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Re: What could be happening? Way worse pain after my lap.--to anonymous
From: Maria (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Oct 15 01:29:20 2005
Wow that was really nasty, chill out. This place is for support, not
attacks. You expect her to be 100% concice and clear when she's
freaking out about terrible pain? COme on, now. Just a friendly
reminder to just.. chill.
At Fri, 14 Oct 2005, anonymous wrote:
>
>Okay m, I did go back and re-read your post and nope, you did not say
>that you had been in touch with your doctor. You said that you already
>had appointments coming up in the next week or two - so, how was I
>supposed to know that this meant you had spoken with your doctor since
>these new symptoms showed up - especially when you said this: "i have
>thrown up eitherf from pain or from the strong doeses of pain meds ive
>had to take to try to reduce the pain so i wont have togo to the ER."
>
>So sorry I have committed the mortal of sin of not reading between your
>vague lines and showing concern for your health - you can be sure I will
>never make that mistake again.
>
>Ta
>
>At Fri, 14 Oct 2005, m wrote:
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>>you want to know what im waiting for? what im waiting for is the
>>upcoming appointmets i have made with my local dcotor and the xray
>>clinic for an ultraosund! these are the appointmnets my doctor who
>>performed my lap told me to make in response to my new symptoms. Im not
>>sure why you are making the assumption that I am sitting "silently"
>>instead of contacting a medical professional. I have done that and my
>>post clearly states that ive talked to my dr. and that I have these
>>appointments coming up. Im not sure if you actually read my post.
>>please do so next time before making assumptions and generalizin about
>>what "we women" do.
>>
>>At Fri, 14 Oct 2005, anonymous wrote:
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>>>Why is that we (women) tend to choose to suffer silently through
>>>troubling symptoms instead of following the advice we would give anyone
>>>else which would be CALL YOUR DOCTOR and make an appointment. A sudden
>>>increase or return of symptoms out of synch with the expected course is
>>>a warning signal that something may be wrong. It is possible that you
>>>tore something, developed an infection, have developed some nasty
>>>adhesions or any number of things, stop waiting for whatever it is
>>>you're waiting for and get your butt in the doctor's office.
>>>
>>>At Fri, 14 Oct 2005, m wrote:
>>>>
>>>>My doctor told me to expect to be healed about 2 mos. after surgery and
>>>>to expect my 3rd menstrual cycle after surgery to be the one where I
>>>>will hopefully expereince some pain releif . but he also said by this
>>>>point in my recoery i should not need to be on pain medcines at all (but
>>>>in the past week Ive had to go from taking like 5 mg of med every 6
>>>>hrs.(I was in the proces of tapering down to get of the medicine
>>>>completley) to taking like 35 mgs every 3-4 hours!) Stage 2 endo was
>>>>excised. during my lap. i also got a presacral neurectomy.
>>>>
>>>>what I am finding really weird is that both this month and last month i
>>>>seemed to be healing and my pain was reducing. i was able to lower the
>>>>amount of pain medication that i was taking and seemed to be on the path
>>>>to getting better, at least from the surgery tiself if not from my usual
>>>>endo pain. then when it got to be about 2 weeks before my peiod, my
>>>>pain skyrocketed (this is about the same point in my cycle where ive
>>>>always started expereincing really strong pain), and kept going up.
>>>>
>>>>right now im about 10 days away from my period and my pain is way more
>>>>intense than it has ever been at this point in my cycle. usually mymost
>>>>unbearable pan happens when i get my period, but right ow its so bad it
>>>>feels like i have my perid even though tis not due for a week and a
>>>>half. i have thrown up eitherf from pain or from the strong doeses of
>>>>pain meds ive had to take to try to reduce the pain so i wont have togo
>>>>to the ER.
>>>>
>>>>i do have a pelvic exam and ultrasoud coming up in the next week or two,
>>>>but I am wondering if anyone knows why my pain was getting so much
>>>>better then suddenyl became like 10 times worse in amatter of days. ha
>>>>anyone had tis same type of expereince? basically i fi went back to
>>>>being how i was before the surgery, that would suck. but i never
>>>>thought id be not only not better, but that id be worse! i hope this is
>>>>temproary because it is really scary tothink my pain has now increased,
>>>>when i felt it wa s unbearable even the way it was bfore!
>>>>
>>>>I appreciate any responses and sorry if i kind f keep asking the same
>>>>question over in diferent ways (im not sure but i might sort of be doig
>>>>that) I just dont know what im doing or whats going on with me and Im
>>>>freaked out. my doctor has not given an epxlanation that really
>>>>expalins this to me.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks everyone!
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