So I've been having this abdominal pain on the upper right hand side. It's this burning, stabbing, constant for six weeks pain that actually wakes me up in the middle of the night even though I take three different kind of sleep pills. I decide I can't take it anymore and go to the walk-in clinic in the town where I live. They feel around a bit and take some labs and tell me nothing is wrong, talk to your pcp if you want more tests, it probably has something to do with your gastric sleeve surgery.

So I see my pcp the next week and she thinks it's a lupus flare and puts me on a week's worth of steroids and some topical medicine to see if that helps. Nope, sure doesn't so I email her to let her know. She emails me back and says call your surgeon, it has to do with your gastric sleeve surgery. I don't think it does because I'm eight months out, everything has always been fine, labs are great, no leaks, no fever, no reason to think that it has anything to do with my sleeve surgery except that it is within six inches of my actual stomach.

So this morning, I decide that I really can't take it anymore and I decide to go to the ER. The ER doc, who doesn't like me because he used to be a clinic doc at the hospital I work at and I used to do his billing that he was always screwing up, tells me that the ER is only for people who are dying and that I should be seen by my pcp. I just stared at him so he decided to run some blood work and do A CHEST X-RAY and then he's off work so I get a new doc who says call your surgeon, it has to do with your gastric sleeve surgery and there is nothing else that we can do for you here.

So I go downstairs to my office and call my surgeon....finally. And guess what? She says go to the emergency room, this has nothing to do with your gastric sleeve!!! WTH am I supposed to do now?

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I hurt soooo bad and obviously no one wants to deal with me, they're all just trying to fob it off on someone else. Before my surgery, anything that was wrong with me medically was because I was fat. Now after my surgery, everything that is wrong with me is because of the surgery. This is really starting to effect my life. It's making it hard for me to sit at my desk, I'm in a terrible mood all of the time because it hurts so bad and I can't sleep. I'm getting pretty close to the end of my rope. Any ideas? Thanks for letting me rant a bit.