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Re: Possible endo in uterosacral ligaments, but can't be seen?From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue Oct 2 17:36:44 2001
At Tue, 2 Oct 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: > >Dear Leanne, >endo is sometimes a mystic thing. And you had done the right thing to go to get an second opinion. >If you do have the pain , please get it treated and the gynea did a good job, that he will have a propper look at you. You should know , that the endo in May might have been so small that it was microscopic and for the one operating you, not visuable on that time . >So you're really as well of to take that offer and get it checked. And when the gynea is investigating you , you can ask him , what he thinks .And than make a decision together how to approach the prob you have. > >Best of luck - you sound like you are in good hands!!! >Sybille >anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I have pain during intecourse and sometimes after orgasm. I had painful >> periods growing up, but being on the pill has helped that. I've had 2 >> laps, one in 1999 and one May this year. They removed a small endo cyst >> on an ovary in the 1st lap, and in the 2nd removed some fibrous tissue >> on a uterosacral ligament, but couldn't tell if it was endo or not. They >> couldn't see anything anywhere else, and the dr my gyn sent me to has a >> good reputation for laparoscopic surgery. >> >> Unfortunately I still have this pain. I went back to the original gyn >> who operated on me last year for vulvadynia, and he also used to work on >> chronic pain. He still feels it is endo, and thinks that it is within >> the uterosacral ligaments, even though they couldn't see it in the lap. >> He's checked the pain mid cycle, and I'll have another internal exam >> next week at the start of my period. As there don't seem to be other >> definite tests (and I don't want to try hormones again!) he says that if >> it's still painful, he wants to do a laparotomy to resection the >> ligaments. I would also have a colonoscopy first to rule out rectal >> endo, but he doesn't think it's there. >> >> Has anyone been told there was endo in the ligaments even though they >> couldn't see it? Or has anyone had the ligaments resectioned through >> laparotomy? Did it help? >> >> Thanks, >> Leanne >> >lonlich
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