Re: pain and suffering
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Tue Jun 29 18:59:54 2004
I'm sorry to hear you are having such a horrible time. Have you tried
any of the natural suggestions that some of us have made on this forum?
If not, read some of the back issues. Maybe you will be able to find
something that will help some. At least get it to a tolerable level.
Laporatomy is just a bigger incision that the laproscoptic surgery. With
Laproscopic surgery you usually get 2-4 small incisions. Laporatomy is
usually one bigger incision. The docs usually use laporatomy only if
there is so much Endo that they can't get to it with Laproscopic (or
they just aren't skilled enough to do laproscopic)
Good luck!
At Mon, 28 Jun 2004, stephenie wrote:
>
>I am at a crossroads in my life where I don't know what to do. I have
>been dealing with satge 4 endo for sometime now and I have had 2
>laproscopic surgeries and in between the two surgeries I was getting
>Lupron injections. Since taking the lupron I have had some memory
>problems and severe vision changes. I thought that the lupron was going
>to help out and not make my overall health worse. I just had my first
>period after the lupron wore off in May 2004. And this month (june) has
>been a nightmare I am still having horrible pain, and was in the ER for
>8 hours the other night and the doctors said it is the pain from my
>endo. I talked to my doctors office today and they said that they are
>going to have to do a laporatomy and have to prep the bowle. I was at
>the point that I wanted to just have a hysterectomy, but my doctor knows
>how much I want a baby. I just can't continue this pain any longer, and
>I am sick of pain pills. Does anyone know what a laporatomy is? I don't
>know what it is or if it is an out patient procedure.
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