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Re: To all of you that I have freaked out about the 'stick'
From: Elaine (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Apr 28 20:54:08 2006
Wow, thanks for the link Rhonda! You guys just amaze me with your
resourcefulness. I would have never found that link on my own! I swear
I have gotten more helpful information here than anywhere else,
including the doctors office.
To think all that equipment was used inside me! YIKES! After I had my
hysterectomy I had the worst vaginal pain that the strongest meds
couldn't quelch. Now I know why!
At Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Sabrina wrote:
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>Rhonda, I am just freaked out about everything in general with this. I
>have had a d&c before and everything was covered up and draped. The
>only one who "saw" anything was the nurse and my obgyn, lol. Seeing he
>had delivered my baby 8 days before, he had already seen everything. I
>had no idea about the rod thing for the d&c. My post op report said
>dialators and a clamp or something to move the cervix out of the way.
>Glad I didn't know.
>
>At Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Rhonda wrote:
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>>Ok, so ladies you are the only ones who can make me laugh out loud about
>>having someone put a metal rod up my "hoo hoo" and into my uterus, sorry
>>had to reuse that term as I have always found it funny, my sister uses
>>that term! I loved the one about running into that person in the grocery
>>store! SO TRUE!
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>>OK seriously I do feel that as patients we should have been told about
>>this part of the procedure. It explains some of the soreness. I don't
>>feel as if it is any reason NOT to have a Lap done. You have to think
>>about it this way if they didn't get your uterus out of the way it could
>>be damaged, and the doctor might miss a really important finding. If
>>you don't want to see anything then tell them to keep you all robed up
>>until you are under. Most doctors will follow your instructions, and
>>hey if you are awake and they start to unrobe you tell them to stop and
>>wait. By the way if you have ever had a D&C they do the same thing. I
>>have found a website that shows the equipment used and has pictures of
>>this "rod" and it being used. I wasn't going to post the website
>>because of how my first posting on this freaked out some of us. PLEASE
>>BE WARNED IT IS GRAFIC. If you don't like the idea of this then please
>>don't look.
>>http://www.laparoscopyhospital.com/laparoscopic_equipments_detail_5.htm
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>>I am a huge advocate of being a very active in your health care
>>decisions. You have to be, it's the only safe and smart thing to do.
>>Know what is happening or going to, research, research, and more
>>research. I have become more of an advocate from this experiance. I am
>>sorry to freak anyone out but I would rather have known about this
>>before, than to have read it in a report. Hope you are all well, this
>>is the "bad" week for me, got my period yesterday :-( Rhonda
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