Re: Back from Surgery

From: marianne bolding (ojowojo@yahoo.com)
Fri Jul 27 18:36:37 2001


Congratulations...no matter how confusing it is putting all the pieces together...it still sounds like good news to me!!! Did you ever do GI tests to see if you were having a gastroineous problem. Maybe, it's something completely different. This is inspiring for me though, Lisa. Thanks for this update. --- Lisa <anonymous@medispecialty.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone!
>
> Im back. Well first of all thank you all for your
> prayers during my
> surgery.
> Im here with what I guess is good news. When they
> "opened me up" they
> only
> found ONE adhesion around my belly button (which I
> did have alot of
> pain)
> from. They found scaring on my bowel, but only
> minor. So, I guess what
> they are saying is that my last lysis of adhesions
> (Sep 00) worked! The
> problem - Im still in pain and nauseas! What they
> did find was that the
> right ovary ususally has two blood supplies, the
> fallopian
> tube (which it was) and a ligament. The ligament is
> missing which they
> believe is causing the pulling sensation. I was too
> out of it to really
> have any sort
> of conversation with Dr. Palter (this all came from
> my mothers
> conversation
> with him). So In two weeks I have my stitches out
> and then we talk
> further.
> He told my mother that he thought if the ovary seems
> to be the source of
> pain
> then we may need to look at removing it, but he
> wanted to try and save
> it.
> He also said that many people have residual pain for
> lengthy periods of
> time
> after lysis of adhesions, so I could be in pain from
> my last surgery
> still.
> Have any of you ever heard of this?
>
> This has left me with quiet a predicament. This
> pain was identical to
> the
> pain I had before my last surgery - so was the pain
> I was feeling then
> due
> to all the adhesions they removed in September or
> something else? Also,
> the last surgeon said my fallopian tube and ovary
> were "destroyed" so
> why is
> it that Dr. Palter (a reproductive endo) thinks
> differently? Now, like
> I
> said Ive yet to talk to him yet, so I still have
> questions to ask. I am
> concerned as to where the pain is coming from and if
> my reproductive
> organs
> are fine (which I would be greatful for) then why
> did the other surgeon
> tell me for the past 10 months that it would be
> nearly impossible for
> me to have children naturally. It leaves me feeling
> as if a whole new
> can of worms has been opened and now its figuring it
> all out (which i
> thought the surgery would do).
>
> Anyhow, so Im confused and looking forward to
> getting question answered
> from Dr. Palter. To anyone interested in surgery
> at Yale I would
> reccomend
> it. I am in almost no pain compared to my last
> operation here in NY.
> Now yesterday I had 3 injections of morophine and 1
> toradol but am now
> taking
> percocet. After my last operation I couldnt move
> for almost 1 week!!!!
>
> So again thank you for your prayers. I guess I was a
> success story last
> september after all, now why though am I still in
> pain???
>
> Thank you.
> Lisa
>
> --
> Lisa
>
> http://www.adhesions.org/forums/listcmds.htm

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