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Re: how long is a lap supposed to take?
From: Erica (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Jul 11 11:57:56 2005
I just had a lap done Thursday. I was in for about an hour and a half.
Before my doc went in we discussed EXACTLY what was going to be done. He
was doing a LUNA and he was going to look around at everything. He
checked every side of every organ. He excised an endo that was found. I
have been told repeatedly and especially after having this procedure
done that it makes NO difference how much endo is in there. There is no
correlation between the amount and the pain.
If you aren't getting the answers that you need and most of all if you
don't trust your doctor, get a new one. It has taken me a while to find
this doctor and while I am still waiting to see how I'll feel after I
heal from the surgery, I trust that he looked around and did what needed
to be done.
As a side note, he found pocket of endo that had been there a while that
the two other docs who did my other two laps missed.
Take care, Erica
At Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Carrie wrote:
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>I started seeing my OB in december for what I thought was a pelvic
>infection and the accompanying pain.
>
>He put me on antibiotics and they did not work. After 5 rounds of
>those, each time increasing to a more powerful anti, and 2 ultrasounds
>which showed pockets of fluid that he guessed were pus from the
>infection, he performed a laparoscopy which found an inflamed appendix.
>He was VERY excited to find this, as he thought this was the answer to
>the persistent "infection" that wouldn't go away.
>
>He told me hours after the surgery that this was the answer, blah blah.
>I was a little skeptical as I had never felt any pain in the appendix
>area and most of my pain is down low--in the tailbone region.
>
>He said he found some fibroids, a cyst on my ovary and some
>endometriosis, but "nothing to worry about".
>
>My gut feeling--and that of my husband, who was in the waiting room--is
>that he went IN looking for an infection (as opposed to having an open
>mind about what he would find) and found the inflamed appendix and
>stopped looking. The surgery was about the same length of time, even
>though there was an appendectomy performed.
>
>How long did your lap last and are there any spots that are hard to get
>to? I am *dreading* having another lap performed (I have 3 small kids)
>but I just don't think this doc was looking for the correct thing and
>for the correct amount of time.
>
>When I asked him about this, he said, "Look I was IN your body. I know
>there is no endo." I replied that he told me there was, immediately
>following surgery, and he said Well not enough to worry about.
>
>I feel pain down low in the cul de sac area. I am not convinced that he
>looked this hard after spotting the appendix.
>
>I'm sorry this is so long. I feel as if I am some kinda detective who
>is figuring out what is wrong, instead of trusting the doctors whom I
>PAY to do that. I keep searching, looking, trying to find an answer.
>
>Chronic pain for the rest of my life just is NOT going to work for me!
>
>Thanks for your help..
>Carrie
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