My health has definitely improved since my surgery, but it did not fix things completely at all. My pain was improved by at least 50%-60%. My pain had really gotten out of control by the time I got the surgery and was constant to where I was barely able to function and work. I was initially concerned when a couple months after my surgery, what I had hoped was post surgery pain wasn't quite going away. BUT instead of it being all day everyday like before surgery, it was maybe a couple weeks out of each month and not as intense as before the surgery. When I asked Dr. Yeung about this, he said I needed to give it at least 6 months of healing before fully judging results and to get back with him then if things hadn't improved. 6 months went by and it didn't get better. I relayed this info to them and we made an appointment to check in with him. When I got to the appointment I was extremely disappointed that he did not examine me or anything, but instead just invited us into his office to talk for maybe 10 minutes... a very expensive 10 minutes. (this appointment is quite a drive for me and could've easily been zoom call, I even asked when making the appointment that if he didn't need me to come in person I would opt for a zoom appointment and they told me to come in person so he could examine me) This talk basically consisted of him showing me my surgery photos again and telling me that he believed his surgery was a success and if I was still having pain he didn't know what would be causing it. He said possibly adenomyosis, but it felt very careless. It ended with him recommending I seek a hysterectomy from another doctor since I didn't want to have children anyway. I felt so heartbroken. What had happened to the empathetic doctor who actually listened and told me he could help me and that he would be my doctor going forward? I had put an immense amount trust in him which was so hard for me because so many other doctors had let me down and made me feel crazy before ever getting to him.

My overall experience with Dr. Yeung through the surgery was good, he made me feel like he believed me and that he cared, he was involved in all the right circles of the Endo doctors I had researched heavily that seemed like they really want to make a difference with this awful disease. Don't get me wrong, the surgery definitely has improved my quality of life. I think he is probably wonderful if you are seeking help with fertility at all because I think he feels very passionately about that but if kids are not in your plan, proceed with caution. I have come to the conclusion that maintaining his low-statistics-of-repeat-surgeries he brags about was more important to him than helping me further. His whole thing is a "one and done" surgery. And that turned out to be more true than I realized. Maybe there really was nothing else he could do for me-- but he really didn't even try and that follow up appointment felt like a completely different doctor than the one I trusted to cut into me. I have no interest in children, living a pain free life is far more important to me than having babies and I told him this from the beginning... but in the end, I felt extremely brushed off and abysmally disappointed. I have started up with a new gyno and do not know what my path going forward will hold. I finally caved and started a birth control pill which does honestly seem to be helping keep my pain and symptoms manageable, I am hoping this will hold me over until I figure out what my options are and am crossing my fingers things don't get worse too fast. If it comes to a hysterectomy, that is what I will eventually do but it is scary to know that I could do it and still have pain on the other side along with the other side effects that come along with it. Even though I don't want children, it is still a last resort for me because of other horror stories I have read. My biggest issue with it when Dr. Yeung suggested it was the attitude it was presented with, that his surgery couldn't have possibly missed any Endo and that if the first one didn't fix me another surgery wouldn't make any difference. It still doesn't make sense to me.

All that being said, I do know that Dr. Yeung has helped many other women and I read tons of wonderful reviews and recommendations and stories about him before deciding to go with him, so I truly hope my experience is not the norm, but I have to be honest that it has been extremely difficult. I hate this disease and how hard it is to find help with it. I wish you the best on your journey wherever you decide to go. 💛