What is the name of your state? Michigan
In July 2004, after several trips to the emergency room following roughly 4 weeks of continous vomiting, my 23 year old GF was diagnosed with Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (of the molar pregnancy variety). She was sent to surgery the same night as diagnosis, had a DNC, and was sent to ICU for nearly a week.
Happily, her HCG levels have gone to zero and despite lingering thyroid problems and some signs that the cancer has metastasized in her lungs, she in great health and of course her family and I are glad that she survived her cancer scare without even having to undergo chemo.
However, she experiences urinary incontience on a frequent basis. Loss of urgency is apparent as well as stress induced leakage (sneezing, coughing, etc.) We think it was a result of a botched catheter insertion or removal during her care. Following surgery they inserted a catheter which was immediatly removed because of extreme pain. After 12 hours or so in care they were forced to insert another one because she was immobile. Apparently there were many problems with both the insertion and removal of this catheter, and three nurses were called to remove it before one was actually able to.
Her oncologist referred us yesterday to a urologist, who said upon initial examination there is nothing he could think of resulting from a DNC or a catheter procedure that could cause her incontinence. While she is scheduled for a full workup in about three weeks, to have a cystometrogram and a cystoscopy, she was precribed detrol LA in the meantime to see if that fixed the problem.
I guess what I'm trying to find out, and what I don't understand from her urologists visit is if this is a normal outcome from the procedures she endured.
If further information is needed I will be glad to post it.
In July 2004, after several trips to the emergency room following roughly 4 weeks of continous vomiting, my 23 year old GF was diagnosed with Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (of the molar pregnancy variety). She was sent to surgery the same night as diagnosis, had a DNC, and was sent to ICU for nearly a week.
Happily, her HCG levels have gone to zero and despite lingering thyroid problems and some signs that the cancer has metastasized in her lungs, she in great health and of course her family and I are glad that she survived her cancer scare without even having to undergo chemo.
However, she experiences urinary incontience on a frequent basis. Loss of urgency is apparent as well as stress induced leakage (sneezing, coughing, etc.) We think it was a result of a botched catheter insertion or removal during her care. Following surgery they inserted a catheter which was immediatly removed because of extreme pain. After 12 hours or so in care they were forced to insert another one because she was immobile. Apparently there were many problems with both the insertion and removal of this catheter, and three nurses were called to remove it before one was actually able to.
Her oncologist referred us yesterday to a urologist, who said upon initial examination there is nothing he could think of resulting from a DNC or a catheter procedure that could cause her incontinence. While she is scheduled for a full workup in about three weeks, to have a cystometrogram and a cystoscopy, she was precribed detrol LA in the meantime to see if that fixed the problem.
I guess what I'm trying to find out, and what I don't understand from her urologists visit is if this is a normal outcome from the procedures she endured.
If further information is needed I will be glad to post it.