Surgery update

[Guest guest]

Hello all!!!

First of all, I would like to thank everybody who sent me good luck in my

lap.

Everything went well, the anesthesiologist had to use a special pre sedation

medication to avoid a real bad side effect that I uses to have after general

anesthesia, nasty nausea.

He used IV Dramin, Zofran and glicose as soon after the procedure and plus

IV antibiotcs and Zantac, Tilatil.

I did not have any nausea, by the way I woke still with the intubation, not

so nice!!!

The surgery was done at 8:00 am, at 11:00 I was able to go to my hospital

room and at 19:00 I gone to my place.

Well, the surgeon did not find any endometrioses, by the way I had a huge

hemorrhagic cyst in my left ovary, real big, I lost half of this ovary. It

was so big that was bigger than my uterus...

In the right, he found a small one common cyst that was drained.

Yesterday he removed the sutures and around my navel is still really purple

and green.

Now I'm able to urinate without pain, but in the first 3 days, it was

horrible.

I'm not bloated anymore, but in the first morning after the surgery I woke

up really puffed, incl. my face, fingers, etc...

The pain that I was having before the lap, gone.

I only bleed for 3 days.

At 9 th. January, I will see my gyn. and show the tape and biopsy for her.

The nurses from this hospital were really great.

By the way, one thing that I became a little bit sad, was about my left

ovary.

I only knew that I lost half of it, yesterday, when he gave me the biopsy

result and the description about what was done. He said nothing about it in

the hospital, neither for my husband.

He only talked about the huge hemorragic cyst.

It was my organ, I saw in the tape that it was not in good shape, but I

would like to know what was done.

The recovering is doing OK.

Sorry to be long,

Liane

[Guest guest]

Liane,

That's too bad about you waking while still intubated, it seems that is a

problem with several of our members that has been under discussion this

week. For some of us, I do think it may be because of our regular use of

narcotics and that we need a higher level of medication for sedation.

I am sorry for the loss of your ovary, but you know that they did what they

could to protect your health. I hope that everything will be resolved when you

see your gyn in January, and that you can rest well and without stress during

the holiday.

Please let us know what you learn after seeing the doctor in January.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI, Intl.

Note: All comments or advice are personal opinion only, and should not be

substituted for professional medication consultation.

liane wrote:

Everything went well, the anesthesiologist had to use a special pre sedation

medication to avoid a real bad side effect that I uses to have after general

anesthesia, nasty nausea.

I did not have any nausea, by the way I woke still with the intubation, not so

nice!!!

the surgeon did not find any endometrioses, by the way I had a hug

hemorrhagic cyst in my left ovary, real big, I lost half of this ovary. It was

so

big that was bigger than my uterus...

At 9 th. January, I will see my gyn. and show the tape and biopsy for her.