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feliciadragon · 03-13-2006, 08:17 PM

I'm not sure why anyone would choose to have open versus lap, but one of the reasons that can force you to have open is if you have too much scar tissue from previous surgeries. I had already had two laproscopic procedures - one to remove my gall bladder and one to remove an ovarian cyst, so the doctor told me that we would start of with the lap and if there were complications or a lot of scar tissue, he might have to do open instead. He did have some complications which caused the surgery to go a lot longer than originally anticipated, but was able to finish with the lap and not actually cut me open, thank goodness.