Reverse Hartmann plus hysterectomy. Now suddenly urinary incontinence and nerve pain.

I had the colostomy reversed laparoscopically a couple of weeks ago. Along with it I had a hysterectomy for the large calcified fibroid. Uterus was the size of a child's football.

Everything was fine except for the horrible burning pain from abdominal wall nerves. No pain med even touched that.

Suddenly a couple of days ago I started with constant urinary incontinence. My sphincter muscles seem to be working, but I'm leaking every time I move even slightly and all night. I haven't been lifting. But I have been walking a lot inside the house, with 8 house guests and 16 for Thanksgiving dinner.

I see the general surgeon tomorrow. When I called the gyne surgeons' office, the nurses thought this was urgent and I might need to go to ER. I can't imagine what that would accomplish. I see one of the surgeons there in 2 days. I gave my PCP a urine sample, but that won't be cultured for a few days yet. He's got me on antibiotics.

I understand that incontinence can be a result of this surgery, but can it come on suddenly like this?

I saw my gyne surgeon yesterday. He said there's fluid in the vagina, but he couldn't see a fistula. It could be urine or peritoneal fluid. He offered me a Foley and a bag on my leg, but I asked what good that would do, as that was not where the leak was. I'm totally exhausted and still losing weight. I was fine until Saturday when this complication started.

I'm to go for "voiding cystogram" next week, and sit around for another week to see the other doc who participated in the lap hysto.

This is still better than the colostomy. That revision seems to be working well. I've got a fair amount of pain where the big incision around the stoma was. I suspect it's because of all the stitching the muscles together the surgeon did to repair the hernia.