Re: 'Second Part' Please read...
From: Dr. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 14 Sep 2002 10:51:29 -0500 (CDT)
Well, the one stop solution seems to be reconstrucvtive surgery..There's
really no way of telling until it is done.
At Sat, 14 Sep 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>I've seen 2 doctors about this and i'm still in the dark :(. My first
>obgyn gave me a episiotomy revision which was a 4th degree cut at 6
>months post, he also fixed a small pin sized fistula AND a very painful
>anal fissure I thank him every day for that Okay so now he tells me my
>perineum is very thin and it looks good but it don't? I'm so lost on
>what's going on with my body and trust me I have asked all these
>questions to them yet i'm still blank..I had these problems before my
>revision by the way. My perineum is VERY painful to the touch and the
>right side of my hymenal ring is so painful that sex is out of the
>question for us and that is really hurting my "pride" as a woman. We
>already tried a block for my pain but it went away the same day. Okay
>so now the second doctor who is a specialist tells me I only have 2
>options, stay in pain the rest of my life or he can take the fat pad
>from my labia and graft it around my hymen ring and remove the scar
>tissue to provide a new blood source. Then he said it probably would
>still be some what painful if it works at all. How do you feel about
>this option. What would you do if you had a case like this? I know
>telling this on a message board is a lot different than talking with
>your doctor but like i said for 9 months i've been doing that with 2 of
>them and I still feel like i have not one clue why this is going on. Am
>I hopeless?
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John Essien, M.D. SOCOG
Camaguey, Cuba; Basseterre, St. Kitts
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