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Hi Everyone,

Loumac here, and I'm still waiting for the surgery date.  My appt. with the other doctor is this next Tuesday 3/28.  Both of the surg. schedulers said it will probably be sometime mid April.  Here's my question:  with the surgery date being out so far, does that mean that they are not suspicious of OC?  Is this pretty standard?  Is there anyone out there that had to wait a long time for surgery and then find out that the alien on the ovary was cancerous?  I'm so incredibly uncomfortable!  My belly is swollen, my low back/leg hurts, I have, for lack of a better way to describe it, cramps...yet I have no uterus, just ovaries/fallopian tubes.

By the way, the 'other" doctor is a plastic surgeon that is going to remove all scar tissue (from 2 C-sections, hysterectomy and appendectomy) and do a scar revision.  Oh, and a little lipo for good measure!)

WOuld love to hear from ya'll,
Loumac

Loumac · Answer

I have tried getting through to my doctor about my pain(s), and the girl in the office just says, "I'll make sure that she gets the messege"...and then no call.  That is so rude and I should change docs, but then I'll have to go through all of the office visits again.  Patience IS NOT MY virtue right now, because I have NO PATIENCE!  Just pain, worried sick to my stomach and wondering if I'm a 1 percenter!! (Probably not)

Sheesh.  OK - let me whine....constipated, can't eat, bloated, crampy, back hurts, leg hurts, headaches BIG time....OK, thanks for letting me fuss and complain....

Loumac the BABY

onee · Answer

Hi. I'm new. I totally know where you are coming from with this waiting thing. I was diagnosed last August with a fibroid in my uterus and two cysts. Since then I have been bounced from one doc to another. Finally had my consultation with the surgeon March 6th and was told it will probably be mid-may before my surgery!! I too am in pain and my abdomen is huge. He is going to remove the fibroid vaginally, do an ablation and then the laparscope to find out what else is going on. Does this sound like a normal course of action to any of you?

AnotherKatie · Answer

If it makes you feel any better, I started in late December complaining of pain in my ovary, waited a week for the US, waited two weeks for the specialist and waited two months for the surgery. Both the GP and the gyn looked at the US and said "It is not cancer". Still, I couldn't stand the waiting. After the surgery I asked "Was it all benign?" He said "You have to wait for the biopsy results". HUH? Bit of a change of tune, but they were benign (thank you God). 
From what I can gather, seems to me that if they are suspicious they speed it up. 
Maybe they are trying to punish you for inconveniencing two prima donas at once... Oh did I say that? Doctors are only human too, I forgot, shucks, sorry.
You did tell him about all your symptoms, right? (And he wasn't reading something or ignoring you at the time)

milashka · Answer

Is a gyn oncologist doing your surgery? Mine got me into surgery within 5 days but then again, I was a pretty sure case - although they do not know until they go in.

April sounds a little long to me but maybe the delay is because they have to schedule to surgeons?

Gatsby · Answer

Perhaps, that is just the earliest that they can schedule the or.  I would think that since they are not in that mad rush, they must feel confident that it is not ovca.  Lucky you and the lipo!  I swear it should be standard procedure.  You are in my thoughts and prayers.  Godspeed
~Tascha

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