Re: No where no turn!!
From: Jess (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Oct 30 17:13:44 2007
Hi Cindy,
I am feeling for you. I had to give up my job due to the pain I have
been experiencing also. The money problems have been crazy since we are
living on my husband's salary alone (not to mention living in So. Cal).
Things for us got so tight that we had to turn off our phones and tv,
sell a ton of our stuff, drive one car, etc. Thank goodness we have a
great support system because our church actually paid our rent this
month, which is huge to us!
My advice to you would have to echo Andrea's...you definitely should see
a specialist who can get you some relief. It isn't necessary to have
lap after lap endlessly. Look at some of these specialists and you will
see that there is finally an end in sight for you! I personally am going
to see Dr. Redwine in Jan, so it makes the financial burden ok to bear
because I know it's temporary! I'm so confident I will get the relief I
need from him and life will get back to normal!
Hope that helps and gives you some hope! Let me know if you need some
frugal ideas in the meantime...it's amazing how much money you can save.
Tue, 30 Oct 2007, andrea wrote:
>
>Cindy,
>
>It sounds to me like your doctor does a crappy job at laps or you would
>have at least a couple years of pain relief. That doc must be making a
>fortune off of making people keep coming back for multiple surgeries!
>Regular OB's do not know what the heck they are doing when it comes to
>laparscopy. They are not qualified or trained to remove endo from the
>bowels, bladder, kidneys... and can make the mess in our abdomens even
>worse.
>
>I think if you had a good excision surgery with a specialist, you would
>see some relief. All those laps you are having cannot be good for your
>body either and are probably making a lot of scar tissue build up as
>well. A lot of women make the mistake of staying with the same doctor,
>even though that doctor is not really helping them much and things get
>worse in that time period. You really need to find someone else at this
>point who can offer you some better options.
>
>I know searching for a new doc is frustrating and exhausting, trust me,
>I've done it a million times...but you can't keep wasting your time and
>money on someone who is not helping you. Even with a hysterectomy, endo
>can grow back and I for sure would not let that same doctor keep cutting
>on me! A hysterectomy only helps if you have Adenomyosis (endo in the
>uterine muscle) Also, make sure you are not taking any estrogen...birth
>control pills with estrogen stimulate the endo to keep growing. Please
>get an opinion from a specialist and don't let that doc do any more
>surgeries on you. Another doctor could probably offer you more hope.
>
>Feel better & take care...
>
>--
>Andrea
>
>At Tue, 30 Oct 2007, CIndy wrote:
>>
>>I'm a 36 year old female that was told that a hysterectomy was the best
>>thing for me. At that time I was working at a job that I loved and
>>really enjoyed doing. I had to of course took time off work for that.
>>But, it was not but a few months I was taking of time to have the Laps.
>>Now I have lost that job and have had at least 7 to 8 Laps since then.
>>What is killing me is the money problems it brings, because you cannot
>>keep a job if you do not feel like getting out of bed, and if you are
>>always taking time off for each surgerys (which now they are happening
>>at least once a month). What do you do and where can you turn. I can't
>>stand to sit at home and fill sorry for my self when my husband is out
>>there trying to make what we were both made at once, and as we all know
>>that won't happen!! PLEASE HELP!!!!
>>
>>--
>>Cindy
>>
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