Jenny,
I have one for you too, in 1987 I had a bilateral tubal ligation (which is how this all got started). I started having severe pelvic and abdominal pain. The OB/GYN did a pelvic ultasound where they stick what looks like a baseball bat up into see inside. This showed where there was one tiny piece of tube left from 1987 and there was a large mass in it. The figured out that I had a tubal pregancy and my tube had burst. This only happens in one in a milion. So for some reason, my husband's swimmers got through.
Have a great day !!
Lynn
>Hi everyone!
>
>I'm sort of old and sort of new here. I went to see my gyn a week ago
>from this past Friday. After being passed around from doctor to doctor,
>he sounded all gung-ho about trying to help me with the adhesion problem
>along with a prolapsed everything. All this I have been trying to get
>taken care of since April so I could get it done before school starts
>back for me in the fall which is now in less than 2 weeks. My gyn was
>feeling that my bowels maybe had a kink in them... again. So I had a
>CT with contrast on Tuesday last week and was supposed to have a lower
>bowel series on THursday but nothing had moved in my bowels. So I got
>the report from the CT. It said I had a kidney stone in the kidney and
>a cyst on my left ovary. I about fell out of my chair when I read that
>one. I had a complete hysterectomy in June of 2000. THey took out
>everything! So I called my doctor's office who told me that they were
>not going with those reports, because he was really concerned with the
>lower bowel series. I figured there was some sort of mistake. Friday I
>woke up doubled over in pain. I called my gyn's office to get his nurse
>telling me that it wasn't a gynelogical problem and I should call my
>pain management doc or my PCP. I kept aking her why because I had seen
>my gyn a week ago and he ordered these tests. She just kept saying it
>wasn't a gynelogical problem so I would have to call another doctor. I
>said, "So you are telling me that he doesn't intend on helping me?" And
>she said well we have to get the rest of you series back but it is not a
>gynelogical problem. I asked her how would I know if I had a bowel
>obstruction. She wouldn't even tell me that. She just told me to call
>another doctor. I was so upset. My hubby came home and took me to the
>ER. I knew it was pain that felt different than the normal adhesion
>pain I have everyday. The ER doctor ran another CT and an ultrasound
>which both showed I am the proud owner of an ovary with a cyst! I saw it
>on the ultrasound machine clear as day before the tech said anything. In
>fact I asked her what that was. And I could see the cyst too. The cyst
>is not big at all and should not be causing me more pain. More than
>likely it was because I am full of *&$@%! They didn't know what to do
>for me. I had an ER doctor, Internal Medicine doctor, and a nurse
>asking me what I wanted for pain. I told them I didn't know. They were
>the doctor's they should decide. They were going to admit me, give me
>something to move the bowels, call a GI doctor, and my gyn. I told them
>I could do a laxative at home and I would see my gyn on Monday. I
>really wished I had stayed because I have been in too much pain. I
>already have a small pharmacy in my house. I really want to be off all
>this junk. My gyn is in disbelief that I have an ovary. He thinks
>maybe some tissue from my ovary was left and grew. The chances of that
>were about 1 in about million, but I have proved them wrong in other
>cases as well. Whatever the case it doesn't appear to be a functioning
>ovary except for the cyst. My gyn is going to talk with Dr. Gerhart
>and if there is no way that we can get me to have surgery through him
>then my gyn will do it with a general surgeon. I am praying for Dr.
>Gerhart route though, even if I have to wait until Christmas, which is
>what it looks like it will be anyway. As for my tummy, it is seeming
>like I will have to drink more fluids than eat. I don't want to get
>hooked on laxatives. I already take enough medications as it is. I
>guess I am rambling here. I hope you are all feeling great and are pain
>free. I am sorry this is so long. I just thought I would share it. It
>is strange! I have an ovary!
>
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>Jenny
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