Pause for thought, Caroline ’ s story

Hello, I thought I should write to you with my experience. I want to reach out to people such as me prior to their ops. Whether I would have read or thought twice then I do not know……but here goes… I had a huge fibroid, along with several smaller ones……infact the surgical team did agree with my reference to my “alien” because it did look like an alien!!….melon sized with smaller add ons. I did have some endometriosis too. So the best option was a total hysterectomy (womb, ovaries and cervix). I could have had other options which were pharmaceutically treated such as induced temporary menopause etc etc. I was enticed by the “quick fix” of “everything out” option.  It also cured the contraception issue. But the operation was horrible…..I awoke in agony and it didn’t subside, even with morphine and other drugs.  I was encouraged to get moving but the pain was horrendous….I tried, but nausea got the better of me, so laying flat was better.  The next day I got rushed back into surgery, after several black out moments with the resus team in attendance, I had lost 2 litres of blood into my body.  The clotted internal blood had to be flushed out. The pain afterwards was just as severe…..your colon and internal organs do not like being touched….they rebel with pain!! So eventually after 5 days I went home!! Recovery was slow.  I was a fit 47 year old who went to the gym and regularly went Spinning so I ...
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