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had ovary, part of tube and cyst out 3 weeks ago. having a lot of post op issues i need help
wow i dont know where to start so please bear with me I am in wicked pain and my spelling is gonna stink.. I am 31 yrs old and for almost 10 ten yrs-after the birth of my son- i have had fibro, myofascial pain sydrome and chronic mirgraines. recentaly added arthrist to the list that is both in my hands and back. so i deal with a lot of pain every day, since i do its easy to tell what pain is what, so finding a doctor that will take me seroiusly is a joke, thank gods my family doctor knows me and trusts me or we would have never found this.
for about a year now I had been dealing with huge back pain-to the point at times i cant even dress myself. it satrted last jume while my hubsand was at air force tec school in mississippi and we live in ny- in a nut shell i have 2 kids, a home and a lot of animals that i took care of alone for 7 months. when my back got really bad we tried everything(thank gods for my family doctor and my parents or i would be wow i dont know where).. i did pt for weeks, a pain clinic for months, even a spinal clinic.. all of which was a huge joke-my pain only got tons worse, no one but my family doctor would even listen to me, or run any testing at all.. the most i got was the pain clinic did 2 sij inejectons in my low spine- which took most of my low back pain-well i couldnt feel anything in that area for about 5 months..
i went to my ob to get a pap done wow last year and told him my periods where wow just werid-when it first came it would hit with such force bleeding would run right down my legs, i would go threw 1-2 pads every 3 hours etc.. he said no reason to worry, so i bought it till this year. about 3 months ago i started clotting huge-like the size of my fist-which during my pap this year he again said not to worry and pap came back clean. well i talked with my family doctor after these huge clots just kept coming and she sent me to have a ultra sound down. they found a 7 cm cyst on my right ovary.. went right to the ob-which he was so nice and ran a cancer blood test that day b/c cyst wasnt clear looking. a week later it came back 15 points above normal... he couldnt belivie i wasnt in there months ago with huge amounts of pain, any normal person would have been dieing..
well 3 weeks ago monday(i talked them into doing surgery 3 weeks early b/c my husband is going back to base for 2 weeks and i will be alone with two kids) i had a the lapo surgery sorry- the one i didnt have to get opened up for. it took them over 3 hours to do my surgery, my hubsand was in tears thinking i had cancer and they had to take everything out b.c normally ob said i would be out in less than 30 mints..
i did come back cancer free thank gods-but the cyst had grown to over 10 cm just in those 3 weeks- so it got almost 3 cms bigger. i ended up having my left ovary out, part of the tube, and the cyst removed. the cyst was also hooked to my pevlis. it took 3 hours b/c i had so much scar tissue from past surgeries he couldnt see my ovary..i ended up having very bad Endometriomas in the left ovary and they couldnt save it but the right one looked clean. he did talk with my family about 3 1/2 hours after i went in and only to say i had Endometriomas, i had the left ovary removed, i was cancer free.
we didnt see him or any ob after my surgery or when i was released 3 hours after my surgery was done. i seen a nurse who gave me a list of things not to do and what was normal post op issues to call for. i have had many sugeries and always had some kind of doctor check me out and talks to me before leaving the hosptial. so all the above issues i had no idea about till my post ob apt, like how big cyst was, why it took 3 hours, that i had part of my tube removed etc..
since surgery i am so bloated i look like i am 9 months preggers, i cant wear any jeans at all or wasted pants, or underwear. it took me almost a week to move my bowels, or to have any gas let out. i have baisically been living in pjs..i had had huge pain all over my left side, to the point i am crying myself to sleep every night, when i can sleep-i have to sleep with 1-2 pillows under my left side. i cant cough, pee, lay down, laugh or do much walking with out wanting to cry. he told me this should have gone away(my post op apt was 2 weeks ago) and i should be fine with in days and did a ua test. well everything came back clean, on that.
well wesnday the ob called my hubby and me both said 2 ua came back clean and I should be fine. he acted very annyoyed that we where calling so much, but he never us calls back. he said he wont offer me any antbotics till he sees me, but they gave me only one chocie for a apt, which was a hour later with a ob i didnt know. well i have two kids and couldnt get a sitter. so we called my family doctor and got in on friday...
the ob office was then calling me saying well we can get you in right after you see your family doctor, so see her first and let us know. so i go and my family doctor flipped. for many reasons-i am so huge with bloating, my bowels are not moving right, she says they are way to quite, when she pressed lightly i was in complete tears..she wants me to go get 4 different xrays and two different ultrasounds on thursday. she also re did a ua test just in case.. i now am on pain meds every 4 hours till my pain is under control-she says she wants me on them for at least 1-2 weeks steady..i asked her if i should still go to my apt with the ob and she told me its up to me but she is covering every test she can think of. one thing she thinks maybe happening is my scar tissue is swelling up so bad its pressing on my colon and maybe other organs.. she said it maybe be i am ok-but she was leaning more towards something it up.. so we called and cancled the ob apt and just said family doctor is willing to take care of me.
