Can anyone with medical knowledge help with this one? : )

January 12, 2004

Hi all. I was scheduled for a breast reduction this Friday, however,

last Wednesday I woke up in excruciating pain in the left lower quadrant

of my stomach towards the hip, after seeing gyn, plastic surgeon and

gastro doc, nobody knew what it was. Gastro doc sent me for my second

CAT scan of the week which showed a " subcutaneous soft tissue density

new hemorrhage from 2 cm deep to the skin surface extending 9 cm

laterally out of the field of view " I spoke with my gastro doc and he

put me on painkillers, heating pads and rest all weekend. I spoke with

the radiologist on Friday and he said it looked like a surgical clip or

suture tore apart. When speaking with the ps on Friday morning he said

that he was " boggled " and the only thing he can think of and its so rare

that he has only seen it once and not this far out from the

abdominoplasty (I'm a year and a half out) that a suture or clip came

loose and a hematoma formed.

Spoke with him this morning and he said that he doubts very much this is

what happened, but due to the " spontaneous " bleed, he does not want to

perform the br on Friday. He did add this should correct itself and he

rescheduled my surgery for 2/11. My question is, how can three doctors

tell me that I'm bleeding internally and not know the reason and then

tell me it will correct itself? Should I be concerned that I will

" spontaneously bleed " after the br? Lab work shows that my Hemoglobin

has gone down slightly from last month from 13.8 to 12.7 now. The iron

levels are within low normal range with the exception of the TIBC with

is low at 239. Has anyone ever had this happen? I have a call out to two

of my friends who are physicians, one is another gastro doc and the

other is an ENT, but knows about everything. Way too smart for his own

good. Just waiting for their calls back. Also spoke to the nurse at my

hematologist's office. She's going to run this past him and he is going

to call me back later.

When I asked the ps if this does not correct itself would he go in and

look and he told me that it wouldn't be his area and when I asked him

whose it would be, he didn't give me any answers. He is a wonderful

surgeon and a great guy, but frankly I'm " boggled " by the " it will go

away on its own even though we don't know how this happened in the first

place " statement. I haven't sustained any trauma to the area. The only

thing I can think of is when I had the transvaginal sono done on

Tuesday.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regina

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