WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for March, 2009: Re: GYNECOLOGIC: LEEP Post-Op Problems

Re: GYNECOLOGIC: LEEP Post-Op Problems

From: CLS (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:23:31 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG: "Re: GYNECOLOGIC: LEEP Post-Op Problems"

Dr. von Almen, thank you for the answer! Although it should have been on the OR report, I definitely hope it was just my cervix that got stitched. It's very disfigured from the LEEP, so I can believe you, in regards to the sutures. It looks as if somebody stomped through the middle of it with a pair of spiked boots and then cut a landing airstrip through the right side. In the meantime, the outer rim is puffy and swollen, as if the flesh had nowhere to go when it tried to regenerate, so it was squashed outward, like an uneven piecrust.

I'd rather the complications I've had are just from the loop hitting something when it bent or the doctor pulling my leg over too far, although I'd rather he had said something about it. If he actually tore something else and sutured it, my concern is it would make it even harder to get well. There has been an awful lot of cover up, by the ex-doctor and his clinic. I wish I knew how to make people understand I just want to get well, so hiding information won't help me. This has been very discouraging and has, tragically, hurt my ability to trust doctors. Thankfully, I do now have an excellent out-of-network doctor, who makes it a point to educate his patients. But I had to research him, carefully, first.

At Sat, 14 Mar 2009, William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG wrote: >
>CLS
>
>On any cervical conization procedure we will ofter use sutures if there
>is bleeding afterward. We try to stop it with other measures, so I feel
>it is not unheard of that sutures were used...Dr. von Almen
>
>At Sun, 1 Mar 2009, CLS wrote:
>>
>>I had a LEEP done in late fall, 2007, that was badly botched. I have
>>been in chronic pain, since then. The right vaginal side was diagnosed
>>as irritated and pulled, and my pudendal nerve is inflamed.
>>
>>I recently compared the OR report with the itemized bill from the
>>hospital, (I'm trying to make arrangements of finish paying it off.) and
>>I was charged for sutures, in addition to ligasure. I definitely had
>>ligasure, but there is nothing in the OR report about getting stitches.
>>The hospital's billing department said the doctor sent a list of what he
>>did, and that's why I was billed for the sutures.
>>
>>I don't know if the doctor charged me for something he didn't do or if
>>he actually sutured something. How do I find out? If I was
>>inappropriately charged for something that wasn't done, I'd like it
>>removed from the bill. But if he did suture something, I'd like to know
>>what it was. The problem is that he became evasive when I wasn't
>>feeling better and then stopped communicating altogether when I ended up
>>in ER because of the pain. So, I just went to another doctor rather
>>than waste my time.
>>
>>I honestly just want to feel better and nothing more. So, how do I get
>>an answer? It could be the key my doctor and I need to get to the actual
>>cause so that I can finally get well. I feel we're just addressing the
>>symptoms. My goal is to be completely well by July, as I have a
>>backpacking trip planned with a friend who will be visiting from
>>England.
>

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