well i get home just walked threw the door and ob office is calling me. they are now telling me i have a strep infection in my urine and I need meds for it now. i did the 2 ua test over a week ago. i just flipped out- i told her the ob just called me 2 days ago telling my hubby and I both my ua test was clean and he was not going to put me on anything. she asked me why i went to my family doctor-so i layed it on the line, one u told me to, told her all the tests i was having run and the sec flipped. omg we never knew you where having all these issues wendy hun. OMG mm yes you did its all in my files b.c we have been calling for 2 weeks to have me seen, and even told him on the phone and during post op apt about this. then she changed her story and i just had a border line strep infection so she guesses thats why the ob said i didnt have one. she still wanted to call me in meds- which i said no- my family doc redid a ua test today and will let me know if i had a infection by monday. i called the family doc office and let them know what was going on.
well since yesterday pain is so much worse, which ***** bc it was my 11th wedding ann. now is down my legs and also getting wicked right shoulder pains on top of the ones in my gut. just got my period and i am going threw a super pad or tampon every 1-2 hours and having huge clots. the ob said my perios would be normal from now one, so we are lost. we are calling family doc in the am asking if i can just go to the er. my huband leaves for 2 weeks on thursday when my tests are bening done and the pain is just overbearing. i am not sure if the er can run the xrays and ultrasounds but i am thinking they can. that way if something is wrong we will know that day and something can be done before he leaves. we both just dont want me home alone with 2 kids and something going very wrong...
anyone have these things happen?? should i just go to the er or wait till thursday for the tests?? i am very scared, heck we both are... sorry it was so long, you all might agree i am mental lol
for about a year now I had been dealing with huge back pain-to the point at times i cant even dress myself. it satrted last jume while my hubsand was at air force tec school in mississippi and we live in ny- in a nut shell i have 2 kids, a home and a lot of animals that i took care of alone for 7 months. when my back got really bad we tried everything(thank gods for my family doctor and my parents or i would be wow i dont know where).. i did pt for weeks, a pain clinic for months, even a spinal clinic.. all of which was a huge joke-my pain only got tons worse, no one but my family doctor would even listen to me, or run any testing at all.. the most i got was the pain clinic did 2 sij inejectons in my low spine- which took most of my low back pain-well i couldnt feel anything in that area for about 5 months..
i went to my ob to get a pap done wow last year and told him my periods where wow just werid-when it first came it would hit with such force bleeding would run right down my legs, i would go threw 1-2 pads every 3 hours etc.. he said no reason to worry, so i bought it till this year. about 3 months ago i started clotting huge-like the size of my fist-which during my pap this year he again said not to worry and pap came back clean. well i talked with my family doctor after these huge clots just kept coming and she sent me to have a ultra sound down. they found a 7 cm cyst on my right ovary.. went right to the ob-which he was so nice and ran a cancer blood test that day b/c cyst wasnt clear looking. a week later it came back 15 points above normal... he couldnt belivie i wasnt in there months ago with huge amounts of pain, any normal person would have been dieing..
well 3 weeks ago monday(i talked them into doing surgery 3 weeks early b/c my husband is going back to base for 2 weeks and i will be alone with two kids) i had a the lapo surgery sorry- the one i didnt have to get opened up for. it took them over 3 hours to do my surgery, my hubsand was in tears thinking i had cancer and they had to take everything out b.c normally ob said i would be out in less than 30 mints..
i did come back cancer free thank gods-but the cyst had grown to over 10 cm just in those 3 weeks- so it got almost 3 cms bigger. i ended up having my left ovary out, part of the tube, and the cyst removed. the cyst was also hooked to my pevlis. it took 3 hours b/c i had so much scar tissue from past surgeries he couldnt see my ovary..i ended up having very bad Endometriomas in the left ovary and they couldnt save it but the right one looked clean. he did talk with my family about 3 1/2 hours after i went in and only to say i had Endometriomas, i had the left ovary removed, i was cancer free.
we didnt see him or any ob after my surgery or when i was released 3 hours after my surgery was done. i seen a nurse who gave me a list of things not to do and what was normal post op issues to call for. i have had many sugeries and always had some kind of doctor check me out and talks to me before leaving the hosptial. so all the above issues i had no idea about till my post ob apt, like how big cyst was, why it took 3 hours, that i had part of my tube removed etc..
