WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 1999: Re: adhesions 2nd post

Re: adhesions 2nd post

From: Peggy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 27 May 1999 08:06:22 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 22 May 1999, Peggy wrote: >
>I had a lavh in april of 98. My left ovary was attached to the bowel so
>my gyn removed the ovary.Due to the fact that I had been complaing of
>alot of pain on the left side especially during ovulation.1o days after
>the hysterectomy I ended up back in the hospital with an infection.I
>asked if this was something that was caused by anything that I had done
>and my Dr. told me no that he had missed a stitch during surgery
>causing me to have a hematoma .I was feeling pretty good for about 8
>weeks and then I started having alot of pain on the left side again.In
>June I saw the senior partner of the practice for a second opinion and
>he said that it sounded like I had adhesions but did not want to
>speculate and sent me for a C T scan and a barium both of which came
>back showing nothing. This Dr. was going on a prolonged vacation so he
>told me that my regular gyn would be there to take care of things.After
>about 4 weeks I called my gyn and told him that the pain was getting
>really bad so he prescribed a pain medication for me and asked me to
>give it another month to see haw the pain progressed.I waited about 2
>weeks and called hom back to tell him that the medicaton was not helping
>me.Only tp find out that my gyn had left the practice I was with.I
>figured that since I was under his care that I should follow him into
>the new practice he had gone with.But after being pushed off on many
>different Drs. I decide to call the senior partner of the practice I
>was with in the beginning.This was the beginning of Oct. He recommended
>that I have a laporoscopy done and was scheduled in 3 weeks.When he did
>the lap. he discovered that I had a massive amount of adhesions
>throughout the lower abdomin with the bowel being attached the abdominal
>wall on both the left and right side and that there was a big clump of
>adhesions on the left side.Agian I was feeling pretty good for about 8
>weeks and then I started having pain on the left side.The Dr. tried
>steroid injections at the pain trigger site but this did not help.I just
>had another Lap. on april 29 and again the Dr. found a good amount of
>adhesons on the left side. He used an adhesion barrier this time
>(interceed) in hopes that this will help me.Since I have had the surgery
>I have been running a low grade temp. My Dr. sent me for an ultrasound
>and the radiologist said that there was a small collection of fluid at
>the tip of the vagina.and that I had a small cyst in the right ovary.Is
>this normal? I have never heard of a cyst being inside the
>ovary.Unfortunattly my Dr. is on vacation this week so I have not had a
>chance to speak with him.I did however see the nurse practioner and she
>told me that she was confused at what the ultrsound report read.She put
>me on an antibiotic(cipro) I asked her what the conclusion of the
>ultrasound was whether I had an infection or not and she told me that it
>was like grasping at straws that I may have a U T I and she had me do a
>clean catch sample.Is the fluid at the tip of the vagina anything to
>worry about? Any Dr. that could answer this I would appreciate
>it.Thanks

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