A runner ’ s hysterectomy recovery – Jo ’ s story

At 47, for eighteen months I’d been suffering excruciating pain every time I went to the loo. Sometimes, the pain was so horrendous that I would find myself subconsciously stopping myself midflow. Other things began to happen too; my constipation that I had suffered for many years at the time of my period became a permanent problem and I had a constant pain in my left groin that seemed to worsen when I sat for any length of time. An internal scan and an MRI scan drew a blank. Thankfully I had a fantastic doctor who was determined to get to the bottom of my pelvic pain. Eventually, a diagnostic laparoscopy revealed the problem; I was suffering from adenomyosis and my enlarged uterus was displacing my bladder and bowel. The only solution was a hysterectomy. Needing a hysterectomy came as a complete shock; it was something that I had always associated with conditions such as fibroids and heavy periods. My periods were so light that they lasted for little more than a day. The next part of my story comes with a sanity warning: only research about your hysterectomy if you are prepared to accept what you might see and read. I was never off my laptop once I knew my fete and made the huge mistake of watching the videos! As a result, by the time that I went for my consultation with my surgeon, I was adamant that the only type of hysterectomy that I was having was a TLH. Nothing, as far as I was concerned, was coming out ‘down below’. My surgeon however had other ideas...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health adenomyosis hysterectomy stories laparoscopic hysterectomy Source Type: news