WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2001: Re: Question about Perganol (Drs. Please)

Re: Question about Perganol (Drs. Please)

From: M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:08:10 -0600 (CST)

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At Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Peggy wrote: >
>Good afternoon Drs.,
>I have a very complicated case , I will try to make it as brief as
>possible.
>LAVH and LSO 4/98 for Heavy bleeding and pelvic pain
>in lower left quadrant,
>Laporoscopy -11/98 Severe Adhesions
>Laporoscopy-4/99 Severe Adhesions
>Laporoscopy RSO 11/99 No adhesions Diagnosed with endo. on lower bowel
>and in the cul de sac , but Dr. did not remove it, instead chose to
>leave it and with hold HRT for 3 months to allow endo to die off.
>Pain still perstists, I have had 2 colonoscopies, a cystoscopy, an MRI a
>couple of CT scans, several ultrasounds.Did Lupron 3/99 for 4 months
>first 3 months were hell but then all symptoms stopped, levels were
>checked and it was found that I was producing estogen. I am currently
>doing an aromatase inhibitor treatment using a medication called
>Arimidex. AT first it was working wonderfully , I started the treatment
>in September 2000 and by Nov. I was off all pain medications, But
>around Christmas the pain started to return . My Dr. had been checking
>my levels all along and as the estradiol increased so did the pain. I
>am now on a double dose of the Arimidex and right away my levels went
>from 143 down to below 15 but 2 weeks later they were retested and they
>were up to 175!
>
>My Dr. has discussed my case with a Dr. from Yale and it was suggested
>that possibly using perganol to find an ovarian remnant. My question
>is. If this is the course we take, Once I am on the perganol how long
>would it be before the remnant could be located if there is one?

within a couple of weeks -- the pergonal is used to stimulate your ovaries to produce follicles that could be seen on ultraosund, thereby locating the ovarian remanat and allowing it to be removed. Pregonal is a drug used to stimulate multiple ovualtion in infertility treatments

Sorry >this was so long and thank you for your time
>Peggy

-- M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG South Lake Tahoe, CA

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