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Re: I'm confused...please help!!!!!From: Teri (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri Nov 15 09:42:04 2002
At Thu, 14 Nov 2002, RH wrote: > >At Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Teri wrote: >> >>Okay, I'm still very confused! Is Endometriosis and scar tissue >>(adhesions) two seperate things? My doctor removed my uterus 4 years ago >>due to scar tissue and extreme pain, it was stuck to my bladder. Now >>the pain has returned and he says it's probably scar tissue again....how >>do I make it stop coming back. And how will surgery help? Won't that >>just create more scar tissue??? This is a vicious cycle! I asked if I >>had endometriosis last week and he said oh, no just scar tissue. Well, >>"just scar tissue" is keeping me awake at night and my back hurts all >>the time, it never stops. I'm not sure how to deal with this. It is >>especially bad on the left side, so then I thought maybe it was a kidney >>stone or my colon, the list goes on, but the pain is the same as before. >>HELP!!!!!! I have a lap. on Wednesday and my prayer is that he will >>find something...isn't that crazy....but at least that way I will know >>that I'm not just crazy. This is all very confusing, please help! Teri > >Hey there! I totally understand what you are going through. I have had >three surgeries for endo with the last being a total vaginal hyst. >Contrary to what the doctor says, if your ovaries were left in, the >endometriosis can most certainly come back. I know this b/c I type >medical transcription and I have typed on several cases of this very >thing. When they went back in to look around, they found endometriosis. >Even if it has all (ovaries, uterus, etc.)been taken out, the disease >can still resurface. How? I am not sure about that but they sure did >find endo at the vaginal cuff in one case. I am young and had the >option of leaving my ovaries. I told him no way, this is the third time >I have had surgery and I do not want to come back again. Of note, I >started having vaginal pain again two to three months after my TVH but >scar tissue is the culprit there! > >Best of luck to you >RH Hi! Okay, I guess my next question is if endo and scar tissue are two seperate things, but similiar, then how does scar tissue grow and adhere to things? And if it is scar tissue, won't I just forever be in and out of the hospital having it removed? And what causes all the pain? Also I don't know if my doctor ever did any kind of biopsy...do they have to do that to determine if it is endo? Thanks for all the help! Teri
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