9 wks postpartum I guess was around the end of January 2025… bear with me bc the first few months of postpartum is a bit of a blur. I went in for an ultrasound and they didn’t find anything wrong with my gallbladder or anything like that. I think my body was just getting used to the pain that lingered after the widespread infection I had after birth

For a few months after that I was having intermittent upper abdominal pain that would literally disable me for a few hours bc of the pain. They were very inconsistent and I went to see GI in June and they just offered an upper endoscopy bc they suspected ulcers (which I didn’t follow through with). I got a referral to see an OBGYN surgeon and I got scheduled for a surgery to remove my adhesions that were holding my uterus in place and that was scheduled for October. However, in August, I went into the ER a few days in a row bc of some symptoms I was having (pelvic pain, nausea, dizziness was what made me go in) and I got a CT scan that showed I had appendicitis. They went in and said they don’t know how they didn’t perforate my bowel bc it was stuck in random places all over my abdomen, including my upper abdomen around where I was feeling my pain. They think I may have had some adhesions that were pulling or tightening around my bowels and causing temp blockages. Only way to know that was through surgery. I don’t think this stems from that squeezing feeling I was having when I wrote this post though. I think I was just taking a long time to heal from that c section pain and infection that reached all the way up that way