Rumbling tummy and gas /wind before hysterectomy

Mollysue

I expect the excess wind will be due to your level of anxiety! You are low grade and stage and you have recently had an MRI scan. Excess wind isn’t a symptom to be worried about we all get it from time to time. Try and focus on the fact that your operation is next week and the cancer will be removed. 

Linda x

No, you’ve been told predicted grade 1 stage 1a and that there’s no evidence of spread beyond your uterus. Your symptoms will be down to all the worrying you’ve been doing. Even if you were restaged to a 1b or a 2 in the post-hysterectomy histology that would still mean the cancer was contained within the uterus. 

Hi mollysue

Are you eating regularly and your normal diet- or are you not eating so much due to all the anxiety?

Simple things can affect us when we have a diagnosis and are worrying. It is normal to think the worst and if you are really worried then mention it to your CNS but I know that the first things affected by me when I am worried about things- are sleeping and eating.

Jane

What a wonderful kind ladies on here 

no I'm not eating great just bits  even no main evening meal some days 

sleeping at night dreadful 

light on in middle of night reading for 2-3 hours 

not  calling my cns as honestly not found her great really during this so far 

Thankyou for  support xx 

Hello mollysue , may sound a silly question here but maybe i hope,will help you. But have you tried peppermint tea as i find it helps to gently remove the windiness and is gentle on the bowels and hopefully will settle the tummy. I hope your not waiting too much longer for your hysterectomy and the peppermint will help afterwards too with post op bloating etc.

sending gentle bear hugs

molllysue, as far as I understand it (as a non-medical person), a  peritoneal wash is a wash of the space that the uterus occupies as it can indicate ovarian cancer cells - ie something still within that space. It’s not a major diagnostic tool and is a kind of a little add on which may be of use. It’s nothing to do with the bowels. If you don’t want to talk to your CNS or your consultant’s secretary, I’d suggest calling the Macmillan helpline and asking to speak to a nurse. I understand and appreciate that you’re anxious about having cancer and having an op, but you really don’t need to worry that having the wash means something is wrong. I had the wash, it was negative and yet my cancer was restaged from a stage 1 to a stage 2 post histology. 

I just wish my tummy would settle down as so so gassy and rumbling but I've not been. To the toilet either fir 3 days !  Just so much gas all the time even though I'm eating bits 
I tried Gaviscon but did nothing 

Have you contacted your GP or your CNS? 

I'll call her tomorrow 

She may be able to suggest something to help settle things before your op.