It sounds like your doctors are telling you that they are planning to just go smashing in there, grab your uterus (and ovaries) and then back out leaving all of the adhesions and lots of dried-out bloody tissues behind to form gobs and gobs of new adhesions. Unless of course they are volunteering to go in and do $40,000 surgery on you and take the $2000 your insurance company is going to give them... Ok, I'm cynical, but "follow the money." If the only surgery out there that isn't going to make you worse is supposed to cost $40,000, then don't let anybody do $2000 surgery on you instead.
I think the first thing you should investigate is whether you need the hysterectomy at all. It's certainly possible that you have some pathology separate from adhesions that make the hysterectomy a good idea. It is also possible that the adhesions have strangulated your uterus and it needs to come out. But taking your uterus just because you have abdominal adhesions makes about as much sense as amputating your pinky because your thumb has gangrene. (I always wonder what it is that they tell men who have adhesions in these situations. A man needs a hysterectomy like a fish needs a bicycle! heeheehee)
At Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Angela wrote:
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>I need help! I have had 4 surgeries in the past two and half years, and
>recently,on March 21st after trying to get a hysterectomy, the doctor
>has to stop the operation because I had to many adheshions around the
>bladder. He said if he proceeded I would have lost it. So here I am in
>pain again, waiting for yet another specialist to try to fix the other
>half of the operation my doctor could not complete. Will a hysterectomy
>fix all of this adheshion growth? They say that is where they are coming
>from. And what about bladder operations? I have no idea what I am in
>for and I need some first hand advice on what to expect. I want the
>best doctor I can get, but how do I begin to even find one? I just want
>this pain to be over. I do not want to keep going through surgeries and
>hurting all the time. Ican hardly take it anymore. The trauma of all
>this is starting to take a real emothional toll on me. I am a strong
>person, and I try hard to keep it in so my family doesn't know how much
>it hurts inside, but if I don't get some support soon I think I might
>just lose it. This is all so confusing to me. Please any advice?
-- cathy :-)