Can you talk to the surgeon? Or do you just have the post-op report? Was your surgery a few days ago or a few months ago? If you can contact surgeon #2 then you can ask -- "Did those look like old adhesions or 2-week-old adhesions?" If it was recent enough then the surgeon might remember...
cathy :-)
At Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Caroline Abinsay wrote:
>
>Hello. I just came across this website, and have been following it for
>a couple of days. I wanted to ask somene, anyone if they think that a
>signifcant amount of adhesions can form in as little as 14 days. Here
>is the scenario... I went for Laparoscopy performed by my regular
>GYN..On the operative report it states that "there were no significant
>adhesions" but moderate endometriosis. well the Doctor gave me bad news
>that I wont go into for now, but was required to under go TAH/BSO 13
>days later. On that operative report (performed by GYN/ONC) it states
>that "there were adhesions present from omentum to anterior abdomimal
>wall" and also stated that there were "exstensive adhesions on the
>sigmiod to the left..." it also says the sugeon spent 45 minutes of
>operating time to get rid of adhesions. I am wondering if anyone thinks
>that it is conceivable for "extensive adhesions" to form so quickly, or
>the 1st Doctor didnt know what he was looking at.
>Thank You
>Caroline Abinsay