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solo_soprano22 -> RE: Vaginal reconstructive surgery (6/15/2008 12:22:32 AM)
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The problem is that it's just soft tissue involved, and surgery on the soft tissue is what made it swell to begin with. If they do more surgery on the soft tissue, I'll swell up more, stay the same, or be swollen with less tissue on that side. I'm thinking even if they take some tissue off the swollen side or reshape it (to "even things out"), surgery to the area is so traumatic (to my body) that the pain and swelling won't resolve-- just the aesthetics will. I think the vulvodynia and IC may be complicating it and I know I have had some anomalies, which is why I'm going to a urogynecologist that specializes in how everything is interconnected (and "special" gyno surgery). I'm thinking even if he can't do anything, he might know someone who can, although logically I can't think of anything to be done by any kind of doctor, unless they want to try some electrode stimulation, although that's usually for open wounds...might be worth a try if it has a chance to work.
I've healed from every other kind of surgery except the gynecological ones, but all the gyno ones have been directly to my vestibule, and I'm afraid I've just lost that ability to recover in the area due to how sensitive it is..and these disorders that affect my vestibule. I know my doctors never really wanted to do more surgery there; I suppose cutting, suturing and removing large anomalies like that can cause these kinds of problems... The only other cases I've seen took a long time to heal, but none longer than four months (if I remember right).
A plastic surgeon can fix how things look and make the bigger side the right size, but what he can't fix is the fact that I can't heal in that area of my body. If he does something to make it look better, it still lacks the ability to heal after surgeries. It may look right to the eye (which is okay), but in reality I'll probably feel the same way physically.
The standing isn't usually from the surgery issues by itself though; I usually have to have pain from the surgery and the vulvodynia has to be especially bad on a given day (or the vvs, IC, and surgery are all bad on a particular day).
I'm not sure that my insurance would cover it though. They won't even cover things that I'm pretty sure they know I need (CT to check out a mass, tumor biopsy, etc). That's one reason why I waited to get the surgery that messed me up to begin with. Insurance didn't approve it, but it got to where it became an emergency situation after some time passed.
I'm getting kind of sleepy so that might not have made sense...not all of it anyway, lol.
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