Had my excision surgery, pathology negative
I just had my excision surgery Monday, my surgeon was called into another surgery right after mine but he called my husband and told him that he found some small endometriosis but none of it was deep infiltrating and that he checked everywhere and is confident none was left behind. He also found dilated ovarian veins that he ligated, a small ovarian cyst he removed ( found to be an ovarian cystadenofibroma), and a partially dilated ureter of unknown cause. He performed a peritonectomy on several areas and removed some adhesions. I got my pathology results, and none of it is positive for endometriosis, rather every single sample aside from fallopian tubes is marked either fibroconnective tissue or fibromuscular tissue, so basically scar tissue. I'm spiraling a bit, how can this be when I'm in so much pain and the dr saw what he believed to be endo? My surgeon said the scar tissue was likely caused by complications from a surgery 20 years ago and that the removal will likely still bring a lot of relief as well as the vein ligation... but i can't help but feel the surgery was pointless? I so desperately need this to have helped my symptoms 😭 plus I spent so much money and have disrupted my family's lives so much to have this surgery and now I feel like it was all for nothing...
Has anyone had a surgery where over a dozen pathology samples came back with only scar tissue? Were your symptoms resolved or lessened after the removal? Has anyone had dilated ovarian veins ligated and did that help any symptoms?