ENDO Messages for November, 2006: Re: Please help - I only have two days before surgery and need advice!!

Re: Please help - I only have two days before surgery and need advice!!

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Nov 27 07:15:22 2006

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In reply to: anonymous: "Please help - I only have two days before surgery and need advice!!"

If you are really unsure, you can always get a 2nd opinion - you do not have to go through with this surgery!

Some things to talk to your doctor about - is he going to do a cystectomy and excise the cyst completely, or just drain it? Without the cystectomy, chances are good (bad?) that is will come back, it will just fill up again. Also, is he going to look for endo in other places and remove it? The answer should be YES! He should be removing every last speck, no matter where it is. And finally, is he doing excision, or burning it with a laser? Excision is very much the preferred method. Many women who have their endo burnt off with a laser (ablation) end up back in pain within months because the doctors cannot get it all by burning - they can't tell how deep they need to go, and they may damage healthy tissue with carbon deposits and burns.

He may need to do a laparotomy because of adhesions and scarring. In any case, you need to talk to him now!!

Best of luck!

At Sun, 26 Nov 2006, anonymous wrote: >
>I have been diagnosed with Stage IV endo. I had a chocolate cyst
>rupture in 2001 and the docs had to do an emergency laparotomy to take
>it out - along with part of my left ovary. I also had a c-section with
>my son in 98.
>
>I now have a chocolate cyst on my right ovary. I am scheduled for a
>laparotomy on Wednesday of this week to remove the cyst. Some people
>are saying this is extreme - and the doc should be able to do it
>laprascopically? I don't understand why he can't do it laprascopically
>myself - is it because of the prior surgeries? Has anyone had prior
>abdominal surgery with successful laps? I hear the recovery is much
>quicker - and would prefer that he try to do it this way. Any thoughts?
>
>Also, my doc seems to keep saying I should prepare myself for removal of
>the right ovary and tube- but I want him to try to keep it! I only have
>a piece of the left ovary, and if the takes the right one also, I could
>go into surgical menopause. Being that I have a heart murmur, my
>ovaries are important to my heart health.
>
>I feel like I'm getting the run around with every doctor I've been to
>and have no one to turn to - except for other women who may have been in
>this situation. I am asking that you please reply. My family and I
>would be most grateful.
>
>God bless,
>
>Michelle

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