Re: A hysterectomy 'will not' cure endometriosis!!

From: Cindy Glover-Newberry (cindyg@s3blaw.com)
Thu Jun 5 13:27:31 2003

I have a daughter that will be 30 years old this October and she has had a tremendous amount of abdominal pain and has already had her gall bladder removed because they thought that was part of her problem. She was dignosed with a servere case of endometriosis a couple of years ago, but the operation has not prevented her pain. She has had a colonoscopy and other screenings, but still seems to be having the same servere pain in the same area. I was wandering if I could get your input on her situation and what you think her next step should be. She was told also by her OB/GYN doctor that it was likely the endometriosis would return. She is having a CT scan today to see if they can detect anything different. Please give me your input on this. Thank you.

At Sat, 17 Aug 2002, melissa wrote: >
>At Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Helen Dynda wrote:
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>>Many women are told that a hysterectomy " will cure" endometriosis . This is incorrect!! A hysterectomy will NOT cure endometriosis!! All a hysterectomy will do is create more problems -- such as:
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>>1.) inability to have children,
>>2.) prolapse ( displacement ) of other body organs -- happens when reproductive organs are removed.
>>3.) a hysterectomy WILL cause adhesions to form!!!
>>
>>A doctor, who tells a woman that a hysterectomy will cure endometriosis, does not have up-to-date knowledge about endometriosis!! Just because a doctor is an Ob/Gyn does NOT make him or her an authority on endometriosis!! Gynecologist take special training in order to help women, who have endometriosis. They do not deliver babies! Their practice is limited to endometriosis!!
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>>The best endometriosis specialists ( Dr. Reich is one of the best! ) do NOT believe in the use of drugs -- such as Lupron, etc. They believe that a woman has the "best chance" to be helped by perfoming a procedure known as "excision surgery." The best endometriosis specialists believe that "excision surgery" is the best and most successful way to remove "every trace" -- especially all microscopic traces -- of endometriosis; and they actually have the endometrial tissue examined by a pathologist - while the patient is still in the operating room!
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>>Excision of every trace of endometriosis gives a woman an excellent chance to triumph over endometriosis. Unless "every trace" of endometriosis is removed, there is a good chance that the endometrial implants will return and...the implants will bleed and cause more scarring!! So nothing has been gained!!
>
>I just read this and am very concerned. I had a radical hysterectomy
>for endometriosis 1 and a half years ago. I have had a few episodes of
>pain after the hysterectomy and did not attribute it to anything. I
>just spent three days in the hospital with severe abdominal pain for
>which the doctors could not find a single thing to relate it too. I am
>taking estratest. I am looking for as much info as I can because I am
>wondering if the endometriosis has returned on other organs. I did not
>know this was possible. My doctor is an endo specialist and I thought
>he was wonderful...but he did not tell me this. Please tell me if you
>have any info...if the endo can be back even in a small form and what
>other women do about this. Thank you!

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