Re: Hormones or surgical procedure?
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@llli*holly25
It really didn't start bothering me until my daughter stopped her night time feedings. Then it just came one so suddenly and so so painful. This is my second opinion. The first dr told me that she THOUGHT I had a uterine infection and gave me abx... There was no infection... So I found this dr. She suggested Lupron, that she said would shut my ovaries down, combination BC or the laproscopic procedure. I told her that my hubs and I would like to have another and she said that fertility shouldn't be an issue and that she could clean it up in there if they found the lesions. I'm currently on the progestin only pills and have been since 6 weeks after I delivered my baby. They don't help at all that I can tell. I did read where there was an option to stay awake for the laparoscopy with a spinal. I thought about asking her about that. I figure if you can feed after a c-section with a spinal if would be the same in that situation too?
So I can't comment on the treating the endometriosis issue but a couple of things about the operation in general. First, I personally would not recommend getting a spinal for a laparoscopic procedure, on two counts. One, the fill your belly with air, and it can be pretty uncomfortable even with a spinal -- it would need to be a very high spinal, high enough that you may feel as though you can't breathe, even if you can. Secondly, it'll probably take the surgeon longer to do the procedure, which has consequences for you as well. I personally would strongly try and talk a patient out of a spinal for a lap procedure.
That's the bad news. The good news is that most medications that they give you for anesthesia these days are pretty safe and don't usually go through breast milk. In my hospital, the policy is that if you are awake enough to breast feed after an operation, then you are ready to breast feed. And many times anesthesia is "light" enough that you are awake enough within, say, 30 minutes of the procedure.
Just to give you additional food for thought.
Ellen
Mama-surgeon;
DS Ethan 12/16/2008
Breast fed/pumped 11 months as a surgical resident, 80 hours a week at work
DS Abram Daniel 12/20/2012
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. My best friend from college recently had a laproscopic procedure to deal with her endo issues, and it was a long recovery. I think she said 6 weeks before she felt totally normal.