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help!!! don't agree w/drFrom: Angie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu Jan 21 11:37:16 1999
Help!!! I desperately need some advice from all of you endo veterans out there! I finally took all of your advice and really, really researched this subject. I go in for my 1st laparascopy 1/28 - next Thursday after a long time of chronic and unexplained pain. My doctor is going to use the laparascopy to just "Look and see" what's going on - then insists on treating w/ hormones or BCP... I asked if while he was already doing the lap surgery, if he wouldn't consider just removing the endo he finds. He says he never does this on women my age who want to still have children (I am 25.) He says the endo usually lies to close or on main veins and the ureter and other organs, and that he would have to remove some of my reproductive organs if I wanted this type of surgery. Is this true? Are drugs my only alternative at this point if he does indeed find endo? Are there no surgery procedures he could do w/ out harming my ability to try to conceive? HELP! My husband went out and bought me the Endometriosis Sourcebook last night - (isn't he wonderful??) I plan on attacking that this afternoon, but thought I would post this to see what you all thought. I finally got up enough nerve to call my doctor last evening, and he actually laughed at me and told me I was worrying for nothing... this is all very "normal and routine." I hate that we have been raised to not question those in higher positions, such as docotors, and that my need to be nice and not hurt anyone's feelings may put my own health on the back burner. I actually felt like I needed to be careful what I asked him because I didn't want him to feel like he needed to defend his procedures on doing things. Angie
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