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Re: Does endo come back worse after lap?From: Leah (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun Mar 30 07:18:36 2008
I guess I've been lucky to have a really good doctor do my surgery each time so that I wasn't immediately suffering again a few months later--that would be terrible after undergoing surgery to suffer again so quickly--....I think the trick is getting rid of as many of the endometriosis implants as they possibly can when they do the surgery....you definitely want an ob/gyn who is experienced in doing laparoscopy for treating endometriosis who understands that he needs to search out every organ and area in the pelvic cavity looking for it! When they get it all removed, then yes, at least for me, it takes about 3 to 4 years before it builds back up again to the place of really needing surgery again. I may start to have problems before then of course, but will take NSAIDS and pain meds as needed during the course of the month. I guess for me, it's about every 3 to 4 years that it becomes unmanageable again, requiring new surgery. Actually I had my last one in 2004 and have managed this long, but due to some of the symptoms I'm now having that the pain meds are not helping with, I'm probably looking at having surgery again sometime this year. At Sat, 29 Mar 2008, anonymous wrote: > >Leah: Thank you for your reply! I'm glad some people has it much longer >for it to come back. 3 to 4 years is not too bad when I hear some >people returning in a few months. Do you have any special diet for your >endo? Thank you again for sharing your experience. It really helps. > >At Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Leah wrote: >> >>At Fri, 28 Mar 2008, anonymous wrote: >>> >>>Hi everyone, >>> >>>I was wondering when endo comes back after surgery does it cause worse >>>pain than pre-surgery? I've been hearing alot from people that it gets >>>worse but I was wondering if anyone here had it come out better with >>>surgery for a long time? >> >>Endometriosis almost always comes back, and my experience has been that >>surgery is usually needed about every 3 to 4 years. The endometriosis >>doesn't seem to be any worse or any better the next time around, it just >>comes back and has to be dealt with all over again. My pain always gets >>to the point where pain meds just don't help anymore once I have gone >>about 3 to 4 years post-surgery and it requires the laser surgery again >>to get rid of the endometriosis.
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