ENDO Messages for June, 2004: Re: The reason for a bowel prep

Re: The reason for a bowel prep

From: D.N. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Jun 26 10:52:37 2004

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Hi Kristy,

I hope you are doing well. I wanted to say that I agree 100% about being bowel prepped for any abdominal surgery. For those who don't know my story, I was not told to be bowel prepped before my hyst. The hyst was primarily for fibroids, but endo was strongly suspected. I should have been bowel prepped because my sigmoid colon/uterus and left ovary were all adhered together. It was a very close call for me because the surface of the colon was denuded. The docs were very concerned that it was perforated. Thank goodness, it wasn't. Even for a laparoscopy- make sure you are bowel prepped. All it takes is a nick or if your organs are stuck together, and you could end up with horrible complications or worse.

The only other thing is that mag citrate by itself I don't think is completely adequate bowel prep. I demanded to be bowel prepped when I had my second surgery. I had to eat a clear liquid diet for several days along with the mag citrate, an enema and antibiotics. Even for tests like a flexible sigmoid, they have you do the clear liquids and multiple ways of bowel cleansing- like Fleet prep kit.

No, bowel prep is not fun, but the consequences are much worse.

Best wishes, D.N.

At Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Kristy wrote: >
>I'm going to repost something I said the other day for you all so that
>it hopefully be of help:
>
>"One who is having a laparoscopy to check for endo should have a bowel
>prep any way regardless of whether endo is on the bowel or not. The
>reason is b/c even just being in there to do the surgery they could
>accidentally puncture the bowel. If the bowel prep is not done and the
>bowel is full and your bowel is punctured you run the risk of major
>infection."
>
>Some have said that a bowel prep is only for if they are going to work
>close to the bowel removing endo and that is not correct.
>
>Bowel preps need to be done for any kind of abdominal surgery (yes,
>laparoscopy is abdominal surgery even though it's minimally invasive as
>far as the kind of incisions) to prevent from the possibility of the
>above. The above can happen at any time when they are in there working,
>it's not just for when endo is suspected around the bowel.
>
>Any dr who orders a bowel prep for their patients is doing a good job of
>making their patients safe and protecting them from the above
>possibility. If your dr does not and you are going to have laparoscopy
>or any other abdominal surgery pls buy something like Mag Citrate for
>example and do it yourself. It's better to be safe than sorry.
>
>--
>=====
>Kristy :)
>
>http://www.geocities.com/sokokl/Kristysstory.html
>

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