Re: ????????
From: Matthew (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Apr 15 19:51:19 1999
Amy,
That report sounds like the surgery I am having in two weeks. How did you
feel after words and did it help at all.
Hope everybody is pain free.
Stacey
At 01:10 PM 4/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Kim,
>Sorry to hear you'tr having such a 'pissy' day :)
>The abdo,pelvic, leg pain sounds like good ol'endo. And sounds like me
>all night and today so far; stayed home from work and stayed in bed,
>just couldn't face it. Also been having p problems, bladder pain, etc.
>urine tests had blood and infection, just finished antibiotics and have
>to go do another urinalysis. It feels like my bladder is going to
>explode when I have to go; its like the size of a pea :) and REALLY
>starts to hurt if I hold it at all. Nights seem to be the absolute
>worst, and I wake up in great pain. And, after I finally go (its been
>harder to get the old stream flowing the last couple days) my whole
>bladder and lower abdo area really hurt and ache, sometimes for hours.
>This is going to sound REALLY horrible and selfish and insensitive,
>but......I sure hope I don't have what you have; what you described
>sounds close to torture! I just hope its going to help you! I'm a
>little squeamish about medical procedures today , I just got a copy of
>my lap report yesterday and its really quite gross to read it black and
>white what they did to me. For example, inserting a weighted speculum -
>doesn't that sound yucky? Not as bad as dilating the bladder.
>Take care and hope tomorrow's better for you!
>luv, Amy
>
>Kim wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> Well, I felt bad all day yesterday and this morning was having severe
>> pains in lower abdomen (right at hair line), radiating down sides of
>> vagina to top of inner thighs (which hurt really bad almost constantly),
>> and excruciating lower back pain that radiates down my hips and
>> buttocks.
>>
>> Have been trouble urinating. Have to strain, kinda splatters or
>> trickles out and burns. Urine test - Neg., but had blood in urine. gyn
>> made appt. with urologist on the 29th.
>>
>> Well, i called because of the pain this morn. They had me come right
>> in. gyn examined me, i almost jumped off the table when he touched my
>> bladder. he said i didn't need him, i needed urologist. called and got
>> me in. had to sit 2 and 1/2 hrs. in the waiting room. took lots of
>> x-rays. said that everything looked fine. he had to dialate my
>> bladder. he said that it was growing shut, because of scar tissue.
>> Why????? He said that it could be from past surgeries. I have only had
>> a lap. in 98' and in 94' i had kidney stones and they had to dialate me
>> then. So why would i have scar tissue? it hurt like hell to, what ever
>> he did. i wanted to kick him in the head. he also said that he didn't
>> think that the pain described in first column was being caused by
>> urinary problems.
>>
>> Any way, it hurts really bad to p now, because of the dialation. but he
>> said that it would. but it all comes out in a stream again and i don't
>> have to strain.
>>
>> But, i'm still in pain. Go Figure!!!!!!
>>
>> Any comments, would be greatly appreciated, as always.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Lots of Love
>> Kim
>>
>
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