Re: A simple trip to the ER consequently ended up staying 9 days
From: Marcia (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed Mar 7 07:53:44 2001
Dear Wendi:
No wonder I have been thinking about you for about a week, wondering how
you were! It's interesting that the docs thought you didn't have the
abscess until after your hyst...I searched the literature and found a
case where trauma was done from the hyst which caused bowel abscess...I
wonder if anyone mentioned that it could have been from your hyst? Was
your gyn involved at all in your hosp. care? I am no doctor, just
helping search for an answer...not saying this is true in your case, but
possibly?
I'm glad your abdominal pain has gone...sorry the others are still
there. I'm here for you if you need me.
Glad you're back at home!!!
--
Marcia
At Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Wendi wrote:
>
>Hi everyone,
>Most of you don't know who I am, but some of you do, and I've been
>writing in the forum for about the past two months and haven't wrote in
>almost two weeks and I wanted to tell you about my experience. It's
>kind of a long huge ordeal, but somewhat interesting. First of all I
>had a hysterectomy done on January 15th, with no luck whatsoever I was
>still experiencing pain. On February 26th I worked a 14 1/2 hour shift,
>bartending, running around like crazy and ironically enough after
>finishing out my busiest week, woke up the next day with severe
>abdominal pain. Although I am pretty tough and am used to pain, this
>was very severe. More than I've ever felt before. I also had a fever
>of 102' and severe diarrhea. At first they thought it was Chroan's
>Disease, but that proved wrong. Thank God. What they found was an
>abscess in my lower abdomen somewhere in the bowel area. What they said
>was that I had two cists one on the left and one on the right, they were
>connected to each other. Fluid was also found. Pretty weird because it
>wasn't an infection, and why didn't my Gyno find this during my
>hysterectomy? They were going to do surgery, but they tried everything
>they could because where the abscess was they thought I would have bowel
>problems later on in life if they did. (Bowel Obstruction) I'm so
>confused because now that the abdomen pain has finally went away, I
>still have the back pain and leg pain. They said the abscess has
>shrunk, but I don't even know if its still there. The doctors think I'm
>crazy. I know I'm not. I think they're crazy. They didn't give me any
>solid food for the whole 9 days I was there, and half the day they
>wouldn't even give my liquids. I know I'm not. For some reason its not
>O.K. to experience abdomen pain, but it is for back and leg. I'm
>running out of options. I don't even know if its Endo causing this
>misery anymore. The doctors seem to think the abscess occurred after
>the hysterectomy. I thought after the hyst I wouldn't have any more
>trips to the hospital, but now 5 weeks later there I was. Oh well, I'm
>going to keep on truckin somehow. My children and my husband were going
>nuts, and so was I to be in there that long. You'd think I would have
>come out of there pain free. Oh well, hope everyone is hanging in
>there.
>Take Care,
>Wendi Farbstein
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