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Re: lap question
From: D (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Nov 24 13:20:32 2008
Hi, I did go to work today,but I could only take 1 hour. I was on my
feet & my abdomen felt like a bowling ball was in there. I had a
headache that was my whole head. possibly a side effect from
anesthesia. I don't know what to tell you, I is surgery & I guess I
just pushed it a little too soon.
Diane
At Sun, 23 Nov 2008, D wrote:
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>I had this friday afternoon, took sat & sunday off, I'm a little tired &
>sore, she warned me to find my endo she'd have to move alot of body
>parts around to look.
>
>If you had a lifting job I'd say no just because you can feel pressure
>from sitting to standing. Tomarrow, I have some computer work & phone
>calls to do so I'll go in & do that kind of thing. I slept most of the
>day today, I'm still taking the vicodin so that I can recover more
>quickly. tomarrow when I'm off the stuff, I'll see how I feel.
>
>Diane
>
>At Sun, 23 Nov 2008, annie wrote:
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>>how long is the recovery period- are you able to work?
>>At Sun, 23 Nov 2008, D wrote:
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>>>At Sun, 23 Nov 2008, annie wrote:
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>>>>does the endo specialist usually do an excision of endo during the first
>>>>lap procedure or is the first lap just for diagnosis purposes? i want to
>>>>just get it all done at one time if needed.
>>>
>>>I just had laparoscopy 2 days ago on friday, She originally went in to
>>>look, but like you I wanted her to take out what ever she found, she did
>>>remove 3 areas of endo.
>>>
>>>Where I messed things up a bit, was she had mentioned that she had a
>>>theory that the endo was on my bowel. I had read on line it's safer to
>>>do bowel prep so that if she tried to remove it & damaged the bowel she
>>>could repair the bowel & the contents wouldn't be inside my body. So i
>>>pushed the issue of having a bowel prep. She reluctantly agreed & told
>>>me after the surgery that bowel prep made it difficult for her to treat
>>>me because my "bowel was all over the place" so trust your doctor!
>>>
>>>d
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