Re: myomectomy sucks...

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Carla, I hope the worst is over for you now that your surgery is completed

and that your pain will subside quickly.

Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery. Hope you feel better soon.

Sincerely,

Jill McWhinnie

myomectomy sucks...

> I'm home this morning. online for only a few. can't wait to post the

> anesthesia record of my myomectomy online...I guess I'm just a horse

> when it comes to stopping pain for me! But myo has UAE beat without any

> doubt on pain richter scale... is 950 mcg of fentanyl a lot of

> fentanyl? plus 25 of demerol, plus..... the list is long.... and

> continued for well over the first 24 hours. Anesthesiologist gave

> instructions to keep it high because of my tolerance level for

> narcotics...but nursing staff disregarded him and went with the floor

> SOPs. Screaming in pain as I woke up and begging for meds occurred with

> myo just as it did with UAE...only this time my husband stayed with me

> the entire time and advocated immediately for intervention and paging

> Broder.

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> Dr. Broder had to do a suspension as well. utero sacral ligaments were

> attenuated and stretched by about 2 cm. he folded them back and

> reinforced them into place with stitching. didn't cut them or shorten

> them by severing them. just folded them and stitched them down on

> either side of uterus. also did something else that I don't remember

> right now. still in lots of pain and taking percoset back to back to

> keep it down some. need to get report and read it after it's written.

> don't know if it will work but complete prolapse was truly going to

> occur after the fibroids were removed without some type of intervention

> -- it was that bad.

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> subserosal fibroid (~8 cm) was soft, very necrosed, and liquified in

> center. It was posterier pre-UAE. It had completely relocated itself

> anteriorly and was tipping the whole uterus forward. I told him so. He

> didn't believe me until he saw it for himself upon pulling the uterus

> out and did express surprise over this. UTerus was positioned normally

> -- not turned -- fibroid was anterior and tilting the whole thing

> downward into the vagina. said he thought he saw PVA in this

> fibroid and asked to be paged by pathology when the slides are done.

> curious myself... 3 other, 1 cm or so intramural fibroids removed.

> will know more in another week or so.

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> got to lay back down. flowers from SCVIR very beautiful. very nice.

> love you guys. sorry my fibroids didn't cooperate and sit still with

> UAE -- but I guess that I was meant to have more to say about all of

> this in the future.

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> BTW, another uterine prolapse reported in Arkansas. Ugh. That woman

> had a 30+ week size fibroid uteri prior to UAE over a year ago. Normal

> uterus now as she has passed a lot of submucosal material. Total

> prolapse of the uterus into the vagina last Saturday. Terrified me

> reading her email as I was preparing for the hospital. Changed my

> surgical plans with and gave him permission to do uterine

> suspension if necessary. It was necessary. Must lie back down. MOre

> next week.

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> Thank you all for your good wishes. I feel good about this surgery.

> glad to be rid of the fibroids too. why dit it have to take over 16

> years of begging for appropriate treatment, UAE, and prolapse though?

> why did it have to take screaming from the rooftops of the internet to

> get any attention or respect for my wishes? why?

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> carla

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