Frieda the fibroid, and TAH with ovaries removed experience – Donna’s story

The post Frieda the fibroid, and TAH with ovaries removed experience – Donna’s story appeared first on Hysterectomy Association. I knew I had a fibroid along with a phobia surrounding doctors, needles, hospitals etc. At around 41 I started experiencing pressure in the abdomen and a need to urinate more frequently, I ignored it. A routine medical picked up blood in my urine which culminated in an ultrasound and a cystoscopy which resulted in Frieda the fibroid being found. The medical team said it could be that I would make it to menopause and Frieda would begin to shrink, at this stage she was around 5cm. At 49 Frieda had started to make me look really bloated, twice in the morning after sleeping I was unable to urinate without running a warm bath and immersing myself in it. When I look back she was making me feel horrible, my life was horses and competing along with the hard physical work of mucking out stables etc. After visiting hospital and several internal examinations at 13cm now it was decided that she would be monitored. I don’t know if it was the examinations that set it off but within 24 hours I felt ill, ill like I had never felt before and I was unable to eat. I ended up in A&E and the doctor gave me antiobiotics and said I should contact gyneacology on the Monday because Frieda needed to come out, she was too big. I was given an injection of GNRH which would last six months and a hysterectomy was to be scheduled when Frieda the fibroid had s...
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