ADHESION & HYSTERECTOMY SURGERY AFTER RNY

pamhates2diet
on 10/24/10 12:49 am, edited 10/24/10 12:51 am - lanham, MD
I had a hysterectomy (uterus removed ovaries left) in 2001,  and then RNY in 2007.  In the summer of 2008 I had to have my ovaries removed because of a mass that was seen on my left ovary during a CT scan and ultrasound testing.  During the surgery to remove the ovaries the doctor could only find one ovary (the one on the right side not the left one) and removed it saying that it was found across my abdomen and that had to be what was showing up on the CT and ultrasound as it did have a non-cancerous small complex cyst.  She thought the missing one from the left side had to have been removed during the original hysterectomy.  She said that she searched my abdominal cavity high and low and no other ovary could be found but that there was an enormous amount of scar tissue from the gastric bypass and other abdominal surgeries.  I have been having abdominal pain and from testing it has been discovered that I now have a mass on what the test are showing is the missing left ovary.  (Yes the very one that was to be operated on the first time.)  The same doctor is going to the surgery but is afraid to do the surgery because of what she found when she went in for the first ovary removal surgery.  She says that what is showing up as an ovarian mass is probably scar tissue from the RNY surgery.  She has me scared to death!  She says that in order to get to the ovary (which she doesn't think is really an ovary -- 3 other second opinion doctors do in fact believe it is an ovary and should come out) she has to peel away the adhesions and look for the ovary.  She says that at any point a tear could be made in the intestines that could cause a baterial infection.  Anyone have abdominal surgery after RNY where adhesions are involved? 
Jus ChanJ N ME
on 10/24/10 8:25 pm
I am so sorry you are going through this. But in my humble opinion, I wouldn't let that doctor do my surgery. I would get another doctor because it seems as if she had no idea as to what she is doing especially with you being a wls patient.

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