>From: twelsh1@hotmail.com (toni welsh)
>Reply-To: adhesions@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@forum.obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: Laprascopy complications question
>Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 07:25:36 -0500
>
>At Mon, 22 May 2000, JIM wrote:
> >
> >I am scheduled for laproscopic adhesiolysis on June 8. My surgeon told
> >me that she will inflate my abdominal cavity with CO2 gas so she will
> >have space to work. In speaking with someone who has had the same
> >experience I was told that the CO2 was very unpleasant when they came
> >out of the surgery.
> >
> >Can some of the posters to this message board give me their experiences
> >on problems, complications, or negative side effects with laproscopy? I
> >will still have the surgery but
> >I would like to be prepared for whatever might come. I have had enough
> >medical surprises lately.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >--
>
> >Jim from Milwaukee
>
>The last lap I had was in 98, but the gas pains did bother me, I had to
>call the dr late that night for something for nausea, I was afraid to
>fall asleep, in case I got sick, but the next morning I was feeling ALOT
>better.
>
>I was feeling bad again last night, I have been pushing myself to the
>max, but it keeps my mind busy. I cannot stay still, I had to force
>myself to lay down last night. I had been shopping with my husband and
>I started feeling alot of pain, and when I got home I laid down. My
>bowels are not moving at all. I thought I was going to get sick when I
>got off the sofa, and then I got real nervous. I sipped on some coke,
>and I felt somewhat better
>
>I really have had enough, and am sick and tired of this whole thing, and
>cannot bring myself to have the surgery. I am scared to death it will
>make the matters worse as far as the bowels are concerned. I still have
>been told by the drs here in Cinti, that I have to have the adhesions
>lysed only if done by laparotomy, none of the drs here will do a lap on
>me, they all said it is impossible to get in. I am all of a sudden got
>a fear of not waking up after the surgery, and cannot do this. I see
>the pain clinic today, and plan on asking them why taking the meds I
>still have pain. I take Neurotin, oxycontin, and trazadone, and had a
>reaction to Ultram, so I had to stop it. I am now sick of taking the
>pills, the narcotics are upsetting my stomach. I wish I knew what to
>do.
>
> Have any of you beem told that the meds could cause ulcers?
>
>Take care all of you, and hope to hear from soeone. Ready to give it
>up, I am trying so hard to do what the gyn said after the last surgery.
>I may have to learn to live with it. He knowes there is still NOTHING
>out there that will DEFINITELY work, and to go through another
>laparptomy and not work again. Is too much for me to handle now!
>
>Toni
> >
>