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Re: infertility specialists dont know what LAPEX is
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Dec 25 21:42:09 2008
YEARS ago, doctors relied on surgery a lot more to help women. Too many
'fertility' experts rely on meds now, and don't know enough about
surgery. Or even its role in helping women, let alone HOW to do it.
At Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Kristy wrote:
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>Some of the top endo specialists are also infertility specialists like
>Dr. Perloe also in Atlanta (which I am not sure if he's still
>practicing right now).
>
>Endo specialists are regular OB/GYNs who gave up doing the deliveries to
>try and help other women with endo, and some of them also have
>additional training in Reproductive Endocrinology (the infertility
>specialists).
>
>The techniques used by endo specialists whether they are regular OB/GYNs
>or those that are also infertility specialists are not that much
>different than what is used by a private doctor in the community other
>than the amount of experience with those techniques. Not the names of
>the techniques.
>
>LAPEX is just another way to say that endo is being removed thru
>excision done thru laparoscopic surgery.
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>The laser is just an instrument used to remove the endo whether it's
>done thru excision or one of the other methods.
>
>For years it used to be primarily infertility specialists that mostly
>saw endo (read this in one of the books on endo) because of those women
>that were looking to try and get pregnant and couldn't do it on their
>own.
>
>At Wed, 24 Dec 2008, annie wrote:
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>>infertility specialists and endo specialists have different techniques,
>>or different names for their techniques
>>At Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Kristy wrote:
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>>>The laser is just an instrument used to remove endo and in the hands of
>>>experienced doctors the laser can be used to excise endo.
>>>
>>>Also, the CEC uses the laser to do the excision of endo in their
>>>patients (read this on another endo list, the ERC one I think but I
>>>can't remember right now) instead of the monopolar scissors like Dr.
>>>Redwine uses.
>>>
>>>Some doctors including my own uses a harmonic scalpel. I first heard
>>>about harmonic scalpel from this list about 6 years ago.
>>>
>>>At Wed, 24 Dec 2008, annie wrote:
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>>>>i went back to the infertility doctor yesterday to let her know that i
>>>>am going to get LAPEX surgery from CEC in atlanta to get rid of my endo
>>>>and increase my chances of getting pregnant. the infertility obgyn had
>>>>no clue what LAPEX was. i found this to be a little disturbing becuase
>>>>the hospital i went to was a research hospital. i guess regular
>>>>infertility doctors are not trained on LAPEX they are trained on just
>>>>regular lasering endo. they just laser what they see .there main goal
>>>>is to get me pregnant not worrying about the long term effect of
>>>>hormones and inseminations. and if i chose to do insemination, the endo
>>>>would still be there and it would get worse and i would have to do
>>>>insemination again if i wanted more children. this is why a am putting
>>>>it into the hands of dr. sinervo who is an expert in getting rid of the
>>>>endo- this will be better for me in the long run and increase my
>>>>fertility
>>>
>>>--
>>>=====
>>>Kristy :)
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/sokokl/Kristysstory.html
>>>
>--
>=====
>Kristy :)
>
>http://www.geocities.com/sokokl/Kristysstory.html
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