Is it possible it’s just a muscle strain and related to the j pouch at all. The j pouch is located lower anyway.  

Could it be your gall bladder or liver?  

Gallbladder and liver is on the right, just under the ribs. This sort of pain sounds more like adhesion related issues, if it isn’t a muscle strain.

Jan

Thanks all for your kind reply. Jan is right with the gall bladder and liver being on the right. I think adhesions could likely be the culprit as it's now been 4 days and though the pain hasn't intensified it's still is present and hasn't been moving around. 

Is there a way to diagnose adhesions and to get rid of them or I'm I stuck with them? 

Adhesions are very hard to diagnose as the cause of a problem. Everything else has to be ruled out. Treating them is also problematic. If they are troublesome enough then surgery can be performed to cut (“lyse”) them, but 1) it can be hard to find the one(s) causing the problem, and 2) each surgery causes more adhesions. So it’s usually treated as a last resort.

Most adhesions cause little or no trouble. Some people have gotten their lives back from adhesion surgery, but you have to undertake it with limited expectations.

Hopefully this is just a blip, and soon things will be back to normal. Adhesions form within the first few weeks of surgery and stay indefinitely. If your gut twists against them, you get an obstruction. Sounds like you just have a partial obstruction. If you cut back on solid foods, especially roughage, and increase fluids, you should be able to pass whatever is “hung up” inside. This may or not recur and has little to do with what you ate. Some people find massaging the area and using a heating pad helps. The soreness can linger for some time after the obstruction clears.

Jan

I appreciate your pitching in Scott and Jan. Another few more days just past since my last post and thankfully, the pain has lessened when I press on the area of the belly that's been achy and the dull pain has pretty much subsided orherwise! So, yes, hopefully - and it seems like it might have just been - my guts twisting around adhesions creating a partial blocage. Massages did indeed seem to help aluviating the pain. Will try to remember to give you one last update in a little while.

The pain is completely gone!