Question:
Has anybody experienced severe sharp pain in the pouch area?

But also radiated toward the right side through the intestines and into the back? I just got back from the hospital where they diagnosed me as having 2 marginal ulcers after the endoscopy was done. I was in severe pain for over 3 hours the first night, given a GI Cocktain and it subsided for about an hour. It came back less severe (more of a hard dull pain) for another 12 hours before they admitted me. Xrays showed my bowels looking a little full of liquid, ultra sound showed perfectly fine gallbladder. Endoscope showed the ulcers. My concern: can those 2 little marginal ulcers cause the pain I experienced? That intense and for that long of a period? I have been on IV's and only liquids for 4 days now and still hear my pouch and intestines gurgling and getting some pains. They gave me Zantac in the hospital and Prilosec to start at home. I have been having bowel movements and passing gas ok. I'm just afraid to let my guard down and accept the doctor's diagnosis of just ulcers. He kept putting off the CAT scan and that was the one thing that would've shown the hernia or partial blocked bowel. No fever, normal white blood count. What do you all think?    — Dawn R. (posted on July 18, 2001)

September 16, 2001
I recently had the same experience. I had rny in January of 2000. I weighed 335 lbs to start and I had gotten down to 174 lbs. I have now gained up to 206 lbs. I am so discouraged. All of this started when I had these "Abdominal pains" exactly as you described. They were so bad that I had to go to the ER 5 times. They ended up doing x-rays, which showed nothing. Then I had 2 Upper GI's done with barium enema, nothing showed. I then had a CT Scan which showed only a hiatal hernia and an incisional hernia, which he says should not be causing the pain. THe last thing I had done was an endoscopy and all it showed was that I had Reflux. I have no idea when this pain will come again and I want to know what is causing it. He says he will not know if it is the hernia until he operates and I just can't afford to be off right now for an operation. I have no idea what is wrong. My family thinks I have over exaggerated my pain. I hurt so bad!! Only for hours and then it quits, but the good news is that I have not had the pains in a month now. I hope you begin to feel better.
   — Regina Deanne B.

April 14, 2002
I have experienced those same pains. They feel like to me a heartattack. It gets to the point where I can't breathe because it hurts so bad. I am 14 months out. The main time I get them is if I take a product with Coedine in it or something with Vicodine in it. But it almost feels like a spasm to me. And it lasts for hours. I press pretty hard on it, and rub in circles that seems to help it go away. But I definately have to be laying flat when they come on. You just never know when they will come on, I talked to the surgeon about them he could not find any hernias so he was unsure why it was happening. And usually after they happen, that area is very tender for a while after. Confused...?
   — Vicky R.