since surgery i am so bloated i look like i am 9 months preggers, i cant wear any jeans at all or wasted pants, or underwear. it took me almost a week to move my bowels, or to have any gas let out. i have baisically been living in pjs..i had had huge pain all over my left side, to the point i am crying myself to sleep every night, when i can sleep-i have to sleep with 1-2 pillows under my left side. i cant cough, pee, lay down, laugh or do much walking with out wanting to cry. he told me this should have gone away(my post op apt was 2 weeks ago) and i should be fine with in days and did a ua test. well everything came back clean, on that.
well wesnday the ob called my hubby and me both said 2 ua came back clean and I should be fine. he acted very annyoyed that we where calling so much, but he never us calls back. he said he wont offer me any antbotics till he sees me, but they gave me only one chocie for a apt, which was a hour later with a ob i didnt know. well i have two kids and couldnt get a sitter. so we called my family doctor and got in on friday...
the ob office was then calling me saying well we can get you in right after you see your family doctor, so see her first and let us know. so i go and my family doctor flipped. for many reasons-i am so huge with bloating, my bowels are not moving right, she says they are way to quite, when she pressed lightly i was in complete tears..she wants me to go get 4 different xrays and two different ultrasounds on thursday. she also re did a ua test just in case.. i now am on pain meds every 4 hours till my pain is under control-she says she wants me on them for at least 1-2 weeks steady..i asked her if i should still go to my apt with the ob and she told me its up to me but she is covering every test she can think of. one thing she thinks maybe happening is my scar tissue is swelling up so bad its pressing on my colon and maybe other organs.. she said it maybe be i am ok-but she was leaning more towards something it up.. so we called and cancled the ob apt and just said family doctor is willing to take care of me.
well i get home just walked threw the door and ob office is calling me. they are now telling me i have a strep infection in my urine and I need meds for it now. i did the 2 ua test over a week ago. i just flipped out- i told her the ob just called me 2 days ago telling my hubby and I both my ua test was clean and he was not going to put me on anything. she asked me why i went to my family doctor-so i layed it on the line, one u told me to, told her all the tests i was having run and the sec flipped. omg we never knew you where having all these issues wendy hun. OMG mm yes you did its all in my files b.c we have been calling for 2 weeks to have me seen, and even told him on the phone and during post op apt about this. then she changed her story and i just had a border line strep infection so she guesses thats why the ob said i didnt have one. she still wanted to call me in meds- which i said no- my family doc redid a ua test today and will let me know if i had a infection by monday. i called the family doc office and let them know what was going on.
well since yesterday pain is so much worse, which ***** bc it was my 11th wedding ann. now is down my legs and also getting wicked right shoulder pains on top of the ones in my gut. just got my period and i am going threw a super pad or tampon every 1-2 hours and having huge clots. the ob said my perios would be normal from now one, so we are lost. we are calling family doc in the am asking if i can just go to the er. my huband leaves for 2 weeks on thursday when my tests are bening done and the pain is just overbearing. i am not sure if the er can run the xrays and ultrasounds but i am thinking they can. that way if something is wrong we will know that day and something can be done before he leaves. we both just dont want me home alone with 2 kids and something going very wrong...
anyone have these things happen?? should i just go to the er or wait till thursday for the tests?? i am very scared, heck we both are... sorry it was so long, you all might agree i am mental lol
I am so sorry you are going through all of that pain. I am 42 & just had my left ovary taken out 3 weeks ago because of a chocolate cyst in it, or on it, or however they say. Apparently it had adhered itself to my uterus, and they found some endometriosis lesions, or adhesions, on my bowels and removed them. I was under the impression i wouldn't be in very much pain, but here it is 3 weeks and i'm still in pain. i went to the emergency room a few days back because of the pain, theydid a CT scan and said everything looks ok, they saw some metal sutures, so im kindamad about them being in there, i have a appt. with my gyno who did the surgery in a couple days and will talk to her about the sutures and the pain still having, not hungry ever, my bowels just started moving and not painfully thank goodness, cant hardly urinate though, pain in left back side and left front and some around belly buttun area, my stomach was all black 'n blue after surgery but looks better now, the bloatedness is slowly going down, so i'm like you, living in PJs and sweatpants. i am on an antibiotic for 20 days cuz i went to see my primary care physican a few days before i went to the ER, i complained of my face breaking out and possibly having a sinus infection, my blood tests from ER did show a possible infection going on, said both my kidneys show hydronephrosis and ureters dialated, and a 1mm calcxy, not blocking anyting though, i had ureter surgery bladder surgery last year and am on flomax so went to see my urologist today and he looked at the ER report and checked me over and said give it some more time for everythig to calm down, now i can't wait to go see my gyno lady in a couple days to find out what EXACTLY she did to me, cuz she didn't go talk to my family or me after the 2 hour surgery, very rude of her, sorry if all of the above is confusing, i'm a little out of it, take care, god bless to all,
I think ob really messed up your case. When I was discharged from hospital they gave me prescription of Docusate Sodium (stool softener). I took pills for one day only. No problems with my incession.
