After much thought of having the surgery or holding off... I'm holding off...
I emailed the first Dr. that did my surgeries and asked her some more questions... I didn't really care for her response.
"Re the role of surgery – it is for your comfort and quality of life. The hernia that you have is very unlikely to ever cause strangulation of the bowel. But, you describe daily issues with your prolapse and hernia, so I offered to fix it. If it is not causing you any problems, then we can cancel the surgery."
I don't have much of a quality of life and not much comfort... I will continue to live as I have for the past umm years... I will continue to look for a Dr., if ever there should be an emergency and need of surgery and not just for "my comfort and quality of life".
The second opinion Dr. said something completely different from the first... he mentioned strangulation of the bowel... it can happen... just a matter of when... He was going to try laparoscopy and if that didn't work, then he would have to open the old way... The first Dr. was hoping to do neither; she was going to work locally on the abdominal wall. She didn't mention that if that doesn't work, then what???
Anyway, thanks to all that took the time to read and respond... God bless, Aileen
What concerns you about surgery? You definitely don't want emergency surgery because you won't have time to even pick a surgeon. If you are otherwise healthy, you need to keep looking for a doctor you are comfortable with because when it's done, you will be glad. I didn't realize the pain I was dealing with until it was done.
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Hi LisaD, I'm still checking out surgeons to repair my second hernia and second prolapse.. but you're right.. I don't want to wait for an emergency..
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