Symptoms of dropped surgical clip

[Heidihop]

10 years ago I had my g/b removed by keyhole surgery. Last week by coinsidence an Open surgical clip was noticed in my pelvis above my bladder. As I was extreamly ill, abdominal pain, severe back ache, my doctor send me straight to hospital. This was the hospital where I had that surgety 10 years ago. Two doctors who examend me agreed that the symptoms I had were not related to the Clip. I do suffer from diverticulitys and i am confused. My pain has not settled in the last 3 weeks and I do not have a diverticulitys attack. Can anybody please tell me, what are the symptoms of having a clip in your pelvis?



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[Sunshine2879]

I have samples inside me. I have been in pain nearly 3 years. I went for a X-ray and I have a row of samples each side of my tubs. Are the suppose to be their ? No one never told me about the I do not want to sue them I just want them to pay for them to come out!! I hurt everyday they keep saying it is pms but it isn't I feel like it is something else:(  

[pcook1978]

I have a 'dropped surgical clip' in front of my bladder and have a lot of pain like a kidney stone stuck in the ureter. I had a ct scan to look for a stone and if I hadn't gotten my own copy of the report I might never have known it was in there. The report said no stone, so I have to wonder if the clip is causing the pain. If you know someone in the medical field, find out if there's someone they can ask. I have several nurses in my family I'm going to ask. Where the clip is and where the pain is is too much coincidence.

[dawny75]

I had almost same prolbem you had but they found a stample on my uterus attched to my spine never showed in xrays or mri. Now im have more pain in my si joint had injection 2 times not sure mabye i should tell them what gyn found cuz she said they never should use staples inside a body ever that help me but now pain same thing i have in lumber spine and si joint iv had more xrays and mri but nothing shows. Im seeing a pain doctor and mabye i should tell him cuz my pain never goes away and i am almost 9 years ago the gastric bypass most doctos dont beleve me when they never see anything in xrays i have a rememtology doctor iv told him my back hurt he never did anything but give me pain pills now they really dont work cuz long term use of them . I hope ya get better iv never tell anyone to do gastric bypass after this i was happy with wait loss but never again for this kind of pain

[aisha46]

Hi, I had a hysterectomy done nov 2011.  A couple of weeks later I saw my family dr. As it felt like I had a urine infection.  I did a urine test which showed blood in urine. It was left as it could of been due to the healing.

Last week I had a very sharp pain in my pelvis and lower back and hip.  I went to the e.r and was told it was sciatica. I went to a chiropractor as I could not deal with the pain and was told it was the psoas muscle and saw yet another chiro the next day who said the same.

The chiro sent me for x rays but the machine was down so decided that since I had a dr. Appt I would go there.

Saw my family dr. Who took a urine sample and again, blood in urine so she made me an appt to get a ct scan which will be done tomorrow.  I left and went for X-rays.  The tech came to double check my yoga pants to make sure there wasn't any zippers, and told e that I had a surgical staple or clamp on my left side.

The pain I'm feeling makes the pain from the hysterectomy feel like a walk in the park.  It is unbearable and if not for strong painkillers I feel like I want to die.  

The pain is on the right, the clamp or staple on the left which I have seen as I have the disk.  Could it be possible that the pain is connected.?

Also, would the surgeon not have to tell you this foreign object was left in if he knew or could it be a mistake.

I am going to go to the hospital and ask for my surgical report.  I'm guessing we have a right to this.  If it is not clear in the report this guy is going to be having a bad day.

I'm not impressed, but at the same time will be relieved if it is the root of my problem as the psoas muscle pain can be chronic.

If someone out there help me I would appreciate it.

[midnightangel20045]

I also had my appendix out in 1980, I also had a hysterecomy in 2002, however I have blood in my urine now and the doctor is ouzzled on why.
My hysterectony was suppose to be vaginal and ended up being done through nt abdoneb because the doctor ripped my bladder when she was extracting my uterus. They had to stop and perform an emergency repair on my bladder. I am thinking it is because she left a clip in my stomach and it now has shown up on my abdominal CT scan. Could it be that it has infected my bladder, well I don't know but it sure seems that something has messed my bladder up to cause blood in my urine. Any suggestions on how to find out?

[dojoandky]

Sounds to me like you had happen what happened to me after my galbladder removal.  The doctors fail to tell you that 30% of the people who have their gllbladders removed eventually will have surgically induced Celiac Disease.  You need to go on a gluten free-dairy free diet IMMEDIATELY!  The gluten and casiene proteins in your food are not being digested by your intestines anymore, thus causing the horrible diarrhea problems.  Ikow, it happened to me for about eight years before I found the answer.  NO THANKS TO ANY OF THE FIVE OR SIX DOCTORS I SAW TO TRY AND FIGURE IT OUT.   You need biopsies done of your intestinal tract.  They'll probably show the damage villi, which lie down on the intestinal walls, thus not absorbing the nutrients in your food (ie the gluten in wheat, oats, rye, barley, malt, hops, and on and on and on), thus causing your food to literally pass right through you.  because you have no gallbladder, the liver attempts to take over its function of sporadically sending out the bile to break down you food, but it can't do that, so it only can do a DUMPING action of bile, also causing that horrible sense of urgency when you  get the diarrhea.    I wish you the best!