Welcome to the IAS Message Board. You will find a lot of information, love & understanding here. Depending on how you heal, it could take a couple of days to a week to recover from Lap surgery. It sounds like adhesions will be found again. I have bladder problems because adhesions are attached to them & constipation from the pain meds I take for the adhesion pain. I have had 3 c-sections, hysterectomy (total), & a couple of open abdominal surgeries for adhesions, a few(7-8) lap surgeries for adhesions and hernia repair (open abdominal). My next surgery will hopefully be with DR Korell in Germany. He is using Spraygel to help prevent adhesion reformation & is getting great results. When you have surgery for adhesions, you need an expert. They use special technics that will help reduce reformation. I wish you luck & will be praying that this surgery will help you. robin M
At Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Dusti wrote:
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>My name is Dusti and I am a 27 year old female. I have had 4 abdominal
>surgeries (c-section, uterine repair, c-section, hysterectomy) since
>1997 and with the last 3 I have had adhesions removed that were
>attaching my uterus, bladder and colon to some other part of my body. My
>last surgery was February 2000 when I had a hysterectomy and I still
>have both of my ovaries. In the last 6 months I have noticed some of
>the painful symptoms returning. I have been having bladder problems on
>and off since I had my hysterectomy but I have been able to handle that
>pain. The pain with intercourse had returned as well as abdominal
>cramping, bloating, constipation/diarrhea. I have been able to handle
>the bladder and intercourse pain but I am having a lot of trouble
>dealing with the abdominal problems. I found a new OBGYN in Oklahoma
>City and she put me on low dose birth control for hormonal reasons and
>said to take them for a month and see how I feel. My abdominal symptoms
>have worsened considerably so I contacted her and she is going to do a
>diagnostic laparoscopy on August 23. She said she would like to take a
>look and see what is going on.
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>I would appreciate any information that you all might have for me or any
>advice. How long does it take to recover from a laparoscopy? How should
>I expect to feel afterwards? Does anybody here have the same symptoms as
>me and if so how do you deal with them?
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>Thanks
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>Dusti
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