1 Year abdo pain
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So main points including tests and medication:
20 year old male, previously healthy, no major medical history prior to this
abdominal pain started 2016
GP done blood tests and found H Pylori
Triple therapy of antibiotics with no luck
A&E visit - Laproscopic appendisectomy - May 2016
Urinary retention started May 2016 and is intermittent - had catheter > 6 times
Blood in stools intermittent, but when it does occur vast amounts of blood
Have had colonoscopy, ultrasound, X ray, CT scan, stool test, urine tests. blood tests and have a video capsule endoscopy appointment this wednesday - very sceptical about this
Been kicked out so many GPs due to this problem and me feeling they are not doing anything
Went private - £££
medications:
Loperamide
Movicol
Ibuprofen 400mg
Clarithromyosin
Metronidazole 400mg
Co - Amoxiclav 625mg
Mebeverine 135mg
Calpermin IBS Relief
Ibuprofen gel
Docusate sodium
Paracetamol 500mg
Senna 7.5mg
Maalox suspension
Peptac
Omeprazole
Nitrofurantoin
Amoxicillin
Cefalexin 250mg
Mesalazine 1g suppositories
Codeine Phosphate 15mg
Anusol ointment
Buscopan 10mg
Daktacort cream
Tramadol 50mg
Trimethoprim 200mg
Dicycloverine Hydrochloride 20mg
Naproxen 250mg
Scheriproct suppositories
Scheriproct ointment
Tamulosin 400 micrograms
Co - Codamol
Dicolofenac sodium 50mg
Amitriptyline 10mg
This pain is very bad currently and no one is really doing anything. Its in my lower abdomen, genital area, pain when urinating and opening bowels, spreading in legs, in lower back.
Any help please?
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rocky31676 moneab48348
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Pain would probably be a referred pain from the lower abdominal area, and can be related to kidney infection or aortic aneurysm.
moneab48348 rocky31676
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These are all the medications which I was on, not all at the same time of course. The only one which I take now but I will stop becuase it's not working is amitriptyline 10mg
Kind regards
sanya11314 moneab48348
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Hello again moneab,
The urinary retention started in same month as your appendectomy.
May I just ask, if it started on the day straight after operation?
We had same problem after appendectomy, BUT were told not to use a catheter as long as possible to avoid getting used to it.
That urinary retention was a common side effect after surgery/anaesthesia.
We gave it 4 hours with was hard due to iv fluids building up in bladder,
lot of time on toilet (even just after surgery which is awfully exhausting and stressful), different positions, letting play with watery tissue in hands and dropping into toilet to distract or immitate wee. It finally worked.
One more hour and we would have pleaded for a catheter.
Being stress free when retention happens was our key and giving time. We couldn't stand anyone waiting outside to use toilet, so rather stopped, let them go, and go back again.
So if it was after surgery and catheter given before you could try stressfreely for some hour, it might have triggered the urinary retention.
Just a thought. Could be complete different issue and timing, but sounded like it as both 'May 2016'.
sanya11314
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moneab48348 sanya11314
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Urinary retention started before surgery. And then has been intermittent. Have had a catheter about 6 or more times.
Regards
sanya11314 moneab48348
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Aha. You have given yourself hours of time? (Awful if you think you are almost bursting and can't go) We had retention problems before surgery too, (but not as severe as straight after surgery, when it took 4 hours until being successful, and very interrupted successful), it never happened in one go beforehand either (always is interrupted like someone with a prostate hyperplasia), always low 'strength' - I mean low pressure behind it, like a trickling tap, never a full opened tap stream- and never possible, if stressed to be quick. Now we just know to give it time. But after surgery, ooof, that was another story. But you can go now, so that's good. I tried to find something about it, but it's not easy as most neurogenic bladder issues seem to be the other way round?
Also problem if waiting too long and getting too full, then it closes off completely and really needs a long time to open a bit, and then a bit again. Do you experience the same? Seems some muscle/nerve issue. But as long as it opens somewhen, we are happy.