Pregnancy and adhesions
From: Craig Richardson (mahi007@yahoo.com)
Thu Nov 20 22:15:18 2003
I am posting this in case anyone is ever in dire need of a laproscopy
and finds out they are pregnant. My wife went to Germany for adhesion
surgery and found out the day before surgery she was 3 months pregnant.
I did not realize this until recently, but we were very lucky about the
doctor we went to see for the lysis. He uses a different procedure than
normal laproscopy. Since this was gasless, he was safely able to
perform a laproscopy instead of a laprotomy. I credit him with one,
saving my childs life and two saving my wife from months of recovery and
scars.
What I think is really scary is, if I had picked any other doctor. They
would probably never have told me about gasless laproscopy and instead
either aborted my child or done a laprotomy which probably would have
had the same outcome.
Please email me if you are ever in this situation. Surgery was a breeze
and my wife and baby are doing great.
{editorial note} == regular laparoscopy may also be performed in pregnancy
depending on the circumstances and that gasless is not the only option for
a pregnant woman.