Severe pain after a colonoscopy

[garrcat]

I had a tremendous amount of pressure in my stomach area that was making me short of breath.  I was told it was my colon.  Previously I had a cat scan which showed normal.  I had a colonoscopy done in January 09.  They gave me demerol, I remember waking and saying " it hurts" and was immediately knocked out again.  I was released a couple hours later with the home instructions of take whatever I had at home for pain.  Got home and slept for hours.  When I woke up I was in excruciating pain, cramping on my sides and pain on top of my stomach area.  It was so bad I was putting the electric heater on my stomach, and nearly burning my stomach.  I called my dr.  left message, he did not call back, I called and called and he never returned my call, and this was 6 days later.  Finally the extreme cramping let up some,  I went back to him 2 weeks later, and asked why he never called me back, and I told him it felt like he took an apple core and cored something out on top of my stomach.  He said I have a small ulcer.  I then asked him when is this cramping supposed to stop, and he looked puzzled and said, you may have irritable bowel.
I never had bowel problems before.  Was always regular.  Anyway he never told me to take any tests and just left me in this excruciating pain.  I am ready to shoot myself in the stomach to stop this pain.  Nothing I take will stop it.
The sides of my stomach cramp non stop, and on top my stomach where the ulcer supposedly is, I have alot of pain and pressure.  I am afraid to go to any dr. now.  I don;t know what to do.  But I absolutely cannot survive this pain anymore, I have not been out of bed since he did this to me.  
What is wrong with me.  I also have previous back problems., a burning down my spine from the neck down to a little past the midddle of my back.  
Help.  I want to go to er, but am afraid.

[Angrypatient]

SURGICAL CLIPS IN THE PELVIS - I felt just like you do. The pain after my g/b surgery was so bad. Couldn't walk, sleep, laugh, nothing. I had surgery two months ago. After the g/b removal the pain was so bad I thought I would die. I pretty much lived on pain meds for about two months. I went back to the doctor one week after the operation and he could not imagine why I was having all this pain and how swollen my stomach was. He even ventured to make a comment to me which was - the only way you could be having this much pain is if I stitched your intestines. He sent me to a different office to have a cat scan and later that day said it was fine and I should give it a little longer to heal. Well a few week later wound up in the hospital with elevated blood pressure from the pain. After a few doses of morphine the took me up for a sonogram, cat scan and some x-rays. When the hospital got the results they told me they would consult with the surgeon who removed the gallbladder and at this point after me suffering for so long and the calls back and forth to his office I frankly did not want him even in the same room as me. To make a long story short you cant see a different doctor post op an operation. He came in he saw the results of everything and told me there is a problem and we should go right up to the operating room so he can do an exploratory operation to find the problem. I did not want him operating on me a second time so told him I would be back on Monday to do the surgery. I dont like hospitals but knew I needed this operation in order to get back to phsical activities and my normal life. Anyway the surgery was done and I felt much better than I did in a long time. I still had pain but not the severe pain I had experienced due to the first operation. This time I could actually walk. Still had to take pain med but only for two weeks and I am almost back to normal. I was very suspicious about this whole deal because the doctors response to what was found during the operation that he fixed was "I found nothing - but sometimes when you open it back up again it can fix itself. Can you even bellieve he said that! I gathered all of my medical records to inspect them myself and guess what - Low and Behold the was a clip in my pelvis. Now I wonder if when he saw it in the cat scan knew what he did wrong and went in there to fix it. I need another cat scan now to see if that clip is gone  because if it is then he went in there the second time and fixed his mistake and removed that clip. This is my conclusion of what happened. Hope you feel better but you really need to get cat scans or x-rays to see what is going on. All of my blood tests and everything was normal so you can't really tell from those things.
Angrypatient

[garrcat]

Thanks.Yes you are right.  I can't stand this pain anymore., I am just very scared.  I just can't imagine what is wrong, and why that Dr. just blew me off.  Oh well, I am going to get my nerve up to go this weekend.  I just hope they don't treat me as bad as all the other hospitals I have been to in this last year.  Geeze, if I would have known getting older was going to be like this, I definitely would have had a plan.  My grown kids have witnessed alot during this, I hope if I am not around they remember all this.

[TrudieC]

You can't live like this.  Go to the ER, get checked out, and get some peace of mind.  Good luck.