Surgery stories - Endometriosis Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
I've had one surgery to diagnose and confirm stage one endometriosis. It was a laparoscopy along with a uterine fibroid removal. I had two surgeons and it took about two and a half hours to clean up the endometriosis. They also cleaned up adhesions to my bowels and other internal organs that were caused by the endometriosis. They photographed each of my internal organs to follow up on some inflammation, discoloration, and other cysts that were found. In all, I had four incisions. The pain was pretty bad for about a week. I took 10 days off of work and now I am fully recovered and have had way less symptoms since my surgery almost a year ago.
Video 2 Transcript
I have only had one surgery for endometriosis, but I had this surgery about a year ago, and it was just a laparoscopic surgery, so they just went through and did the diagnosis and removed all the tissues and lesions and cysts that they could. The recovery wasn't as bad as I thought. So I was in, I was a little bit sore for a few days, and it like had some, there was definitely discomfort there for a couple weeks, but after like five or six days from the surgery, I felt like outwardly fine. But yeah, it's not that bad, so don't be afraid if you ever have to go through an endometriosis surgery.
Video 3 Transcript
Prior to my surgery, they had estimated that the surgery would be about 90 minutes in total and then it ended up taking almost three and a half, four hours. They removed, I had a large cyst on my right ovary and then ended up having a medium-sized cyst on my left ovary that they were unaware of. I had numerous adhesions where my ovaries had basically glued themselves to my pelvic wall as well, so they had to deal with that, remove that from the adhesions and then they did a lot of cutting out of the endometriosis that I actually had throughout my pelvic wall. My recovery actually went really well. I didn't have any of the gas pains that usually go with endometriosis surgery, so I got really lucky in that sense.
Video 4 Transcript
I had a laparoscopy surgery in April, so nine months ago. I ended up paying for it privately in the UK because I couldn't wait for the waiting lists as I was in too much pain. I got the call for my surgery two weeks before. I wasn't really nervous about surgery as I've had a lot of operations for other things as well and then the recovery took about three weeks. They said it would take two weeks but I felt like that would be a little bit quick for me. Things that really helped after the surgery was making sure I took my medication on time, having a triangle pillow so that I didn't have to lie completely flat and having peppermint tea and things. I get really bad gas pain from the carbon dioxide and I found that that was the worst pain for me.
