Pelvic Laparoscopy Surgery:
Pelvic laparoscopy is a surgical procedure that examines and treats pelvic organs through a small surgical viewing instrument (laparoscope) inserted into the abdomen at the navel.
While you are deep asleep and pain-free under general anesthesia, the doctor makes a half-inch surgical cut in the skin below the navel (which may be kind of hard due to scar tissue from a previous surgery). Carbon dioxide gas is pumped into the abdomen to help the doctor see the organs more easily.
The laparoscope, an instrument that looks like a small telescope on a flexible tube, is inserted so the doctor can view the area. Other instruments will be inserted through other small cuts in the lower abdomen to get tissue samples or do other procedures. After the laparoscopy, the carbon dioxide gas is released, and the surgeon closes the cuts with stitches or staples.
The surgery should only last an hour, I get to go home about 2 hours after the surgery is over, there are only small external scars, only moderate postoperative pain that includes some shoulder pain due to irritation from the gas, and taking it easy for only a few days with complete recovery in 2 weeks. If the surgery shows Endometriosis the hope is that he will be able to remove it all during the surgery. If I do not have endometriosis my hope then is that I just had an ovarian cyst that ruptured and is causing pain for an unusually long period of time. I will find out soon.


1 comment:
very informative, sister o' mine
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