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Re: To all of you that I have freaked out about the 'stick'
From: holly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat Apr 29 18:13:55 2006
At Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Elaine wrote:
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>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!
well, that explains why we bleed so much afterward. i always wondered
why. in the operative reports, they mention the manipulator, but it
sounds so benign the way they talk about it. thanks for the link. i
appreciate knowing. i always want to know what they're doing in there.
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>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.
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>>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!
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>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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