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Hysterectomy????
Topic Started: Feb 4 2011, 01:35:36 PM (1,858 Views)
moneypen20
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Anyone had one or have our nursing experts any advice? Been told I have to have one to remove a honking great Fibroid that they now believe is what's causing me the Anaemia. About to have yet another Gastroscopy (just because he can) and another Iron Infusion which I hate but imagine I'll need yet another prior to the op as the Haemoglobin levels have to be over 100 for the op. For those who are interested, it's apparently the size of a new born baby's head. He's hoping to do keyhole but if it won't work that way then it will change to abdominal. Poxy body :she:
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I haven't had one and I can't give advise but I can give you a :hug: and hope you have a quick recovery :flowers:
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:D Thanks hon. Using the public system so have a wait of 4-6 months. Hopefully I'll get a date at the beginning of the June/July school holidays, since being put on casual, I can't afford too much time off. I know it's daft but I've always kind of considered it an 'old woman' problem and I refuse to be 'old' :S I know loads of young women have to have it for various reasons, and I have absolutely no plans on more kids but it's final isn't it? :nosepicker: He's going to leave the ovaries which I thought was nice of him :blink:

Actually that's a thought, if the uterus has gone but the ovaries are still there and still releasing eggs, where do they go? What do the tubes open into? I really should have taken more notice in Human Biology 'O' Level :lol:
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They just pop out your bum like bullets :nosepicker:
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Snappy
Feb 4 2011, 02:07:16 PM
They just pop out your bum like bullets :nosepicker:
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The eggs are microscopic and just disolve. My MIL had a hyst, for the same reason as you. Her fibroid was so huge they had to cut her down the middle...the first week she was very ordinary, but after that she picked up. That said her general health was heaps better and she just looked well again IYKWIM!

I wish they'd do me...but I'm not bad enough apparently... :nah:

Good luck hun :hug:
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Sounds like a yuck thing to have to go through and I hate to think the size of keyholes he has in his house if you can fit a babys head through it!! But if it's going to make you better and be able to get back to your "old" self then it has to be good.

Sorry no experience to give you other than a couple of people I know who've had it done, one keyhole and one not and both wish they'd had it done years ago.
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Pen, sounds like a good idea if that is what is causing your anaemia - what took them so long to find that out though???

Thats a fairly big fibroid for keyhole surgery. The other options for hysterectomy are vaginal and abdominal. You will be advised to have six weeks of taking things easy after the op. I know a few people who have had it done, they had it vaginally which was great because it avoids an incision and scar on your abdomen.

Its good they are leaving the ovaries, because if they remove those too, you would go into full blown menopause.

As you are having so many probs with your anaemia, I think it would be in your best interest to have the op. Shame you have to wait so long though :no:
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Feb 4 2011, 04:59:25 PM
Pen, sounds like a good idea if that is what is causing your anaemia - what took them so long to find that out though???

Thats a fairly big fibroid for keyhole surgery. The other options for hysterectomy are vaginal and abdominal. You will be advised to have six weeks of taking things easy after the op. I know a few people who have had it done, they had it vaginally which was great because it avoids an incision and scar on your abdomen.

Its good they are leaving the ovaries, because if they remove those too, you would go into full blown menopause.

As you are having so many probs with your anaemia, I think it would be in your best interest to have the op. Shame you have to wait so long though :no:
He said something about not doing vaginally because it so embedded in the top of the uterus he doesn't want to go digging upwards towards the stomach (I think I've got that right) so he wants to go in keyhole near the tummy button - aggghhhhhh I don't do tummy buttons :sick: and then bring it out vaginally. He showed me three different types of fibroid, said one wasn't relevant but that I had a mixture of the other two which made it a bit complicated - go figure! Me? Complicated? :brickwall:

It wasn't picked up earlier because of the stomach ulcers doing their bit. Once those were sorted and my levels were still dropping, my doc then sent me for a scan which showed this alien growing and what with christmas and new year it's taken this long to get the appointment to see the guy and now 4-6 months to have the op.

I was a bit confused by my gastro guy on Wednesday though, when he said about another iron infusion and I asked what my levels were he said 10 but I didn't think Aus measured haemoglobin like that, because that sounds seriously serious! :dunno:
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Don't know if it's much help but I do know a couple of people who have had hysterectomys and after the inital recovery said they had not felt so good for years.
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I had a partial hysterectomy 2 yrs ago to remove a dermoid ( the size of a baby's head ) I was scheduled for keyhole but it was wrapped around one of my ovaries so they did the abdominal thing, dissolving stitches inside and glued on the outside, about 5 inches long, they shaved me a little and now it's grown back you can't see the scar ( if you can call it that ) at all, did 2 days in hospital and 6 weeks off work with a further 6 weeks no heavy lifting. It took me about 10 days to feel "like my old self" after 4 weeks I was itching to get back to work.
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FWIW, I'd be happy to have one :yes:

Hope you don't end up waiting too long Pen, and hope that in a year's time you'll be telling us it was the best thing you ever did.
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Six weeks off work? Sod that for a game of soldiers! If that's going to be the case, I don't want it done until the christmas holidays, don't get paid then anyway so wouldn't lose anything.

Thanks Anne, trouble is, now I know it's there and has to come out I'd like it done now. Whilst he was having a rummage he took my hand and placed it on this large lump and said that was it! Piggin hell, it felt huge! :ooer:

What's a dermoid? Off to google......
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Just think what a Slimcea girl you will look once you've given birth to that! By a year I meant complete and utter recouperation and back out the other side for months, enjoying the benefits.
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i had a friend who had a vaginal hysterectomy who said it was ok - she was off work for about 3 weeks. her hb level shot up like a rocket afterwards!!

