The Hysterectomy Post-Op – Himani ’ s Story

I am 6 weeks post op now after getting a TLH (Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy) done. Have read tons of blog posts, Googled on medical information and also found answers to my never ending questions that I was never prepared for in the first place, before going in for the surgery. This is an attempt to combine as much information about the hysterectomy post-op as possible based on the above reads as well as my own experiences. First things first – its most important to find a good surgeon who can assess your situation and available options if any. In my case, after suffering with intense bleeding for about a year due to uterine fibroids, I was advised to have them removed. The medicines followed by GnRH analogue injections did not work. Now I had to choose between myomectomy (removal of fibroids from the uterus) or hysterectomy (removal of uterus itself), either laproscopically or otherwise. After meeting with 4 senior doctors and reading up the net, I figured that myomectomy is a more difficult surgical procedure and more importantly, does not offer any guarantee of the problem not re-occurring. Many people come back to the hospital later anyways for a hysterectomy (sometimes myomectomy gets converted into hysterectomy while you are on the operation table itself). So after carefully weighing my options, I chose to go in for the latter, which in my opinion, is the only one time permanent solution available as of date. Then, there was a choice of partial or total hysterectomy...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health hysterectomy stories recovery Source Type: news