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Location: Mansfield, Tx | Lisantwist - 2014-09-09 2:03 PM
RunningOnPaints - 2014-09-09 10:57 AM Lisantwist - 2014-09-09 12:32 PM After a lot of money and procedures, I have my hysterectomy scheduled for Oct 3rd!! I am nervous, major surgery and all that, but pretty pumped too! One more month of popping Vicodin, one more month of worrying if that will be enough, one more month of craving chocolate like I will never see it again (lets be honest, I will still crave chocolate, lol). I am so relieved to be done with it. Knowing what I know about my uterus now, I would be a nervous wreck for 9 months if I did get pregnant again. If we get crazy and decide we want another kid, there are plenty of them that need adopted. I had a partial.... took 1 ovary... ( at the end of June ) was out of work for 2 weeks.... came back slow.... you will be moody, prob. night sweats, but NOTHING compared to the H#LL you have been going through... 3 little scares (davinci hysterectomy )... and pain free... I wondered why it took me so dang long.... Good luck... Thanks ladies! I am having the DaVinci as well. Both ovaries will stay as long as they are healthy looking. I know someone else that had one removed and she said her hormones were insane for a week or so but she wouldn't trade it for anything. I am going to warn my husband beforehand to expect craziness. How long before you started riding again? After my c section years ago I was walking around about 4 weeks and took my hot horse to a game show at 7 weeks. I wasn't trying to be a super hero, it just didn't hurt. The Dr was very hesitant answering my question, lol. I am not 100% sure he has actually even seen a horse in person before, so....
I was trail riding at 6 weeks and that was still a little rough ... your insides need time to heal and go back in place... so I would prob. say atleast 6-8 weeks... ( Im very active and in good shape) but maybe if they don't have to take an ovary it maybe different. They didn't plan on taking mine either but found a Cyst on one and it just didn't look health so they took it.
I wouldn't plan a barrel race at 6 weeks... just in case... :-)
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Location: kellyville ok | I had one 4 years ago. Uterus and remaining ovary. Everything went extremely well, my doctor let me get back on a horse in 2 weeks with the stipulation that I could only walk for about a week and then start progressing in time and intensity. I did what she said and my horses thought I was nuts, but at least I was on them, they were getting exercise and so was I. I had the surgery end of April and Iwas back to competing in June. | |
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I am a urology nurse. I had worked in urology for the past 25 years. One of the biggest complaints we received from women who have had hysterectomies is incontinence... leaking bladder. When you remove the uterus, you are removing some of the vaginal support. You remove that support and the bladder loses some support, and the angle of the bladder neck changes. That's why you NEVER go into surgery lightly! There are always complication risks with any surgery. Incontinence is so common w/hysterectomies that many surgeons now recommend doing a "sling" procedure to "tie up" the bladder at the same time they do the hysterectomy.
As for the young gal who has had just one baby, I would be VERY surprised if you find a surgeon who will do a hysterectomy, or even a tubal on you at your age. THINGS DO CHANGE. Situations, relationships, all kinds of things can change your mind about wanting a baby in the future. With all the birth control options available, there is no reason to do something as radical as permanent birth control. The doctors know this, and will pull the trump card. Way too risky for them to get involved w/all the legal ramifications connected w/early sterilization.
We will be done having children after this second pregnancy is over and my son is born - not just because of choice, but also medical reasons.
I realize "things change" but my biology and anatomy probably won't. So one way or the other, I won't be having any more children after son #2 is born. My husband and I are completely at peace with this "decision". And I don't appreciate you insinuating that we have taken any of this lightly, and are just planning on sterilization "just because". There's a big difference between being young and being immature and irrational.
If we decide we would like to have a bigger family in the future, we are more than willing to adopt.
I need to support the urology nurse in what she said.
There are many complications with major abdominal surgeries, also major complications removing organs from the body. All organs play a vital role in the way the body works.
Having a hysterectomy depending on the type and what is removed you may develop bone loss, may develop osteoporosis later in life. Hormone replacement therapy has contraindications and can cause blood clots causing heart attack and stroke.
