Lower back pain

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My mum was diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer with liver mets. She had an emergency surgery earlier this week where they removed the bowel tumour, her uterus and ovaries. She's of course now very sick but the pain in her abdomen is gone. The issue is she's still experiencing terrible lower back pain, which the nurse from the pain management team said was unrelated to the tumour. Has anyone experienced back pain and have tips on how you managed it? Thanks in advance.

Kareno62 over 3 years ago

Hi Highskies. It’s quite common to have back pain after surgery - your mum will have spent several hours on a hard operating table then spent the night potentially sleeping in a position that she’s not used to or one of those horrible self inflating mattresses.
I found I got a dull ache at the bottom of my spine after a small amount of walking and the stoma nurse told me that it was just things starting to heal and knit back together inside so just to take it easy for the following couple of days.

Is she still in hospital? If so then she needs to push for some extra pain management, if not perhaps you could ring the ward for some advice?

Hope things start to improve soon for her

Take care

Karen x

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Highskies over 3 years ago in reply to Kareno62

Hi Karen,

Thanks for your message. Makes sense but I hope it doesn't continue indefinitely as she is really struggling with it as was prior to surgery.

She is still in hospital so I will get in touch with the ward to push for more pain management.