Re: Surgery In August
From: Anita Rivera (arivera@covhlth.com)
Wed Jul 19 21:43:34 2006
At Fri, 30 Jun 2006, sdh wrote:
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>"The general consensus from all of these doctors was that they felt that
the only way to really remove adhesions and see all of them was to perform a
>laparotomy, which is a completely open surgery"
>
Laparotomy may be the only way to really see all of the adhesions but if
you know you have adhesions, I would strongly advise against it. That
is just my opinion. Adhesions are going to reform either way. But with
open surgery you have more of a chance for them to develop along the
scar line, which, can I just tell you how miserable this can feel?
Certainly, the advantage to open surgery is that they can place
seprafilm more thoroughly but this is not a be all end all solution. I
had seprafilm placed at my last adhesion surgery, which was done by
laparotomy when the doctor actually intended to do it laparoscopically
(the adheshions were to dense and massive to do the surgery
laparoscopically, and I had plenty of adhesions that reformed. It's an
individual decision and no one can tell you what to do. This is one of
the lonliest parts of this condition. BUT, I can just tell you, from my
experience I've chosen to just find alternative ways other than more
surgery to deal with my adhesions. Hopefully, they'll come up with more
conclusive solutions to these blasted things in the future at which time
I'll consider more surgery - - but not until then unless absolutely
necessary. Good luck!
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Anita
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