The scar tissue the surgical adhesions can still cause you pain, it generally is called phantom pain. Any person who has any type of surgery can experience chronic pain after at no fault of the doctor.
Bladder problems already discusses
Intimacy problems after hysterectomies some women cannot be intimate with their partner, this can be all psychological as some women report since they no longer have their lady parts they no longer feel like a woman. None of these women ever dreamed they would feel like this but did.
Pain during sexual intercourse, and achieving orgasms.
There is also the risk during surgery, the risk of death, stroke, paralysis, infection, other internal problems as surgeons have been known to nic the bladder or bowel and not realize it till the person is septic.
These are all risk factors that have happened to someone, there are many people that the above doesn't happen to, or in mild forms, but these are still risk factors a person contemplating a major abdominal surgery such as a hysterectomy should discuss with your doctor. Then weigh the pros and cons and make the right decision for you knowing all the potential side effects and risk factors | |
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Location: WA | missroselee - 2014-09-09 8:12 PM I haven't read through all the replies, but I will tell you that an ultrasound cannot and will not diagnose endometriosis. Only a lap surgery will.
Secondly, I think you said you already had the surgery scheduled? But if not, ask your doctor about Lupron. It is medical menopause so it can help you know if you really want to do a hysto. I know it has for me :)
Thanks MissRoselee! I don't have endometriosis, I have a bicornuate uterus. The risks associated with another pregnancy are too high for me to want to risk even accidentally getting pregnant. I know many have shared (on another thread) that they have the same condition and had multiple children just fine. My first was just fine. But I am a high anxiety person anyway, so if I accidentally got pregnant (We have no plans of more children), I would have the most hellish 9 months ever stressing over any small thing that could happen. That is a minor reason. The main reason I want the hysterectomy is the pain that doubles me over every month and makes it so I can't do anything. I've had that since I was 14. 20 years of it is enough. Surgery is already scheduled and I am very excited. I know it is not without side effects and it is a major surgery. But unless they see something serious with my ovaries, they are staying in. From all the info the specialist has so far gathered, he is confident my ovaries will stay and eliminate early menopause.  | |
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Location: WA | RunningOnPaints - 2014-09-10 6:26 AM Lisantwist - 2014-09-09 2:03 PM RunningOnPaints - 2014-09-09 10:57 AM Lisantwist - 2014-09-09 12:32 PM After a lot of money and procedures, I have my hysterectomy scheduled for Oct 3rd!! I am nervous, major surgery and all that, but pretty pumped too! One more month of popping Vicodin, one more month of worrying if that will be enough, one more month of craving chocolate like I will never see it again (lets be honest, I will still crave chocolate, lol). I am so relieved to be done with it. Knowing what I know about my uterus now, I would be a nervous wreck for 9 months if I did get pregnant again. If we get crazy and decide we want another kid, there are plenty of them that need adopted. I had a partial.... took 1 ovary... ( at the end of June ) was out of work for 2 weeks.... came back slow.... you will be moody, prob. night sweats, but NOTHING compared to the H#LL you have been going through... 3 little scares (davinci hysterectomy )... and pain free... I wondered why it took me so dang long.... Good luck... Thanks ladies! I am having the DaVinci as well. Both ovaries will stay as long as they are healthy looking. I know someone else that had one removed and she said her hormones were insane for a week or so but she wouldn't trade it for anything. I am going to warn my husband beforehand to expect craziness.
