Post-surgery
Endometriosis surgery
The length of a hospital stay for endometriosis surgery varies, but generally lasts between 1 and 3 days post-surgery. What is the procedure for returning home and for post-operative care?
Post-operative care at home
If your operation exceeds a certain level of complexity (digestive tract, urinary tract or diaphragm surgery, etc.), the return home is always on the 3rdday, but you will be accompanied for several days by state-qualified nurses working in the Post-operative care Center.
In this case, you will receive care and monitoring as during your hospital stay, while having the benefits of an early return home. The nurses take regular blood samples to watch for early signs of complications, and can alert your surgeon, with whom they stay in contact 24/7.
If a complex operation is planned for you, and the distance between your home and the Tivoli-Ducos clinic is more than 3 hours drive away, we request that you stay in Bordeaux or in the surrounding area for a further 7 days after leaving the clinic. This precaution allows us to intervene quickly should signs of a complication appear. Our adminstration team can provide you with details of hotels that offer special rates for patients of the Endometriosis Center.
Post-operative visit
The post-operative visit is performed 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 you return home and before the post-operative visit, you can contact us either by phone or via the form below.We would be grateful if you would use this email address only during the immediate post-operative period, and not after the post-operative visit, as this is an emergency inbox, which should thus remain free from messages referring to other matters.
Follow-up after your operation
After your post-operative visit, and in the absence of immediate complications related to the surgery, your follow-up will ideally be carried out by your gynecologist, midwife or GP. Your post-operative consultation letter provides general information on your follow-up and the steps you can take to avoid a recurrence or to conceive. If the treatment prescribed at the post-operative consultation is in anyway unsuitable, do not hesitate to contact us.
Our doctors are always available to talk about your condition, treatment, or the best way to conceive for you. You can request a new consultation with them.
Pain relief treatment with TENS-UROSTIM
La stimulation électrique neuromusculaire transcutanée fonctionne par l’intermédiaire d’un appareil électrique portable qui émet des impulsions électriques sur des points spécifiques du corps et notamment des trajets nerveux qui sont ainsi stimulés.
La stimulation électrique neuromusculaire transcutanée permet de travailler à distance en stimulant des nerfs périphériques. La neurostimulation tibiale postérieure va permettre d’inhiber les contractions anarchiques de la vessie (hyperactivité vésicale) en modifiant le comportement mictionnel pour lutter efficacement contre l’incontinence urinaire. De la même manière, la stimulation tibiale postérieure va agir sur l’activité du sphincter anal interne pour améliorer la continence anale.
Cette thérapie, validée scientifiquement, est prescrite sous contrôle médical (par votre médecin rééducateur, urologue, gynécologue, gastroentérologue, neurologue ) a l’avantage d’être totalement non-invasive, facile à utiliser, d’un faible coût, sans effet secondaire et remboursée.
Pour quelles indications ?
Le TENS-UROSTIM permet de stimuler le nerf tibial postérieur dans les pathologies suivantes:
- Hyperactivité vésicale en particulier dans les troubles neurologiques
- Hyperactivité vésicale idiopathique de l’enfant et de l’adulte (ou syndrome urgenturie-pollakiurie)
- Syndrome dysurique non obstructif, rétention urinaire non-obstructive
- Incontinence anale, constipation, troubles digestifs
- Douleurs pelvipérinéales chroniques, douleurs vésicales
Le TENS-UROSTIM permet aussi la rééducation du sphincter par sonde vaginale ou anale (incontinence d’effort, incontinence mixte). Le traitement s’effectue alors avec une sonde en stimulation excito-motrice dans le but d’effectuer un renforcement périnéal en stimulant le sphincter.
Ces différentes indications sont prises en charge par des médecins de rééducation fonctionnelle, urologues, gynécologues, gastro-entérologues, neurologues.
Il est recommandé d’effectuer un test de réponse à la neurostimulation transcutanée. Après un essai de traitement par la neurostimulation, le patient pourra utiliser cette technique à domicile à la location et/ou à l’achat avec un succès probant.
Clinical Research
Our clinical researchers will contact youat 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 years after surgery to ask you to complete follow-up questionnaires. The processing of these questionnaires allows us to enrich the database used in our ongoing clinical research activities, widely recognized throughout the world. Thank you for continuing to give us some of your time to help us improve knowledge of this mysterious disease, which affects you directly.
You can contact our clinical research team via the form below.
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