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Well I am glad to see that I am not going crazy. I have been with pain over the last 7 years. Almost eight years ago I had a c section. 8 months after the surgery I would be in severe pain.They checked all female organs and came up with nothing. I have been diagnoised with cyst on my ovaries to PID. Which in none of those cases they were untrue. My white blood count always goes way high when these attacks happen. I am not in always constant pain. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. It last for 3 or 4 days. I have been hospitalized over several times for this and they come up with nothing. They say I have an infection but they dont know where. after a few days without any medicine the infection goes away. I am just lost and confused and scared. I dont know what it is and the doctors dont know either. Last night it came again and I am getting fed up. It is to the point where I think something happened when I had my c section. It feels like a muscle pain and it right under my rib cage all the way down to my c section cut. If there is a doctor out there listening can you give some advice. I was just in the hospital over new years and I had an upper GI done. A utlra sound. A v____al one and a cat scan. I never know when it is coming. I can go three months without having an attack. sometimes six months. Now this one one is twice within two months. I am just glad to know I am not going crazy. Will I ever conceive again? I am only 28 and scared. hcole@thrivent.com

Wow!! i stumbled on this web-site and i am so glad! i figured i was being a real baby about my c-section. my daughter is 21/2 and i didn't start feeling human until she was about a year old. my incision is hip to hip. i am only 4'11" and weigh 100lbs. left side lump( i know they left something in there) pain, burning, and urinary frequency have just become part of me. mabe i will have the ultrasound my dr ordered for me after all. i felt embarra__sed and ashamed at my last pap complaining about the discomfort and thought the dr sent me home with the ultrasound order out of pity. Whew, this website made my day!! mchurchv@yahoo.com

My OBGYN stops seeing me after my ultrasound shows 'normal'. He said CT scan or MRI will not provide any more information than ultrasound. Liza, my incision is big for my tiny baby. I stop working out after my baby was born. My doctor informed me start excise again that will help me to tolerate pain better. His opinion is try to tolerate or handle pain better instead of finding out the cause. Did anyone has a surgery to remove adhesions? Thanks.

What a relief. I have been trying to find information online for a year and this is the first thing I have found that sounds like me. My baby is 13 months old, 2nd c section, 3rd child. I noticed right away that this c section did not seem to go as well as my first had. I had terrible redness and swelling and was also put on antibiotics for possible infection (sounds like many of us were). I have a lump on my right side and the scar looks asymetrical. I still have pain if I am standing too long, it is hard to excercise and it hurts when I get out of bed in the morning. I had an MRI and an ultrasound to rule out hernia, but they found nothing. My doctor has said it is probably a bundle of nerves. It feels close to the surface, but very uncomfortable. I don't know what to do next.

Almost two years after c-section, and constant pain on right side of scare that was worse when menstrating. I went to GYN found out it was incisional Endometriosis. And I need laparoscopic surgry to remove the tissue.

Superficial pain such as hypersensitivity to touch, burning, stinging is nerve related. From what I have learned so far, the ilio-inguinal nerve typically gets trapped...sometimes physically by sutures, other times it gets drawn in as the scar tissue matures and pulls on the surrounding tissues. I am having a cryo-ablation done to this nerve next week. This should resolve all of my symptoms from my belly b___ton down towards my groin and anterior thigh. It will make me numb for a period of 6 months. I will let all of you know if it works in case you want to try it. I do not have a lump anywhere on my abdomen. Just tenderness. If you have a lump it may be due to accidental implantation of the endometrial tissue into the muscle or dermal tissues. This will react to hormone changes and "flare" up during menstruation resulting in increased pain. Removal of this is the treatment recommended. However, if many of you are like me, we are still hunting for answers. I will continue to keep in touch and relay anything new that comes about. Best of luck . Liza

Linda, your OB/GYN is ignoring your problem. Yes, you must learn to function as much as possible, but you also can't ignore how you feel. They don't live with the pain the way we do...its easy for them to say just get on with your life. My Ob/Gyn keeps in touch with me. She doesn't have an explanation of what happened. What I know now is what I have learned from research and talking to other doctors. At least she justifies my pain and doesnt' ignore me. Liza

Irene, Get a needle aspiration of the lump to diagnose it. I had the same thing, 3 yeasrs after my c section and it was diagnosed this way and found to be endometrial tissue. Am having it excised on March 15 and my gyn (this is the third one) is doing a laparoscopy to make sure I don't have any other endo "lurking " elsewhere. Will report back post op.

