Wish I’d a hysterectomy years ago! – Sharon’s Story
At the age of 40 I was diagnosed with fibroids. A scan confirmed I had about 10 of them, the largest was almost the size of a rugby football, the others between the size of a tangerine and an orange. All of them subserosal so my uterus was quite deformed.
As I had no intention of having children, the mistake I made was not opting to go for a hysterectomy immediately. Instead I thought I would try embolization, mainly because I was self employed and taking between 2 – 3 months off work was not cost effective for me, so a 2 week recovery post-embolization was a lot more appealing. I had it done – not a pleasant procedure I have to say – took 2 weeks off (but had pangs of pain for about a month), and off I went to wait for them to shrink and then disappear.
Unfortunately, the size of my abdomen didn’t shrink that much and 3 years after the procedure I started to get some very strange symptoms. Severe indigestion (something I had never suffered from before), bloating, would fill up quickly when I ate and I was absolutely knackered by the end of the day. I went to the GP who took some blood for a CA125 test and waited to hear if I had ovarian cancer – it was the worst 2 days of my life.
Thankfully the tests came back negative, so I had another scan to check how well the embolization had worked.. It had stopped working and the big fibroid hadn’t shrunk that much and I now had more. Hysterectomy was the only option.
I researched the various option...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Your Stories bilateral salpingo oophorectomy embolisation endometriosis fibroids laparascopic hysterectomy Source Type: news
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