Try to walk after 10-15mins.
Here is link on Intestinal Obstruction, I hope this will help.
http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/intestinal-obstruction-dictionary.htm
I am praying for you.
Try to walk after 10-15mins.
Here is link on Intestinal Obstruction, I hope this will help.
http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/intestinal-obstruction-dictionary.htm
I am praying for you.
hopefully this post will say here and not go to never never land
the cat scan showed nothing beside me being blocked up and the fluid sack. the ob said there is nothing he can do for me and the fluid sack will go away in time. even though i told him i have sleep more than 4 hours a night in a month now.. the lump at the incession site looks like a nob it gets so big with the bloating at night.
my family doctor called me, i have to go on this fiber drink for a week to unblock me. even though i am having bowel movements..she says i can still go and be blocked and was afraid if i didnt get all cleaned out i could have an abustruction..she was very upset that the ob didnt put me on something for this since it shows on my cat scan.. she also gave me this numbing patch to where over my incession(which is healed on the outside) which would help with the pain so i can sleep....
so plan is pray for the best and hope this works..if not monday we are making a new plan from there..
the cat scan showed nothing beside me being blocked up and the fluid sack. the ob said there is nothing he can do for me and the fluid sack will go away in time. even though i told him i have sleep more than 4 hours a night in a month now.. the lump at the incession site looks like a nob it gets so big with the bloating at night.
my family doctor called me, i have to go on this fiber drink for a week to unblock me. even though i am having bowel movements..she says i can still go and be blocked and was afraid if i didnt get all cleaned out i could have an abustruction..she was very upset that the ob didnt put me on something for this since it shows on my cat scan.. she also gave me this numbing patch to where over my incession(which is healed on the outside) which would help with the pain so i can sleep....
so plan is pray for the best and hope this works..if not monday we are making a new plan from there..
the ob tried to drain the fluid sack today a few different time. i didnt count how many needles. but he got very little out-just some blood...
so i get a cat scan tommrow am..
hubby has to go on base for 2 weeks lol so rest when i can but i have the house pets and kids to take care of as well.
so i get a cat scan tommrow am..
hubby has to go on base for 2 weeks lol so rest when i can but i have the house pets and kids to take care of as well.
Nice to hear nothing serious. Stay in touch with your doctor. Keep pushing him till sack problem is solved. Take lot of rest.
went to the er monday- ran all the test. ua, bw, xrays, and ultra sounds. only thing they found is that my bowels where very backed up-which i am still lost about i had loose stools for over a week and then wasnt going for 3 days.
they also found a fluid filled sack on top of my incession scar tissue. the er doc said it isnt that big and it should go away soon. he pushed me big time to go back to my ob- even after we told him all the issues we where having with him.he said the ob should watch this sack, and that he most likely wont take it out..
all the rest of the test came back clean and ok
that was it then sent me on my way,
went out bought a laxtive- i have gone 2 different times since monday. my gut is still killing me- it feels like someone is stabbing me over and over again. my pain is getting worse rather than better odd but it seems to be hitting hard at night. i get more bloated and this lump in my tummy gets bigger as well. i am still getting wicked sharp neck and shoulder pains on my right side..
i go back t my family doc ar 11 am.. going to see what she feels, honsetly i want them to cut me open again and find out wth is going on...and of course my hubby is leaving tommrow night for his two week on military base..
ugh
they also found a fluid filled sack on top of my incession scar tissue. the er doc said it isnt that big and it should go away soon. he pushed me big time to go back to my ob- even after we told him all the issues we where having with him.he said the ob should watch this sack, and that he most likely wont take it out..
all the rest of the test came back clean and ok
that was it then sent me on my way,
went out bought a laxtive- i have gone 2 different times since monday. my gut is still killing me- it feels like someone is stabbing me over and over again. my pain is getting worse rather than better odd but it seems to be hitting hard at night. i get more bloated and this lump in my tummy gets bigger as well. i am still getting wicked sharp neck and shoulder pains on my right side..
i go back t my family doc ar 11 am.. going to see what she feels, honsetly i want them to cut me open again and find out wth is going on...and of course my hubby is leaving tommrow night for his two week on military base..
ugh
no i dont..thats why my family doc wanted to wait to see what the ua test showed to put me on anything.
You should go to ER ASAP.
ER will run all test same day.
Sounds like you have serious infection. Don't delay. Do you have fever?
ER will run all test same day.
Sounds like you have serious infection. Don't delay. Do you have fever?
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