Author: laddertipper
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:34 am
| hatmaker510 wrote: |
| Ladder, I skimmed most of this thread and wanted to share a couple thoughts. I had a hysterectomy when I was about 36 (I’m 46 now). I a full hysterectomy (which is the uterus and the cervix, if they take the ovaries out that’s an oopherectomy (sp?)). Anyway, mine was done abdominally – yup, I was gutted like a damn fish. So my surgery will be nothing like yours. BUT – I had mine done because I wouldn’t stop bleeding! It went on for months and months and months! And since I wasn’t going to use my uterus, my doctor and I thought the best route was a hysterectomy. When they removed my uterus there was nothing they could find wrong to account for all the bleeding. But I can tell you this – getting that hysterectomy was the BEST decision I could have made!
And if they’re doing yours via a laparoscopy, it’ll be a much easier procedure (my sister had hers done that way) for you. I wish I could have gone that way. Anyway, I wish you the very best – with everything – including your sub jump. Take care. |
Oh man, thank you. I think you get what a pain this is. I don’t bleed all the time, but the amount when I do is absolutely intolerable. Sheesh, I bet the men love this thread. 
I guess I really won’t get too graphic, but I’ll just say it is scary. I keep hearing women saying it’s the best thing they have ever done. It seems like it affords a lot of us a fantastic kind of freedom. See, men cannot possibly understand what a pain this is!
Hat, you probably were gutted ‘like a fish’ because they took your cervix. That’s how they would do it if I was going to have my cervix out. I got a choice on the cervix and am keeping it for now. Only drawback is I have to keep having paps, but I think I can handle that. The other drawback is there will be a scar, but he’s going to try to hide it in a tattoo I have there. The other incision will be in my belly button.
Lilly, I completely respect questioning surgery because they do it too quickly nowadays. I was absolutely stunned when the doctor suggested this as an option. He did lay out all my options. I was thinking the hysterectomy seems the wisest move and I asked what he would have his wife do, and he said he’d suggest a hysterectomy. I absolutely don’t want anymore kids. I have three and it would be dangerous for me to have another one. I’ve had three sections, one placental abruption that nearly killed me, toxemia, and one baby with failure to thrive. Plus, my uterus is thin because of the scar tissue. If I got pregnant, I would have to make a very hard choice that I don’t want to make. So, more babies are 100% out. I have no attachment to this uterus of mine and it’s really just pissing me off at this point. 
I think I’ll have significant pain for two days tops, and that’s if I even get any significant pain. I really doubt that anything other than the gas will hurt all that bad and the gas should be out pretty quickly.
laddertipper
