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Re: Would like to hear more about a laparotomyFrom: Endo (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu Apr 29 08:58:37 2004
I just had a laparotomy. It started out as a laparoscopy but then the surgeon had to convert. First, find out the reason why your doctor is suggesting a laparotomy. It's important that you understand why, before agreeing to it. The laparotomy was the worst experience in my whole entire life. I had surgery on a Tuesday morning. Surgery took about 2 hours and I woke up in extreme pain and started screaming. They had converted to laparotomy b/c the adhesions were so thick they couldnt see past it and found it hard to work around. So they made an 8" incision right above my pubic bone. They freed up my left ovary which was stuck to the rectosigmoid. Rectosigmoid was stuck to the uterus and they resected the right ovary and sewed it up and stuck it back down to the cul-de-sac. They apparently didnt give me any painkillers before waking me up. I remember hearing the nurses rush around saying my blood pressure was too high and they were trying to calm me down and bring the pressure down. They started the morphine drip and I was on morphine for over 24 hours before I was put on percocet after hallucinating about the strangest things I wont repeat here. On Wednesday early morning, the percocet ran out and I woke up in slight pain and called the nurse. The nurse didnt show up until 40 minutes later with my pain meds. I was ready to throw my tray of food at her. My husband was trying to calm me down but the internal pain was so completely unbearable. I was slamming my hand against the bed rail, shaking and shivering. Day three, the challenge was to try and urinate without a catheter. I spent at least 30 minutes in the bathroom each time willing myself to go. Turning the water faucet on helped but only motivated a trickle out of me. Nurses thought of putting me back on the catheter if I didnt pee soon. I decided to take a walk around the hospital. You're supposed to show that you can walk before they discharge you. When I came back from my walk I started throwing up. I was nauseus all night until I finally passed gas. I was discharged after the 4th day. My first week back from the hospital was bad. I could barely walk and it took me at least 3 or 4 days before I could actually have a bowel movement. Today, I'm off any pain medication and suffering with a real bad hemmorroid attack due to the milk of magnesia causing too many bowel movements. I can now feel the skin on my stomach above the incision. The skin below the incision is still numb. Yesterday I walked half a mile and today I will take my first drive in the car to go to a spa and relax and buy some hemmoroid cream. That was my experience. Did the doctors have a choice? Probably not. Would I do it again? I'd have to think really hard about it. I'd go to Atlanta first and try my luck with the Atlanta doctor and hope I never have to convert to laparotomy again. If I ever have a child, it's going to be natural child birth all the way. Forget the C-section. Still Recovering
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