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Re: To D, who just had a lap done ThursdayFrom: D (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun Jul 29 11:28:35 2007
Hi Andrea - Thank you!! I'm still sore, but I'm doing pretty good :) The surgery was thursday afternoon - it took about two hours, and Dr. Cook talked with my boyfriend afterwards and said that he removed "lots" of endo and some adhesions, too. The adhesions were mostly on the left side right where I had been complaining of the pulling pain! He also did a cystoscopy and found a few spots that might be IC, but it didn't look too bad. I have some frequency with urination, but only rarely have pain so that's about what I expected he'd find in my bladder. I was really out of it after the surgery and didn't talk to Dr. Cook, but I barely remember talking to the nurse anyway - she told me they found endo and I was so happy I cried! I was terrified I'd come out and again they'd tell me they didn't find anything, so it was a huge relief to finally an answer - even better, I could feel the difference almost immediately. It's like there's something that's not there anymore, I think it's really gone! I already don't feel so sick and my temperature is normal, where I had been running low grade fevers almost daily for about eight months earlier. He did a uterine suspension to tip my retroverted uterus forward, and I think at least part of relief may be from that - I don't know how to explain it except that things seem to be sitting right somehow? He called me at the hospital Friday morning, but even then I was still groggy and couldn't think of questions, I just knew I already felt better. I have copies of the photos but I forgot to ask him about the video; I hope we'll view it at the post-op (this Friday) and I really want to see it! I can see where he removed a lot of endo/tissue from the pouch of Douglas/cul-de-sac area, ligaments, pelvic sidewalls especially on the left - the lesions were varied - there were very subtle clear flat lesions that could only be seen with the light shining on them just so, some places looked angry red layered with white fibrous tissue, there were flat red ones, clear blisters, little red blisters and spots, and at least one big nasty looking adhesion involving my sigmoid colon. He didn't find any endo actually on my colon, I did remember to ask him that, it was near it and next to it - I had a lot of bowel symptoms and before I started taking the pill even had blood with bowel movements around my period, so I guess it really can cause a lot of irritation that way. Comparing the new photos to my first lap (June 2006) it's obvious the first doctor did not know what she was looking at, and didn't get close enough. It definitely got worse over the year, but you can see the bumpy reflections and red/white areas in the 2006 pictures that have now been excised! I thought that first doctor was "good enough" because she did excision - I was terribly wrong about that. If any doctor starts talking to you about "microscopic" endo be very skeptical! In my experience that only means that they don't know what all the different types of endo lesions can look like. I won't really know how well the surgery worked for a few weeks, but so far things seem very good. I'm only taking a little more pain meds than before the surgery, and I don't have that horrible sick feeling - whoever has been standing on my guts for the past several years has finally gone! The hospital was very nice, it only took the nurse one try to get my IV in, the room was private and my boyfriend stayed on the sofabed - I don't know how much better it could have gone! Thanks for the good wishes, if you have any questions please let me know! All the best, D.
At Sat, 28 Jul 2007, andrea wrote:
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-- Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/
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