ENDO Messages for August, 1998: Re: [endo on utreine artery/lap up date...Terry

Re: [endo on utreine artery/lap up date...Terry

From: Ronna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Aug 23 12:55:57 1998

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At 23 Aug 98, terry smith wrote: >
>anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>Well, it was a bad time! My surgery was over 2 1/2 hours.....After it
>was
>over, doctor told my husband, the endo was involing the uterine artey,
>so bad,
>it was causing the artery to be exposed and swollen. He could not
>remove
>endo form it ,because if it was nicked in any way , I could bleed very
>badly
> being it was an artery.....
> There was fresh endo on the right ovary, culdsesac area
> uterus,filmy adhesions on left and right side.
>I had every color endo that could be.....At least my doctor knows endo
>can
> be all different colors!Saw the pictures myself....
>I arrived at hopital at 6 am......surgery started at 7:45am...... I was
>a wreck
>until they put me out! I was treated with great care and understanding,
>so it
>helped alot. Anesthesiologist was wonderful, he gave me some wonderful
> "cocktails".,and off to dream land i went!
>My gyn told me he would never do a hernia and endo surgery again
>together......(thanks for telling me afterwards!)I got out of surgery at
>10:30amI
>had some complications, my bloodpressure was real low after surgery so
>they
>kept me in recovery for 4 hours. they would not allow my husband to be
>with
>me at all.the pain was unbeleiveable!I got the pain meds every 30 mins
>through the IV, it just wasnt lasting.After the recovery room allowed me
>to go
>to the step down recovery room, I got 2 perocert to help ease the pain.
>I went
>to bathroom to 'pee" 2x,but not alot was coming out. The sutures were
>bleeding too. I have 5 punctue wounds.....No one (nurses) seemed that
>concerned.They just put some more gauze over the sites.... No one even
>seemed too concerned about my peeing not much urine either!They released
> me, at 4pm, and told me to go home and "rest".
>At 7 pm, I was having spasms, that seemed not right! I couldnt pee at
>all, and
>my bladder ,felt like it was going to bust!So my husband called the
>doctor,to
>make him aware..... He told him to take me back to hospital(ER) , so
>they
>could put a foley catheter in! I was so upset,tried and in so much
>pain.....(why
> do hosptals not keep surgical pts!
>It is so wrong to release anyone who has any kind of surgery!) so now we
>get
>to hospital, and they put that horrible foley cath in..... I saw stars
>hit me when
> the doctor placed that in the utherer.
>OH MY ! did that hurt ! On top of all the other pain! But it finaly
>helped my
> bladder stop having spasms......
>The medical resident was going to admit me at (now it was 11:00pm) but
>she
>talked with my gyn, who felt I could go home with the foley and i would
>be
>Ok until the morning when I would have to see him in his office.My
>husband
>now had to take another day off from work, to take me to the doctor in
>am.
>Doctor removed the foley in his office at about 11;30 am, and it hurt
>just as
>much taking it out!He gave me an antibotic to take ,just in case I would
>have
> any urniary infection. (good thinking!)
>Went home and slept all day , at 5pm my doctor did call me to see if I
>peed!
>He gets a few points for being conerned!( he really was!)I finally peed
>on my
> own at 6pm yesterday.....
>Today I feel so much better. I havent even taken any pain pills. Just
>2
>toradols, seem to be enough today. My tummy looks like a tuck hit me
>about
>10 times!!!!I dread when doc removes the sutrues on tues.....I didnt
>have
>sutures in all the punctures wounds last time,just in the belly button.
>When I saw my doc thurs (yesterday), when he removed the foley, he told
>me
>my options on what was ahead for me.....He told me, if I did nothing,
>more
>surgery, would definatley be in my future. Or I could try lupron again,
>or have
>a hsyterecomy to end this . His biggest concern with me, was the utrine
>artey
>being more involve at this lap....I would only consider the hyst, with
>him
>leaving in my good ovary , which would be the left one...... He
>beleives in
>taking everything out! But he would listen to my conerns and leave me my
>ovary so i could make my natural hormones.And if needed futher down the
>"road' I could always remove the left ovary via laparoscopy. I know
>alot of
>you have removed both ovaries removed and alot of you have kept at least
>one. I guess that is a decsion that can be made by the me.But I would
>like to
>hear from all of you what your thoughts are on all of this that I have
>written.....Sorry for the long story.I really couldnt make it any
>shorter!(LOL)
> Hope all of you have been well
>
>--
>Ronna
>
>Ronna:
>
>hope you are feeling somewhat better, sorry about the trouble you had at your
>last lapo.
>about your question on the hysterectomy i am 2 1/2 weeks post op from mine and
>had everything removed (i had my left ovary removed in nov 94, also was told
>the artery on my uterus was hit pretty bad but he couldn't do anything because
>i did not want a hysterectomy, i have since had two great boys) so far i feel
>really good i am under the belief that as long as we are producing our own
>hormones we will continue with the endo. which i can't see getting a
>hysterectomy and then still having the pain. i am also trying to stay away
>from hrt as long as possible for two reasons first i am still nursing my 4
>month old and estragin dries up the milk and second i want to make sure there
>were no small undetected implants left in me that would grow given the chance.
>i would not recommend a hysterectomy to any one who is not 100dr respected
>that. i had my second son on april 23 this year, on june 29 i scheduled my
>hyst for aug 5 and was really looking forward to this day on july 23 i was
>diagnosed with 4 large kidney stones and told i couldn't have my hyst till
>they were gone (i got depressed about this) so on july 28 i had them blasted
>and on aug 4th my urologist told me i could have my hyst (he'd never seen any
>one as angsish as i was to have a hyst) so on aug 5th i had it with a 3 nite
>hospital stay i feel really good and hope to continue this way, and i really
>do believe it's in the attitude.
>good luck with whatever you choose
>
>terry
>

Ronna

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