Two weeks ago I had my second lap surgery to remove the adhesions and cysts. This time my RE and a senior RE/surgeon worked on me.
It's possible that not only may your doctor not have had the expertise/experience to do your hysterectomy, but it could have been something stupid like my situation where the OR wasn't booked long enough. Now I wonder how many more adhesions will grow now that I've had two surgeries, (non prior to this).
At Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Julie DeStefano wrote:
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>I never thought this was ever possible let alone that it would happen to
>me and I am thankful that I am not alone it all this. People do think I
>am crazy or making it up when I talk about the pain I feel on a daily
>basis.
>
>I had a C-Section in 1992, and two natural births after that. So it has
>been 16 years that they have been growing. I am now 38, I had been
>having what felt like menstral cramps since May of 2008. The first
>doctor I went to did a pelvic exam, said I dont see anything or feel
>anything that would be causing your pain. I wanted to kick him in his
>head when he was down there. He ordered a CT Scan and said I needed a
>second opinion. I went to another dr and a he ordered an ultra sound
>with out performing any exam, and found out I had cysts and masses on
>both of my ovaries and decided that they needed to come out. I was just
>going to have my tubes tied at the same time, since we decided not to
>have any more kids and my uterus cauterized to help with my menstral
>cycles.
>
>I scheduled 2 weeks off work and went in for the laproscopy, July 23rd.
>Dr. said it should be a piece of cake, the cysts might take a little
>longer but there shouldnt be any problems. I went under and then I woke
>from surgery to find out my doctor went in with the scope and found that
>I had adhesions. He tied the tubes, closed incision and did the
>cauterizing and left me with the cysts inside.
>
>He told my husband I had to have a hysterectomy and walked away. I went
>to the hospital 4 days later to get a copy of my consent form to
>understand why he just didnt do the hysterectomy while I was under the
>anesthesia the first time. (I wanted to make sure the form gave him the
>right to do that). They gave me a copy of the dr's notes and that is
>how I found out I had adhesions. It has been 1-1/2 weeks since the
>laproscopy and the doctor still has not called to say anything to me
>about it. Now I am going to have to be put to sleep again, take even
>more time off work and go thru all that pain again. I am still having
>pain in my left side and work is going to be worse now since I have so
>much lifting to do and where he did the laproscopy gets irritated so
>easily.
>
>I am going to the hospital to confront the administrators regarding this
>crap. I am so irritated that he didnt take care of it all while he had
>me under. It showed how incompetent he was as a doctor before he cut me
>open and had I known anything about him like this, he wouldnt have layed
>one hand on me. In one way I am thankful that if he didnt know what he
>was doing he didnt just start hacking and screw things up but he should
>have the education to know that this could have been a possible
>scenario.
>
>I too live in Washington state (Spanaway) and am looking for a doctor
>with Group Health to perform the new surgery. So please email me if you
>know of one.
>
>--
>Good luck to you all, and relief from the pain;
>
>Julie D.
>Spanaway, WA
>