Post-op
Endometriosis surgery
The length of hospitalization for endometriosis surgery varies, but generally lasts between 1 and 3 days post-operatively. What about your return home and post-operative follow-up?
Post-operative care at home
If your operation exceeds a certain degree of complexity(digestive tract, urinary tract, diaphragm surgery, etc.), you are always discharged home on the3rd day, but you are accompanied for several days by state-qualified nurses affiliated to the Aftercare Center.
In this case, you benefit from care and monitoring comparable to that provided during your hospital stay, but with the advantages of an early return home. The nurses continue to take the blood tests needed to monitor the first signs of complications, and alert your surgeon, with whom they remain in contact 24/7.
If you are scheduled for a complex operation, and the distance between your home and the Tivoli-Ducos clinic is more than 3 hours by car, we ask you to stay in Bordeaux or the surrounding area for a further 7 days after leaving the clinic. This precaution will enable us to intervene rapidly should signs of a complication appear. Our secretaries can provide you with some addresses of hotels offering attractive rates for patients of the Endometriosis Center.
Post-op visit
The post-operative visit is carried out by the surgeon who operated on you and is usually scheduled a few weeks after your discharge from the clinic. If you have any concerns after returning home and before the post-operative visit, you can contact us quickly either by telephone or via the form below. Please use this e-mail address only in the immediate post-operative period, and never beyond the post-operative consultation, as this is an emergency mailbox, which must not be overloaded with messages relating to other matters.
Follow-up after your operation
Beyond the post-operative visit, and in the absence of immediate complications linked to the surgery, your follow-up will preferably be carried out by your gynecologist, midwife or general practitioner. The post-operative consultation letter defines the general lines of your follow-up and the measures that will enable you to avoid a recurrence or achieve pregnancy. If the treatment prescribed at the post-operative consultation is not suitable for you, you can let us know by contacting us.
Our doctors are always available to discuss your condition, your treatment, or the best way to conceive in your case. You can request a new consultation with them.
TENS-UROSTIM pain relief treatment
Transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation works by means of a portable electrical device that emits electrical impulses at specific points on the body, in particular nerve pathways that are stimulated in this way.
Transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation enables us to work remotely by stimulating peripheral nerves. Posterior tibial neurostimulation inhibits anarchic bladder contractions (bladder hyperactivity) by modifying micturition behavior, effectively combating urinary incontinence. Similarly, posterior tibial stimulation acts on internal anal sphincter activity to improve anal continence.
This scientifically validated therapy is prescribed under medical supervision (by your rehabilitation physician, urologist, gynecologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, etc.) and has the advantage of being totally non-invasive, easy to use, low-cost, without side effects and reimbursed.
For which indications?
TENS-UROSTIM stimulates the posterior tibial nerve in the following pathologies:
- Bladder overactivity, particularly in neurological disorders
- Idiopathic overactive bladder in children and adults (or urgenturia-pollakiuria syndrome)
- Non-obstructive dysuric syndrome, non-obstructive urinary retention
- Anal incontinence, constipation, digestive disorders
- Chronic pelviperineal pain, bladder pain
TENS-UROSTIM can also be used for sphincter rehabilitation via a vaginal or anal probe (stress incontinence, mixed incontinence). Treatment is performed with an excito-motor stimulation probe, with the aim of strengthening the perineum by stimulating the sphincter.
These different indications are managed by functional rehabilitation physicians, urologists, gynecologists, gastroenterologists and neurologists.
It is recommended to carry out a transcutaneous neurostimulation response test. After a trial of neurostimulation treatment, the patient can use this technique at home, either rented or purchased, with convincing success.
Clinical research
Our clinical researchers will contact you at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 years after surgery, to ask you to complete follow-up questionnaires. Processing these questionnaires enables us to enrich the database the database that enables us to develop a rich clinical research activitywidely recognized throughout the world. We ask you to continue to give us a little of your time to help us expand our knowledge of this mysterious disease, which affects you directly.
You can contact them using the form below.
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