Emotional Roller Coaster – Susan ’ s Hysterectomy Story

Hi to you all, I don’t know where to start really, I’m not sure if I have enough space here to tell you the whole story but I will try. Okay I’m 44 years young, married to my wonderful hubby for 17 years but we’ve been together for 27 years! I can hear your brains calculating how old we were when we got together…well I’ll tell you, we were both 17 years old. Yes babies ourselves really. I went on the pill once we started to have a sexual relationship, I really didn’t want to be a young mum, so many girls where I grew up were all falling pregnant and then being left on their own with the baby and I knew that wasn’t what I wanted, plus I didn’t want to disappoint my lovely mum dad. By the age of 20 I was experiencing excruciating pain on and off, but thinking back this pain had been with me for many years before that, before I had even started to have sex, my mum took me to the doctors on a few occasions and he just used to say it was ovulating pain and take painkillers, which I did, the pain passed and then I would forget about it until the next time. But as I got older this pain was getting worse. I had private medical cover through my place of work so i went back to my GP and demanded I was seen by a specialist. I saw a gyne in London who did a laparoscopy and he told me I had terrible scarring, cysts on ovaries and I would need too be opened up to sort this out. How did this happen, why did this happen to me, but this w...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health adhesions pain pelvic inflammatory disease Source Type: news