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Re: endo surgery 3 days ago, questions on recovery - Carol
From: Anna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Jan 23 22:04:15 2005
Carol,
Can you tell me more about the soft foods / liquid diet that you tried
to minimize gas before surgery? Could you give me some examples of foods
to try? I am preparing to have surgery sometime this winter, and have
major bloating problems.
Thanks so much.
-Anna
At Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Carol wrote:
>
>I had my lap on Thurday too. This is my 5th one. The other 4 were 13 -
>18 years ago before I had the hysterectomy (which was full open
>abdominal exploratory). The other 4 laps were nothing. They went in
>excized or lasered the endo and I was back to work in less than a week.
>
>This one though, WOW... percocet is not even working for a few days.
>Dr. MacKoul did not find andy endometriosis implants or adhesions from
>the prior surgeries. Whet he did find was that my right ovary was
>attached to my left ovary and that included a mass. He removed the left
>ovary and mass.
>
>Hopefully the right ovary is still working and will give me the hormones
>that I need. They do alot more now by laprascope than they use to do.
>So it is not a simple go and look. Previously all the pain other than a
>little bit of local tenderness was the shoulder pain from the gas they
>used to inflate the abdomen. That is not true this time. I have a
>major horrible bruise on my right hip (that is probably where the pulled
>everything out?) I will ask him about that.
>
>My best friend and Aunt are both nurses and I talk to them when I have
>concerns. Your amount of pain depends on alot of factors. What
>condition your were in before surgery, how much the organs were moved
>around, and of course what he or she did while inside you.
>
>I've also had severe bloating to the point I could tell how bad a day it
>was by the measurement of my stomach and whether I looked 6 months
>pregnant or 3 months. I went on soft foods to decrease gas two weeks
>before the surgery. That helped alot and was more than half the pain.
>Then liquid diet the week before for endoscopy and colonoscopy
>procedures. So eating again is a slow process. Everyone yelled
>"horaay" this morning when I ate scrambled eggs and they stayed down
>with minimal gas.
>
>Ask your doctor or better yet his or her nursing assistant about what to
>tell your work. I told mine minimum 10 day maximum 8 weeks. It depends
>on how fast you heal. By the way, I'm going to invent with the company
>that makes the thermopacks. They have been the greatest thing for the
>shoulder pain or where ever the gas dissapates.
>
>--
>Carol
>
>At Sun, 23 Jan 2005, lainey wrote:
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>>Hi everyone, I was scheduled for a laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, d&c on
>>thursday, they thought I had a large fibroid tumor. Turned out I have
>>endo, scar tissue, and ovarian cysts which they took care of during my
>>surgery. I am wondering what the normal recovery time for this type of
>>surgery is. I am able to get out of bed and move around a bit but have
>>pain even with the combination of tylenol/vicodin and ibuprofen that I
>>am taking every 3-4 hours. I have no idea when to tell my boss I will
>>be returning to work, etc. I don't know if I should be resting now to
>>let my body heal or start becoming more active again. HELP!
>>Thanks so much!
>
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