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I didn't think you were allowed to drive for 6 weeks after an op as you wouldn't be insured, although that may have changed now. One of the girls at work had the op last year and was off for 6 weeks, it does seem the standard recovery time for this type of op.
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Woohoo. It's here now :curtsy:
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Did it have a trip round the world or something!? It went for ages!
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No it isn't, it's here :lol: Anyway if anyone doesn't want to read about my internal problems they can leave :D I need to find out how it all fits together and how they take it out. Lordy knows what Google will throw up - hope I don't :whistle:
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MP I have worked in a gynae ward in the past and in theatres and have seen this op. Basically they will do keyhole surgery through small cuts on your abdomen and cut and cautherise tubes, blood vessels etc. Once the uterus has been detached it will be removed vaginally. Your cervix and ovaries will be left in place and once you recover everything down there should look and feel normal :thumbsup:

Sometimes the op is done vaginally if there are no big fibroids etc. And sometimes a big scar in need to do the whole op abdominally, if keyhole and/or vaginal is not an option.

You will usually be in hospital for 3-5 days, would have a urinary cathether in for the first 12 hours or so, and this is a good thing as you wont need to worry about getting up and walking to the toilet. You will most like have a pca (patient controlled analgesia) iv in for pain relief for the first 24 hours or more too, and will have other oral pain relief as required and this should keep you comfortable and pain free. You will be up and walking around within 24 hours of surgery.
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Feb 10 2011, 12:38:20 PM
MP I have worked in a gynae ward in the past and in theatres and have seen this op. Basically they will do keyhole surgery through small cuts on your abdomen and cut and cautherise tubes, blood vessels etc. Once the uterus has been detached it will be removed vaginally. Your cervix and ovaries will be left in place and once you recover everything down there should look and feel normal :thumbsup:

Sometimes the op is done vaginally if there are no big fibroids etc. And sometimes a big scar in need to do the whole op abdominally, if keyhole and/or vaginal is not an option.

You will usually be in hospital for 3-5 days, would have a urinary cathether in for the first 12 hours or so, and this is a good thing as you wont need to worry about getting up and walking to the toilet. You will most like have a pca (patient controlled analgesia) iv in for pain relief for the first 24 hours or more too, and will have other oral pain relief as required and this should keep you comfortable and pain free. You will be up and walking around within 24 hours of surgery.
Thanks for that Mel. What I can't work out but I'm probably just being thick, is, the uterus, is it like a bag that's just attached to the rest of the body by muscle, fat, veins etc etc? It's weird, I 'get' kidneys and such like which just sit there attached but because the uterus is empty so to speak, it's obviously being held open (does this make sense or am I rambling :crazy: ) so when it's out, all the muscles, veins etc just end and there's a gap where the uterus was but I don't think that sounds right. My Human Biology teacher, who was a bitch, would be turning in her grave if she saw this post :whistle: :lol:
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The uterus is actually a very small organ, just like a bit of muscle, it obviously will stretch and grow in pregnancy. It is attached by the fallopian tubes to the ovaries on each side, so these tubes will be cut and sealed. At the bottom the uterus is attached to the cervix and this will be cut and also removed. Nowadays they dont always remove the cervix, unless you have cancer, but this will depend on your gynae doc, as some do remove the cervix. Either way everything will be sewn up at the top end of the cervix or vagina if cervix removed. All the arteries and veins cut will be caterised to stop bleeding. There will be a very small gap left, but really nothing noticeable as the uterus is really just a small ball of muscle.
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Feb 10 2011, 04:03:02 PM
The uterus is actually a very small organ, just like a bit of muscle, it obviously will stretch and grow in pregnancy. It is attached by the fallopian tubes to the ovaries on each side, so these tubes will be cut and sealed. At the bottom the uterus is attached to the cervix and this will be cut and also removed. Nowadays they dont always remove the cervix, unless you have cancer, but this will depend on your gynae doc, as some do remove the cervix. Either way everything will be sewn up at the top end of the cervix or vagina if cervix removed. All the arteries and veins cut will be caterised to stop bleeding. There will be a very small gap left, but really nothing noticeable as the uterus is really just a small ball of muscle.
OK, that's cool, thanks. He's leaving the cervix, just the uterus going. Usual thing, I asked a fair few questions, which considering it was a kind of bolt from the blue, was quite impressive :wink: It's only after it sinks in that these other queries come up and I'm not due to see him again until op time. I'll be seeing my GP at some point soon so I'll try and start writing questions down so I don't forget to ask her. So in effect the uterus has been at a stretch for all the time I've had this thing, it must be knackered :crazy:
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Wow Mel, its like our very own Biology lesson, thanks :thumbsup:
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Hope all goes well with the op tomorrow :flowers:
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Thank you. I'm only bricking it ever so slightly. This time tomorrow I'll be sleeping the sleep of a morphine head. Just not looking forward to the long recovery period. I'm not good at delegating so I'm just going to have to ignore soooooo much stuff. :whistle:
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Jun 15 2011, 11:58:19 PM
I'm going to be in your dreams looking after you. :kiss:
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good luck pen, you will be fine :flowers:
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best wishes for tomorrow x
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All the best for tomorrow xx
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