ENDO Messages for July, 2007: Re: after Laparoscopy surgery.......

Re: after Laparoscopy surgery.......

From: D (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Jul 1 12:14:39 2007

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Well, that depends on a lot of things. First of all, are you sure your doctor can thoroughly excise all of the endo they find? Can they find (and recognize) it all? if the answers to both questions aren't "yes" then you may never feel "normal" again, and even if they are, you may not! (yes, this disease stinks)

If you are having surgery with one of the endo excision specialists, they have recurrence rates below 20% five years after surgery. Most obgyns aren't going to come anywhere close to that, though - they usually burn the endo off and can't remove it completely. Some women who have it burned off find there's little or no difference at all. In any case, it will be at least a couple weeks after surgery before you should try sex, and you should ask your doctor, too. If the surgery works, it would be about 4-8 weeks until you are healed enough to know how well it worked and if sex will really be painfree or not.

I'm sorry, but honestly I'm a bit put off by your partner's need to know when you can have painless sex! (I would have thought differently if you wrote that YOU wanted to know...) And I'm sorry to say that the answer is "depends, maybe never"! Surgery doesn't work for everyone - what if your pain isn't being caused by endo at all, what if it's adenomyosis, endo in the uterine wall?

I do hope your surgery works!

At Sun, 1 Jul 2007, kate wrote: >
>hi, im due to have a laparoscopy in 4 weeks and want to know from people
>who have had this procedure how long after do you feel normal again. At
>present sex is not an option with my partner as i have constant pain. my
>partner really wants to know how long after the op will i be able to
>have sex again without the pain?
>any comments on people who were in my situation would be greatly
>appreciated.
>thanks kate

-- Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/

Try an excellent endo support group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/

Info on pain management: http://www.painfoundation.org/

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