Hysterectomy

When Dooyoo reactivate their suggested items feature, I will move this opinion! This opinion is about something I thought long and hard about. As soon as I found out that my second child was to be a son, I decided that there were to be no more additions to our family, one girl and one boy, perfect. So, after having lengthy talks with my partner he agreed that if I wanted to be sterilised, then that was what I should do. I will warn you now that this may be a lengthy opinion, but I simply wanted to get all the facts that I possibly could to help anyone who may be considering sterilization as an option. It has been three and a half years since ...

When I went into hospital for my hysterectomy I kept a diary of what happened and how I felt as a friend of mine was due to have the same operation. I have decided to submit this account in order to try and help anyone else undergoing the same operation. I had an ovary removed a few years earlier and they would not do a hysterectomy then as I might still decided to have children. I knew I wouldn’t but they thought I wasn’t old enough, at 35 or so, to make that decision. I suffered from fibroids from just after the time of the first operation and was eventually given the opportunity to have a hysterectomy. I jumped at the chance. I ...

At 42 I always thought that hysterectomy was an operation for much older women, until I was told that I should consider having one myself. I have some big fibroids (benign tumours on the uterus) and for a few years I have lived with the nuisance value of: heavy periods, pain, backache, fatigue and anaemia. This condition is very common and is one of the most usual reasons for a woman to have a hysterectomy. I was shattered and heart broken and couldn't even get my head round the idea of such a major operation. I bought the excellent book "Hysterectomy and the alternatives" by Jan Clark (Vermillion). In the contacts' section at the back of the ...