th I had my Gallbladder removed. The next day they came and got me again for a "simple" billary (sp?) duct procedure. I was never told it would take two operations for this and when I woke up I was in way more pain then the day before. It was also done by a different surgeon who I met in the operating room while being put under. When they woke me, I was told that they had "lost" a stent (that had broke) but it shouldn't matter and was xrayed to look for it. They didn't find it, two weeks later they had me xrayed again - at my pressuring -they didn't find it. Said it probably dropped into my stomach and I would poop it out,. I looked through my crap pretty carefully this whole time and never saw it. Then I began to get nauseous. It got so bad that I ended up being sent by my primary doc to the ER, more cat scans (or xrays) still no stent - then I was sent on the rosy go round of Neurology, (head scans), then another look at my kidneys ( xrays,etc) and (there were more looks taken) finally I am living on Phenergan,and a little valium - I have other health issues that may play into this - A bad surgery for a hernia repair in '94 left me constant pain and led to 8 more hernia repairs (or should I say repair of repairs) - anyway at her wits end my Primary doc had them do a upper GI (with Barium and air) - in these slides there is a picture none of my regular doctors can figure out - looks like pieces of surgical equipment to me -a layman - but these are the only pictures I have of it - oh, I also have a degree in physics and have hand built a lot of "spaceflight flight hardware" - I'm no dummy.
When I called the surgeons office he sent me on the afore mentioned merry-go - round of doctors but wouldn't see me. - I can get my primary to request a consultation - but at this point I'm at a loss - any Ideas and why wouldn't all the surgery have been done during the original lapro? Still sick almost a year later - any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. XXXXXXX Lockheed
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