Re: Help!! I don't know what to do!

From: Mary (acbcsrt@kansas.net)
Wed Jul 14 17:42:58 1999


Was the doctor able to give an opinion as to whether your pain was coming from the fibroids or from adhesions? My co-worker who had a hysterectomy for fibroids is 4 years post-hysterectomy now and is pain free. Same story with my sis-in-law. I had my hysterectomy for endometriosis..."severe" endo, the op report says. There was a lot of cutting and scraping during my surgery to other structures in the abdomen to remove the endometriosis. I have wondered if the differences in our outcomes lie in pre-op diagnosis. It seems to me that a lot of people get adhesions are endometriosis women, but maybe I am just more aware of the endo people because we share a common diagnosis. To Helen: You spoil us...now why would any of us do any of our own research on the web when we know that we can just sit back you'll do it for us?! Thanks for your good work!

At Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Jo Ann Sollazo wrote: >
>I have been suffering from pelvic pain for a year and a half now. I
>started when I suffered a incomplete miscarriage which was infected and
>spread. I was in the hospital for about a week. About six months ago
>my doctor tried to scope me and was not able to. He said I was the only
>person he was never able to scope. I have some fibroid tumors on my
>uterus. The pain has gotten worse, I can barely stand at times. He now
>wants to go in and clean up the adhesions and do a Hysterectomy. He
>feels he might as well do a hysterectomy right away because I may need
>one down the road anyway. I am 30 years old and very afriad to lose my
>uterus. I am not planning on having more children, but it scares the
>heck out of me. From everything I have read the adhesions and pain will
>come back anyway, so it really doesn't make since to do anything.
>Could you tell me what the chances are of the pain going away if I have
>the surgery? Do I have to lose my uterus?
>
>Thank you Jo Ann Sollazo


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