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Anyone Know Of Alternative Anesthesia For A D&C?
Anyone Know Of Alternative Anesthesia For A D&C?
Does anyone on here know of how I can get an alternative to anesthesa I am petrified of being put to sleep for a D&C with a hysteroscopy,and I talked to several anesthesiologists at two different hospitals and one said they would never do an epidural or spinal for a D&C and the scecond one said it can be done but he doesn't recommend it.Any suggestions please.
Thank You
My mother died at age 49 a week and half before her 50th birthday on September 1,1985 when I was 20 from a rare aggressive type of endometrial cancer stage 4 in just 4 months after being diagnosed,although she put off going and getting checked out by the doctor for many months after she was feeling weak and sick already.
I have a uterine polyp found on two transvaginal ultrasounds,and the most recent one I had was done September 1,just 4 days after my period was over and my uterine lining was 14mmn( I had this recent transvaginal done at a different place for the first time and the radiologist wrote on my report that the differential diagnoses is ,endometrial hyperplasia,a olyp or endometrial cancer!) and I also have 2 small fibroids which weren't there(neither was the polyp) in October 2006 when I had my first transvaginal ultrasound because I was spotting off and on in between my period for a year by then,now it's off and on for 5 years now.
On The Mayo Clinic site and quite a few others.Web MD,Encyclopedia of Surgery, etc in their great article on a D&C it says that regional anesthesia can be used,and I'm beyond terrified of being put to sleep even with the Twilight anesthesia that would be used for it,I'm 45 and a half and I have a possible uterine polyp found on two transvaginal ultrasounds,and my mother died at age 49 in just four months from a rare aggressive stage four endometrial cancer on September 1 1985.I have always been told that endometrial cancer isn't genetic since I have asked since she died when I was 20 if I have to ever worry about this.
On another site for hysterectomies I found a post the other day from February 2010 by a woman who said she was going to have general anesthesia but her anesthesiologist offered her what he called a short spinal,and that it's the same epidural they give to women having C-sections,she said she was numb from the waist down and she didn't feel any pain just a little pressure and it wore off in an hour and a half.She was very lucky to have a good kind anesthesiologist like that who offered that her and did it! So it *can* be done! Another woman on that site said she had a parecerical block with some sedation but was awake and felt no pain!
I spoke with a young woman who used to live across from me,and she had an epidural for a C-section,and I asked her if she got a headache and she said no.She said it feels really strange because legs are paralyzed but it wore off in an hour and a half,I told her that I'm terrified of being put to sleep and that I would rather have the epidural and she said it's better than being put to sleep.
I have several risk factors though,I was always thin until I was 34 and I have been struggling with being somewhat overweight since then,though I'm far from obese,I have never been pregnant and I have never taken birth control pills.
Anyway, I talked to two local anesthesiologists in Philadelphia about getting an epidural for the D&C on the suggestion of my cardiologist after I told her I'm terrified of being put to sleep.The anesthesiologist at Holly Redeemer Hospital said I would get a headache,and I'd be numb from the waste down for two hours,and he told me that if I'm not breathing right with this lighter sedation anesthesia,I would have to be put on general! Another amnesthesiologist at Jefferson Hospital talked about a spinal anesthesia,but I asked about an epidural,and he said that only 1 to 2 % of people in my age group gets a headache,he said it's usually people much younger than me,but he still said he wouldn't recommend a spinal for a D&C.I have never had any surgery except all four wisdom teeth removed when I was 17,and I don't think general anesthesia was used,because I didn't have any side effects,I just felt a little groggy when I woke up.
I have had bad gastrointestinal pain off and on on my left side for 16 years and two gastrointerologists suggested I have a colonoscopy,but they both feel I have some type of irritable bowel condition,and the second one said he's pretty sure my colonscopy would be normal.I have always refused to have it done because I'm petrifed of being put to sleep!So I really wanted to know how I can find an anesthesiologist in my city or at least state,Pennsylvania who would do a D&C with a regional anesthesia.
I have found *SO MANY* countless women including in a discussion on this site about how painful the endometrial biopsies are,including from women who had other painful procedures,and 3 or 5 kids by natural vaginal births! Many women said that taking prescription pain killers like percocet or Vicoden before the test really helped,but I read two women say it was still very painful! One woman on this site said she took 800mg of Motrin and 25mg of Vicoden and it was still very painful! Another woman on another site said she took several Advils,Ativan and Percocet and it was still very painful! I posted on here months ago about how I refused an endometrial biopsy at Fox Chase Cancer Center when a woman oncology gynecologist surprised me wanting to do it after she looked at my film of my ultrasound,and I wasn't mentally or physically prepared with any pain medicine at all.A few months later she only was going to prescribe 600mg of Ibuprofen and nothing stronger even after I told her nurses I am very sensitive to pain.Her nurses kept insisting the biopsy isn't that bad and her main nurse said she has had this doctor give her sveral biopsies.
Even the creep anesthesiologist at one of my local hospitals who called me back and doesn't want to give me an epidural for a D&C said he's met many women patients who said thank God for procedures like this where they can be put to sleep,because they have had in office uterine biopsies that were horribly painful and they said please never let me have to go through that again!
If you can help with any suggestions I really would appreciate it.
Thank You,
C
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