How long before you started riding again? After my c section years ago I was walking around about 4 weeks and took my hot horse to a game show at 7 weeks. I wasn't trying to be a super hero, it just didn't hurt. The Dr was very hesitant answering my question, lol. I am not 100% sure he has actually even seen a horse in person before, so.... I was trail riding at 6 weeks and that was still a little rough ... your insides need time to heal and go back in place... so I would prob. say atleast 6-8 weeks... ( Im very active and in good shape ) but maybe if they don't have to take an ovary it maybe different. They didn't plan on taking mine either but found a Cyst on one and it just didn't look health so they took it. I wouldn't plan a barrel race at 6 weeks... just in case... :- )
Yeah, I want to ride but am smart enough to know things need to heal so I don't do more damage. One of my horses is recovering from radial nerve damage, the other will be due a break. | |
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Location: WA | cheryl makofka - 2014-09-10 10:29 AM svincent - 2014-04-24 11:09 AM bingo - 2014-04-24 10:44 AM I am a urology nurse. I had worked in urology for the past 25 years. One of the biggest complaints we received from women who have had hysterectomies is incontinence... leaking bladder. When you remove the uterus, you are removing some of the vaginal support. You remove that support and the bladder loses some support, and the angle of the bladder neck changes. That's why you NEVER go into surgery lightly! There are always complication risks with any surgery. Incontinence is so common w/hysterectomies that many surgeons now recommend doing a "sling" procedure to "tie up" the bladder at the same time they do the hysterectomy. As for the young gal who has had just one baby, I would be VERY surprised if you find a surgeon who will do a hysterectomy, or even a tubal on you at your age. THINGS DO CHANGE. Situations, relationships, all kinds of things can change your mind about wanting a baby in the future. With all the birth control options available, there is no reason to do something as radical as permanent birth control. The doctors know this, and will pull the trump card. Way too risky for them to get involved w/all the legal ramifications connected w/early sterilization. We will be done having children after this second pregnancy is over and my son is born - not just because of choice, but also medical reasons. I realize "things change" but my biology and anatomy probably won't. So one way or the other, I won't be having any more children after son #2 is born. My husband and I are completely at peace with this "decision". And I don't appreciate you insinuating that we have taken any of this lightly, and are just planning on sterilization "just because". There's a big difference between being young and being immature and irrational. If we decide we would like to have a bigger family in the future, we are more than willing to adopt. I need to support the urology nurse in what she said. There are many complications with major abdominal surgeries, also major complications removing organs from the body. All organs play a vital role in the way the body works. Having a hysterectomy depending on the type and what is removed you may develop bone loss, may develop osteoporosis later in life. Hormone replacement therapy has contraindications and can cause blood clots causing heart attack and stroke. The scar tissue the surgical adhesions can still cause you pain, it generally is called phantom pain. Any person who has any type of surgery can experience chronic pain after at no fault of the doctor. Bladder problems already discusses Intimacy problems after hysterectomies some women cannot be intimate with their partner, this can be all psychological as some women report since they no longer have their lady parts they no longer feel like a woman. None of these women ever dreamed they would feel like this but did. Pain during sexual intercourse, and achieving orgasms. There is also the risk during surgery, the risk of death, stroke, paralysis, infection, other internal problems as surgeons have been known to nic the bladder or bowel and not realize it till the person is septic. These are all risk factors that have happened to someone, there are many people that the above doesn't happen to, or in mild forms, but these are still risk factors a person contemplating a major abdominal surgery such as a hysterectomy should discuss with your doctor. Then weigh the pros and cons and make the right decision for you knowing all the potential side effects and risk factors
Wow. Trust me, this was not a decision that was made with no education or without a lot of thought and consideration. Perhaps all that information was not directed at me, but this is not something I would enter into lightly. I am not a candidate for a freeze ablation and there is no guarantee that a heat ablation (which given my condition would be in the hospital anesthetized. When I was a teenager I would go in monthly for pain killer shots.... after awhile we found the right birth control to LIGHTEN the cramps, but never did I go a month without some kind of pain killer on top of it. After my son was born birth control had a much different effect on me and in addition to not controlling the cramps, I experienced horrible mood swingsthat made me not want to be at home with my son at times. I have discussed with multiple doctors. I have done my own research. I asked for opinions on here but trust me, the opinions of strangers on a chat forum aren't going to hold as much weight as my doctors and what medical research I did on my own. I ask on here to get anecdotal experiences which is more specific to my lifestyle than a Dr in the middle of the city can provide. | |
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Location: WA | I had my hysterectomy on the 3rd. While pre-op was sketchy (Much better after pumping me full of anti-anxiety drugs), I am SO happy all is done with. I was up and at 'em within a week. Turns out I did not have a bicornuate uterus, I had a full septum in my uterus plus add endoemtriosis on top of that. The endometriosis spread outside of my uterus as well. One ovary was black and full of crud that should not have been in there. And I only have one kidney, lol.