I have had 3 c-sections and have had leftsided pain for almost two years. Recently, it is daily and I have difficulty sitting. I do think it is adhesions. I wonder what causes the pain to escalate like yours, summerrae. I have been doing more sit-ups and lower abdominal type excercises. Could this enhance or contribute to an increase in adhesion pain???? Ideas anyone..

Liza, thanks for your comments. I will try to get a third opinion if my HMO insurance will approve it. Do you have any suggestions what tests I should do next? I suspect my problem is adhesion. My obgyn said surgery removing it will not be the solution because it will build up again.

I just had gallbladder surgery january 7th. I have had severe pain and huge swelling in my lower abdomen where i was injected with a blood clot prevention medicine called lovenox. I have been stuck in bed since i came home from the hospital. I finally found a dr who agreed that i am damaged from it. he said i have deep tissue bruising and gave me prednisone for 5 days. it reduced the swelling and pain for a short while but then i swelled up again and am in bed. SO can any of you find out if you were injected with Lovenox? my email is Lori@twins243.com Thanks

Wow, I just had twins 5 weeks ago and it was my 3rd c section and I immediately noticed my left side was bigger, I went to the dr. 2 weeks after and asked about it she said it could be a hernia but we would have to wait until the 6 week check for swelling to go down. I have the constant burning pain on the left I'm so glad I found this site before my 6 week good luck to everyone!

I had a C-section 5 months ago, and I have had constant pain on my right, center and left sides of my abdomin. I have had this constant pain, since the two week mark after my surgery. My doctors treated me for UTI's, and put me on my way. When this wasnt working, they were putting me on stronger medication that should have taken the problem away. I had to quit b___stfeeding, because all of the medication was not good for my son. I went for ultrasounds, and the results showed that I had 2 black spots on my uterus and my bladder. The technicians have no idea what it is. I am on my way next week to go and have a CT scan of my stomach. I have been doing some research, and my symptoms seem to be along the lines of endometriosis. The pain is absolutly debilitating when I have my period, and I end up being in bed for most of it. Anyway, If anyone can give me some ideas as to what I should be expecting with the CT scan that would be great. allytaylor21@hotmail.com

It has been over seven years since my last c-section, and I can tell you I still have a pain on the left side of the incision. It hurts more some days than others, but it is a nagging uncomfortable feeling. It is due to the scar tissue, I believe, but I may have a CT scan to be sure.

Many times the ultrasounds and MRIs will return normal. Many of them will not show up with adhesions...if that is the problem. A diagnostic lap would allow for removal of adhesions and a good view of all of the internal anatomy. Surgery in this approach will reduce the amount of scar tissue that will form again because of smaller incisions. If cyst, ma__ses, or an enlargement of the uterus are identified they can be aspirated and sent to pathology for study. There really are no other forms of study to help. If your pain like mine feels more neurogenic in nature...burning, aching, sharp and stabbing at times, then a nerve block to be perfomed after reproducing the pain using a nerve finder would be a good start. I did this and we narrowed done the culprit as to being the ilioinguinal nerve. I just had the nerve burned today doing a procedure called cryoablation in which we use liquid co2 to burn the nerve. The numbness should last 6 mo. and there is the potential to do this permanently if we need to. I'll let you know what happens. Liza

I am heading out of town tomorow for my CT scan. Since my last post, I have developed a bump on the middle of my scar. When there is any sort of pressure on it, the pain is so bad, that I almost pa__s out. My incision is now swelling and red. I am hoping the doctors will find something tomorow. The pain is getting unbearable. Wish me luck!