ENDO Messages for May, 2006: Re: my laperotomy....nurvous!!!FOR LORETTA

Re: my laperotomy....nurvous!!!FOR LORETTA

From: anonymous@obgyn.net,
Thu May 25 01:48:08 2006

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At Tue, 23 May 2006, teresa wrote: >
>SORRY LRETTA I MESSED UP THIS IS MY FIRST LAYEROTOMY...I HAD MY FIRST
>LAYPEROSCOPY AT 15 YRS OLD AND THEN ABOUT 1 EVERY 6MON TO LAZER OUT ALL
>THE ENDO AND WELL THE CYCSTS I HAD...WHEN I HAD MY HISTER AT 24 THEY
>DIDNT TAKE MY OVERYS(BECOUSE I WAS SO YOUNG)BUT ALL THAT DID WAS COUSE
>MOOR TROUBLE FOE ME DOWNN THE ROAD.. AFTER THAT I HAD A SURGERY WERE
>THEY TOOK 1/2 OF ONE OVERY THEN LATER THEY TOOK THE OTHER 1/2 IN ANOTHER
>SURGERY 2 YRS AGO.NOW LOOK I AM UNDERGOING ANOTHERONE TO GET THIS ONE
>OUT!! BUT THIS SURGERY IS DIFF. ITS BY A DIFF DOC, BUT IT REALLY SEEMS
>LIKE HE KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.(HE BELIVES I HAVE BEEN BUCHERED
>BY MY OTHER DOC THAT I HAD 4 YEARS)HE FELLS THERE IS A MESS TO CLEAN UP
>AND THAT THE OTHER DOC SHOULD HAVE DONE MORE TO HELP CONTROLE THE ENDO
>NOT ALL THE SURGERY!! AND THAT THE OVERYS SHOULD HAVE COME OUT TO HELP
>THE ENDO NOT COME BACK!! IM ALSO WORRIE ABOUT OVERIAN CANCER BECOUSE OF
>ALL THE SYPTOMES UI HAVE HAD, BWL PROBLEMS(IBS BAD) NASIA, THROUGHING
>UP, SEVEIR PAIN, GERD, ECT...JUST CANT WAIT TO GET THIS ALL DONE WITH
>AND KNOW EVERTHING IS AOK AND ILL BE PAIN FREE AGAIN , ATLEST FOR A
>WHILE!!THANKS FOR ALL YOUR THOUGHE A PRAYERS...TERESA
>
>At Tue, 23 May 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net, wrote:
>>
>>At Mon, 22 May 2006, teresa wrote:
>>>
>>>Well a nurse called from my doctors office today and said their was a
>>>scadualing problem at the hospital so they need to change my surgery
>>>just from friday may 26th to thursday may 25...Works out just fine for
>>>me i am just worried becouse yes i have had ALOT of surgery(21 do to
>>>endo) but i have never had a laperoscopy. I dont like the fact of being
>>>cut open again!!(2 c-setions,histerectomy)And i am nurvouse about being
>>>on hormones after my last overy is gone...Anyone have any sugestions on
>>>what kind(patches,pills,ect...)are easyer, or best??I havent had any
>>>problems with any of my surgerys also(knock on wood) and after reading
>>>on hear i guess well im a little peranoied!!!LOL..Well i know i am in
>>>good hands with my doctor and what ever the out come ill be fine!!
>>>
>>>--
>>>So Scared!! Teresa
>>>
>>--
>>Hi Teresa,
>>
>>Yes it is a pain to have surgeries canceled, at least it is not put off for
>>months down the road. Good luck and I hope it all goes better for you.
>>I think I missed some of your posts while I have been ill. I only seem to get
>> a chance lately to read and respond to a few at a time. So a few on the forum
>> now are a little vague to me, but I am trying to catch up!
>>Don't worry about the surgery, you have had 2 C-sections ( for birthing children)?, and a
>>hysterectomy, so I am sure you will do fine. As well you have had 21 other
>>surgery's for Endo? WOW..What did they do in ALL those ones? That is an amazing amount!
>>You are an old pro ! This however is the first laparoscopy? How did they diagnose
>> your endo the first time? I would be interested in your history as I find it
>> fascinating to know all the things you have faced in this disease of endo.
>>I am sure you are in good hands, especially if this Dr has done all your others.
>>Maybe 22 is the charm! I don't know what to advise on your question of hormones,
>> what have you tried?, or what are they advising?, when you had your hysterectomy
>>did they give you any? Let us know the details if you haven't already,
>>or lead me to where you posted so I can catch up!
>>All the best and prayers for your surgery. Loretta
>>
>--
>So Scared!! Teresa
>

-- Hi Theressa That clears that up for me, thanks. I get confused when one says Lap. A Lap can refer to a Laparotomy OR a Laparoscopy, each very different as you know, but some are not aware of the Lap meanings. I have to read of what the surgery was for and try to judge by that, however, so many surgeries now that used to be performed by a laparotomy are now being done by Laparoscopy, so it is hard now to tell. I see, as I, you started all this way too young. We barely had a chance to ever know what a period was like with out severe and crushing pain. I went to school with my friends of my age of 15, who were all excited to have their periods. I at 9 started, and by 15 was drowning in pain, they were celebrating having it and being a woman, I was praying I would have it no more and stayed home from school curled up in bed, in severe pain, from what I soon learned was endo and ovarian cysts. It is to bad we never got to celebrate what should have been a lovely experience. Instead we came into Womanhood crying out in pain. You have been through a lot of surgery's as well. I understand. Once you have had a few some say, why are you scared, you have had SO many already, you should be a pro! I don't know about you or if it is only b/c in my 10 th surgery I had anaphylactic shock when they first opened me on the table, but I find every one I have had, I get more and more nervous. I wonder if that is usual? But I do, the more I have, the worst it is for me. So if that is normal, or you are anything like that and can relate, I HEAR YOU, I understand you are scared. I think too it is that we know so well what recovery is like and it seems to take a little longer with each one to just pop back into shape and get back at it. And the older we get the harder it all is on our bodies. But on the bright side..... We know all that! We know how to make it through and get up and going so we will heal faster, not lay in bed and get stiff and sore. We know how to treat our stitches, get up easier, cough with a pillow, sneeze so we don't feel we are popping open!....and, we know to have everything done and in place when we get home to make life a little easier when we do. I don't know about you but after so many, I now play games with the anesthesiologist,(SP)!, I see just how long I can leave my eyes open, or get through telling him a joke. I feel if I make personal contact with every member in the O.R , and I make them laugh and see I am not just another body on the slab that day, my chances they will all take better care of me will increase dramatically!! So, I really go for making them remember and like me just before they put me out! Remember a great joke when you go in, if you don't make it awake long enough to tell the punch line, I have had him come to post op when I am waking up so he gets the punch line! GOOD reason to keep me alive if it is a good enough joke! LOl.

Don't drive yourself crazy thinking of cancer, those are also symptoms of other things like adhesion's, and more likely with your history, that is my biggest problem now too. Don't dwell on more terrible things, you have enough on your plate than to worry yourself about something other than something that A) you cant control right now, B) you likely don't have. Concentrate on healing yourself, with the Dr's help, of what you know you have. That is enough. If you focus totally on healing your own body you will increase your immune system and all the healing energies through out, your chances of it being a smashing success goes through the roof!, So concentrate on the positive!

I am glad you have another surgeon , I am sure he will clean up the mess the other left behind, positive thinking will guide his hands too! All the best, I am thinking of you, Health"n"Healing, Loretta

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