Re: Was It Wrong to Ask? NEVER and more
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Mar 27 10:42:06 2005
Is it normal to have leaking of blood or brown-red fluid per the vagina
after a Laparoscopy if you have had a Hysterectomy?
It just seems like it should not happen after the vaginal vault has been
closed by the Hysterectomy.
For me it was disconcerting because it happened so long after my
surgery, almost 2 weeks post-operative.
Anyone have any insight?
At Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Tammy wrote:
>
>Forget the on-call doc.....go to someone else. There will be some
>discharge/oozing from the incision area (post lap), but not gushing
>blood. If you are on pain meds due to the lap....this may cause the
>decrease in appetite and cause nausea....especially if you take them on
>an empty stomach (for some folks).
>But, for you're piece of mind....if you don't feel you can wait for your
>doc to get back to town......go somewhere else!!
>
>Tammy
>
>At Sat, 26 Mar 2005, anonymous wrote:
>>
>>I am continuing to struggle with pain but am no longer vomiting. I have
>>not ate a single item of food today and barely anything at all for the
>>past 6 days. The discharge/bleeding is also continuing. The on-call
>>doctor said if I wasn't getting worse or the bleeding increasing there
>>was no need to keep my upcoming appointment in the office this coming
>>week. It is hard to believe that "as long as I am not getting worse"
>>there is nothing to worry about. Worse, no I am not worse. But I can't
>>imagine that not being able to eat, having this pain and discharge means
>>nothing. I know that the best scenario is to use hormonal meds to try
>>and shrink the cyst but what happens when that isn't working. I can't
>>think that leaving a patient like this is right? That this is good
>>medicine. It seems more like a punishment of suffering. When is enough
>>and what is enough to step in and say this is important, and something
>>needs to be done to help this patient. I keep praying that things are
>>going to get better and trying to hand on to hope, but this is so
>>difficult. Even if I am blessed to get better tomorrow or the next day
>>I am still going to tell my doctor about what I went through and how
>>long things went on this way. I don't think she will think it is
>>insignificant that I was unable to eat and was hurting so much. But for
>>now I feel at the mercy of the system and the unfortunate position of
>>trying to get help on a long Easter weekend.
>>
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