ENDO Messages for July, 2003: Re: 1st Laparoscopy on 7/24/03

Re: 1st Laparoscopy on 7/24/03

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri Jul 11 01:29:50 2003

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Mandy,

Good luck with your surgery in two weeks! I just had a laparoscopy done last month, they found endometrosis and burned it out. The cuts from the laparoscopy were what hurt, not where the endometrosis was burned out. I don't know if this is the same for everyone else, but it was not that bad. I had chest pains for a couple of hours after I woke up from the surgery, they fill your abdomen with CO2 (to see everything easier), so expect some chest pains. Oh, and if they give you Vicodin for pain, it could make you constipated. Which will hurt where the incisions are, sorry it sounds gross, but my friend warned me of that!

My boyfriend had to push me up out of bed because it hurt to use my stomach muscles. I had my surgery on a Tuesday and started to feel a lot better by Friday. I took that Tuesday off of work for surgery and returned to work on Monday. That was probably a good amount of time to recover. Don't be scared about this procedure, you'll be happy to find out what's going on, I did! Then I had proof that I was not crazy and finally found out what the problem was!

Good luck again and post us how you are feeling. Take care...

At Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mandy wrote: >
>Hi girls,
>I am have my 1st diagnostic laparoscopy in about two weeks. I really
>wanted to thank you all for your messages. They have helped me realize
>that I am not crazy and that this is real. I love hearing from real
>women who deal with it rather than only doctors and articles. I am
>pretty scared of the procedure. My mother had endo and didn't manage to
>conceive me until 32 years of age. I began my period at 10 years old
>and the pain began a couple years later. I was always told it was just
>part of being a woman. I am now 22 years old and I had finally had it 3
>years ago. I have heard IBS, fibroids, cysts, and of course endo. After
>about 10 doctors I finally found a doctor that wants to find out what it
>really is. Thanks to message boards and forums like this, I knew what I
>was talking about this time. No doctor was going to tell me I am too
>young ever again. THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORT!

--
Terese

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