Pain in left side after colonoscopy and endoscopy

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Hi there everyone!

I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy under general anaesthetic on Thursday and had an overnight stay at the hospital afterwards.

I expected a bit of discomfort but not necessarily pain and I was discharged on Friday afternoon to go home with no further action.

Since then I'm shaky, I keep getting very hot and dizzy, and my stomach on the left side is in a lot of pain (and weirdly the exterior of it feels itchy!) it's quite swollen and I've had to put some M and S support pants on to feel like it's supported (I wish I was kidding).

They took some biopsies so I thought maybe this was the cause of the soreness but everything on doctor google is saying it shouldn't really hurt.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or the nhs's or be a drama queen but just laying here in bed the pain is sore to the point of distracting and it's worse when I stand up. Anybody else had similar or can offer any advice?

Thanks in advance if anyone could offer some insight! 😊

Hi everyone,

Just checking back in to update! After a night of x rays to check for escaping gas, and an overnight stay on the surgical assessment unit I'm now home resting up.

The only things they found were my white blood cell count was a bit elevated and my inflammatory markers were pretty high, they said similar to if I were fighting a viral infection so they think it's just my body kicking off at the procedure/ biopsies/ not eating or sleeping properly for the best part of a week.

I've been sent home on strict instruction to rest properly and given a nice big bag of codeine. Thanks everyone for your advice on Sunday!

Glad you're ok.