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Submitted by angeleyes on June 19, 2006 - 3:14pm
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Hi---well I am 7 weeks post opt and my NEW PROLAPSE hasn't gotten any worse but it is also not any better. I am still having some pain in my left buttock and it radiates down my left leg. The prolapse happened about 3 weeks after my surgery and I am still upset because my DR. didn't seem to care at all. I know anything can happen after surgery but he talked as if complications were rare and now I'm stuck with either more surgery or just living with my new prolapse. It's not, as bad, as before my surgery but definitely not the way I thought it would be. I am just biding my time now and trying to go on with my life. I am still not 100 percent well from the surgery and feel let down by my doctor---who never explained what the surgery would entail nor how I would feel afterwards(even without the complications). I don't trust the medical establishment and I think they just want your money and could care less about you as a person. I know I made my own choice to have the surgery but at least he could have acted concerned about my problems. When I go back to his office on July 3rd, believe you me, I will have a conversation with him about all my feelings and frustations. He may not want to listen nor hear what I have to say but hopefully I can give him some insite into patient information and trust.He will probably just suggest more surgery but I won't allow him to just brush away my problems per scapel----he is going to give me a detailed reason why my surgery didn't work. Thanks For Listening, and hugs to everyone. Angel.

UKmummy

June 19, 2006 - 7:32pm

Hi Angeleyes,
Good to hear back from you, though not under these circumstances of course!
This must be so hard for you! I admire and applaud your intention to get some answers and some accountability from your Dr. I am sure this will help other women in the future.
Thank you for sharing your difficult story and I hope you see some improvement in your condition! have you tried any of Christines work? It may well help your discomfort. keep us posted and take care.
Hugs,
Michelle.

angeleyes

June 22, 2006 - 4:45pm

Hi, Mickuo---and thanks for the response. Yesterday I noticed my prolapse was much lower and I can see that my cervix has a small purple spot on it. I know it isn't a bruise and probably not a stitch, it's been too long since my surgery for either one. I made an appointment for tomorrow and I want some answers, my doctor needs to tell me why this has happened. I just received a bill from him for $7,058.00 and that doesn't include the hospital bill nor all the other related bills. My insurance is paying most of the bill but that isn't the point, he is getting paid for a surgery that didn't work. I am very angry and somewhat depressed and normally I am a happy easy going person. I got my hopes up so high and then I had to go though so much with the surgery that this new prolapse has knocked me for a loop. When I first discovered it I just cried my eyes out, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He assured me that the surgery would be sucessful and I believed him, as I had no reason to think otherwise.When I went to him I hadn't been to my gyn for about five years(I know dumb)but I was too ashamed to let him see my prolapse. Now I see why I didn't go and why surgery is not the answer to prolapse. And in answer to your question--no--I have not tried any of the alternative methods except kegals and they were no help at all. I have always eaten healthy, exercised, and taken herbs and suplements, but my prolapse just kept getting worse, I hope that doesn't happen this time. Thanks for all your support. Angel.

maya

June 22, 2006 - 5:37pm

I have read your earlier posts and I am so sorry for you...

After my second child was born 11 months ago I developed an universal prolapse (all the three). If I hadn't found this site I think I might have already had a date set up for a surgery. I saw 2 doctors about my condition, one in Finland (my native land) and one in here and the one here in States was supposed to be "EXELLENT and NOT pushing for a surgery unless really neccesary!" (!). Both of them introduced the ide aof a surgery as not a big deal at all. They actually presented it in such a way, that I didn't even know that re-prolapse was even possible!!! (naive me, he!).

I cannot BELIEVE how unethical the doctors are in their way of presenting the surgeries.

Please share the information what you get from him with us! I would be so curious to know what are the success rates with these oparations in general, do you know? (anyone???) If you don't know, would you ask him...
I hope you are able to be honest with him about your feelings! He should know how you (and all of us!!!) feel about this. As you are not the only one. I just know from my experience that one gets so easily intimitaded with the doctors, and then it is so much harder to stand up for oneself... At least that is what has happened to me...

I wish you strenght!

blessing,
maija

fullofgrace

June 22, 2006 - 9:09pm

Doctors claim 95%; I'm not sure if Christine put a figure in her book or not. If I get time, I'll check tomorrow. Maybe you can find it on the main site in the archives www.wholewoman.com.

When I first discovered prolapse I ended up at forum where women had had surgery and their signature lines were full of several dates of repeat surgeries. That spoke volumes to me about the lack of success of these operations. It was really depressing to read.

I am so sorry that doctors feel they have to do something so drastic as surgery for a benign condition. And I am so sorry for what you have experienced. I too would like to know the answers he gives you.
Jane

UKmummy

June 23, 2006 - 1:05am

Hi Angel,
I am interested too in whether your Ob/gyn did your surgery or whether it was a Uro/gyn? Good luck for your appointment tomorrow and I am thinking of you!
Michelle x

ann.helen

June 25, 2006 - 8:48pm

hi

i'm so sorry to hear about you're surgery and the subsequent problems you're going through. What an awfull doctor, they really can be so callous in the way they just present these surgeries as uncomlicated and then behave so businesslike in response to a human life having being altered.

I know it was sheer luck i didn't end up in a similar situation. as i remember actually asking my doc. why they couldn't just take out my uterus when they told me i had a uterus prolapse.
She had the wrong organ as it happens and said "sure, we'll take it out, but not just yet (i was 27 i think at the time)."

I do hope you get to express some of you're feeling's to him..

You mentioned a shooting pain from the buttock down the leg., could this be sciatica do you think. If so acupuncture is definately excellent for this. (we studied it and practiced a few weeks ago in acupuncture technique class and a student had immeadiate relief)

Best wishes

Anne-helen