Tomorrow marks three weeks post-op. I have been lunging horses in the round pen (so I don't get jerked around on the end of a line), all three of us are totally bored. But it's good for them. At my 2 week check up I asked if I could ride a slow quiet horse at a walk and jog... he said two more weeks. I asked if I could pick things up and he said do whatever my body says is ok. So second week after surgery I was walking on the treadmill, this week I picked weights back up at the gym. Not my full weight, but so good to do something besides sit around. No pain at all.
So glad I did this..... now to fight the boredom for a few more weeks till I can race. | |
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Location: Here | Lisantwist - 2014-10-23 2:31 PM I had my hysterectomy on the 3rd. While pre-op was sketchy (Much better after pumping me full of anti-anxiety drugs), I am SO happy all is done with. I was up and at 'em within a week. Turns out I did not have a bicornuate uterus, I had a full septum in my uterus plus add endoemtriosis on top of that. The endometriosis spread outside of my uterus as well. One ovary was black and full of crud that should not have been in there. And I only have one kidney, lol.
Tomorrow marks three weeks post-op. I have been lunging horses in the round pen (so I don't get jerked around on the end of a line), all three of us are totally bored. But it's good for them. At my 2 week check up I asked if I could ride a slow quiet horse at a walk and jog... he said two more weeks. I asked if I could pick things up and he said do whatever my body says is ok. So second week after surgery I was walking on the treadmill, this week I picked weights back up at the gym. Not my full weight, but so good to do something besides sit around. No pain at all.
So glad I did this..... now to fight the boredom for a few more weeks till I can race.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I'm glad you had a good experience. My hysterectomy is scheduled for the 29th. I'm afraid I'll have a little (a lot) of anxiety too. Never been in the hospital except to have 2 kids. My Dr told me no riding for 4 weeks. That's the part that breaks my heart.  | |
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Location: Alabama | I had mine done on 9/11/14. I had tried BC, ablation, etc. Quality of life finally made be decide to do the surgery. Turns out I had adenomyosis. This caused my uterus to be larger than normal & put pressure on my herniated disc. My back is a lot better already!
My doc cleared me for walking my horse at 4 weeks. She told me to slowly build on that. At 5 weeks, I took her & did a small & slow obstacle course. Totally new for her, but she was 1st out of 25! We are going on our first trail ride this weekend (6 weeks).
I started working from home part time at 2 1/2 weeks. This is my first full week back. I'm blessed with a boss who let me come off of medical leave at 2 weeks & just charge vacation as I needed to.
This website has tons of information. They also start a thread for each week. It was SO helpful to read what others who had surgery the same week as I did were going through. I told my hubby that the good news was everything was normal... and the bad news... everything was normal. http://www.hystersisters.com/ | |
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Thanks ladies!! Me too!! I am Queen of Worst Case Scenarios so had about 100 ways figured out for how it would all go to hell in a handbasket. | |
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Location: WA | CYA Ranch - 2014-10-24 6:38 AM I'm glad you had a good experience. My hysterectomy is scheduled for the 29th. I'm afraid I'll have a little (a lot) of anxiety too. Never been in the hospital except to have 2 kids. My Dr told me no riding for 4 weeks. That's the part that breaks my heart.
