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Re: Still Bleeding From My Laparoscopy
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jan 20 18:58:32 2004
Were you diagnosed before your lap with stage iv endo? What do you mean
you decided to have a lap done? A lap is used to diagnose endo and it is
the only way that a diagnosis can be made, and it is not elective
surgery-a doctor has to recommend it.
At Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Faith wrote:
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>I was diagnosed with stage IV endo and decided to have a laparoscopy
>done. I had my lap. done on December 3rd, 2003. I was told I would
>have some bleeding afterwards like a period. However, I am still
>bleeding, over a month later. There have been some days where it has
>been very light and maybe a day or two non-existent. For the most part
>I have not stopped bleeding in over a month. I have had four different
>sessions where it was like a period, with cramps and all, but who has
>four periods in a month?
>I told my doctor what was going on in my visit with him last week.
>Originally, after my surgery he put me on "The Pill." When I saw him
>last week he told me to stop taking that pill and put me on another one.
>Now, a week later I am still bleeding. I called the office today and
>they told me to double up on my birth control pills, that I was "very
>hormonal" and if the bleeding doesn't stop in a week to call. @#$!!
>At this point I am a bit frustrated and think I actually felt better
>emotionally before my lap. It's like a never ending period and for the
>most part I have become depressed and irrational, especially towards my
>husband. We have not been getting along very well since the surgery and
>it has been very trying on our relationship. He says he doesn't want to
>be married to my hormomes, which was said out of anger but I can kind of
>understand where he is coming from. I am constantly tired and cranky
>and just want to feel better. Are these mood swings "normal" for what I
>am going through or am I just frustrated and being a brat?
>Anyone?
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