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Re: Anyone have a similar experience and what was your outcome?
From: Lynn (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Jun 18 07:21:40 2007
If your ovary is covered with the small bowel and your doctor has
suggested a "Team" of doctors (which i praise him/her for recognizing
they can not do this themself) you chance the small bowel stangulating
your ovary and that can be dangerous.
At Fri, 8 Jun 2007, greyladybug wrote:
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>I was diagnosed with stage IV endo April 06 after a laparotomy to remove
>right ovary d/t a 10cm cyst. I had a lot of endo on my bowels that they
>had to remove. In march of this year, I found I had a new cyst on left
>ovary, this one 12cm. I had a lap on Tuesday to remove the cyst, but
>when they got in my abodomen, I had a lot of adhesions, and my ovary was
>covered with my small bowel. They closed me back up and rescheduled my
>surgery for July when a gyn oncologist could be there along with my
>reproductive doc to help get the bowel moved. My question is if any of
>you think another surgery is worth it or not. My fear is that a lot of
>my pain is caused by the adhesion pain and bowel involvement rather than
>the endo. And if it is being caused by those things, another surgery
>will just make the adhesions worse and what is there to stop my bowel
>from ending up all stuck to everything again? Plus, my doc really don't
>know that it will help my fertiltiy at all. And if it is not going to
>help my fertility or my pain, why should I have an open abdominal
>surgery again? Any advice or similar experiences would be really
>appreciated.
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