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Re: post op complications (one more thought)
From: Claudia Twisdale RN (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:51:32 -0500 (CDT)
What is your hemoglobin?
At Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Kathy wrote:
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>Hello, I have posted before, and I appreciate all the help I have been
>given. I am 17 days post op exploratory laparotomy for ORS. A peice of
>ovary was found near my umblicus.....go figure! I wonder if it was
>"dropped" during laproscopy????? I have had numberous
>surgeries...Csection x2, laproscopies x3, abdominal hysterectomy, and
>now this surgery. I have had a very difficult post op recovery. I had
>an ileus, and 5 days post op fever of unknown origin of 102.2. I was
>readmitted with iv antibiotics for 2 additional days. This surgery I
>had lysis of adhesions (mostly bladder adhesed to bowel). My doctor
>used seprafilm. HE said he wrapped the bladder bigtime. I have been
>having incredible bladder spasms since surgery. Now I always get post
>op bladder spasms including after my first csection. However, they
>usually are gone by now. My incision since it was used so much is just
>now almost closed although no infection. I am also so very weak. If I
>walk to much I am exhausted and my incision hurts and I have more
>bladder spasms. I am afebrile, on antibiotics. I just should not have
>this much discomfort this far post op. I am a go-getter with no energy.
>My doc wonders if it is the seprafilm causing all of this. This surgery
>should not have been as hard to recover from as my abdominal
>hysterectomy, but it is sooo much harder. Doc have any ideas or ever
>had trouble with seprafilm.
>Thank you,
>Kathy
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