My anxiety got the best of me. I am prone to panic attacks as it is but have figured out for the most part how to handle them. This got me. If you are having the DaVinci surgery, they put two IV's in because the machine is so big they can't get in to fix something shall it go wrong. So they do two just in case. I have crappy veins and it took 4 tries to get 2 IVs in. I melted down. I should have asked for anxiety meds as soon as I got there I was so worked up but after the first nurse tried 3 times and got one good one in, I was done. The second nurse came in, did the 2nd IV on first try and asked if I wanted some meds for it. I said, um, yes. NOW! They kept them up steady until I went under. It helped a ton. I was still freaked but it took me down a few notchs. Don't be afraid to ask for it up front if you are already nervous. Also, if you have bad veins for IVs, ask them to numb the area first, it goes A LOT better! I wish they would have done it sooner on me. It wasn't the pain so much as I could feel the needle moving aroundin my vein. Not good.\
Best of luck!! I hope my story didn't freak you out. I told you so you could prepare better than I did! Post on here after surgery how you are doing! | |
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Location: WA | afkatrina - 2014-10-24 12:18 PM I had mine done on 9/11/14. I had tried BC, ablation, etc. Quality of life finally made be decide to do the surgery. Turns out I had adenomyosis. This caused my uterus to be larger than normal & put pressure on my herniated disc. My back is a lot better already! My doc cleared me for walking my horse at 4 weeks. She told me to slowly build on that. At 5 weeks, I took her & did a small & slow obstacle course. Totally new for her, but she was 1st out of 25! We are going on our first trail ride this weekend (6 weeks ). I started working from home part time at 2 1/2 weeks. This is my first full week back. I'm blessed with a boss who let me come off of medical leave at 2 weeks & just charge vacation as I needed to. This website has tons of information. They also start a thread for each week. It was SO helpful to read what others who had surgery the same week as I did were going through. I told my hubby that the good news was everything was normal... and the bad news... everything was normal. http://www.hystersisters.com/
Yaaaay! Glad your back is better already! That is great! That website has a lot of info on it. Actually freaked me out reading it all, so I had to quit. Ladies moaning about surgical gas hurting months later, etc just got to me. So I just quit. I do like the weeks post surgery info. It is helpful. I am just glad I am bouncing back as fast as I am. Only another week before I am officially allowed back on. But he also said do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt. So I can pick and choice what I listen to, right? ;-) Just kidding, I don't want to delay barrel races anymore than I have to! | |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Lisantwist - 2014-10-24 3:29 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-10-24 6:38 AM I'm glad you had a good experience. My hysterectomy is scheduled for the 29th. I'm afraid I'll have a little (a lot) of anxiety too. Never been in the hospital except to have 2 kids. My Dr told me no riding for 4 weeks. That's the part that breaks my heart. My anxiety got the best of me. I am prone to panic attacks as it is but have figured out for the most part how to handle them. This got me. If you are having the DaVinci surgery, they put two IV's in because the machine is so big they can't get in to fix something shall it go wrong. So they do two just in case. I have crappy veins and it took 4 tries to get 2 IVs in. I melted down. I should have asked for anxiety meds as soon as I got there I was so worked up but after the first nurse tried 3 times and got one good one in, I was done. The second nurse came in, did the 2nd IV on first try and asked if I wanted some meds for it. I said, um, yes. NOW! They kept them up steady until I went under. It helped a ton. I was still freaked but it took me down a few notchs. Don't be afraid to ask for it up front if you are already nervous. Also, if you have bad veins for IVs, ask them to numb the area first, it goes A LOT better! I wish they would have done it sooner on me. It wasn't the pain so much as I could feel the needle moving aroundin my vein. Not good.\
Best of luck!! I hope my story didn't freak you out. I told you so you could prepare better than I did! Post on here after surgery how you are doing!
Thank you. It didn't freak me out at all. My friend had multiple surgeries 2 years ago and has veins that roll. She had terrible anxiety attacks. The one thing I have going for me is I have excellent veins!  | |
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | So glad everything worked out for you....and that you are feeling better..
I just found out that I will be going BACK in for surgery.... that my lovely 1 ovary that was left has attached itself to my cervical wall and now has a cyst on it... so, she is going in to try and try move Cyst and if she can't they ovary is coming out... UGHHHH
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