I never thought I ’ d be awake during my hysterectomy – Jill ’ s story

Hi I’m 53 years old and have three children, here’s my hysterectomy story. After giving birth to my second and third children in 1999 and 2005, I had problems with my pelvic floor and had received NHS physio sessions to improve it, which it did a bit. In my late forties I took up running after discovering the NHS Couch to 5K and loved it.  Unfortunately, my prolapse got worse and I went to the doctors as most of the time I could now feel a bulge in my vagina. I had to stop running and even walking was quite difficult and uncomfortable. I was lucky enough not to have bladder leakage as a result but it was regularly difficult to go to the loo without pressing on the prolapse to move it out of the way. I was referred to Guy’s Hospital in London where a fantastic nurse fitted me with pessaries and they were wonderful – I felt myself again as I no longer had the awful dragging, uncomfortable sensation. However, the joy was short-lived as over a few months they kept falling out: usually while I was on the toilet. I was advised that if pessaries weren’t working, the only other option was a hysterectomy. I agreed to this as I was peri-menopauusal and was fed up with my prolapse affecting my daily life. On the day before my operation on 17th July at St Thomas’s in London, I had an ultrasound scan where they measured my uterus and told me I had a fibroid in it. On the day of the surgery I met the anaesthetist who said that he would be giving me a sp...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health anaesthetic fibroids hysterectomy stories prolapse Source Type: news