21 Days Post Op and No Pain – Samantha’s Story

Hi ladies, I thought i would share my story with you as I feel I am extremely lucky and for those of you who are worrying just like I was, it’s not always pain and more pain. Unlike most of you ladies my journey to my hysterectomy was a bit of a whirlwind and I did not have to go through years of suffering and waiting. I am 46 and thought everything was fine until July 2012 when i was rushed into hospital with really heavy bleeding. I was kept in overnight and after having a scan was told that I had fibroids and a bulky uterus and at the time I didnt know what they meant. I was sent home with transemic acid tablets which I was told to take as soon as my period started to help control the bleeding these worked great and in fact stopped the bleeding within a day. Then in October I went to the toilet one morning and found I had this large lump poking out of me, thought I was turning into a lady boy and was scared stiff. I went to the doctors where my worries weren’t helped when she said she had never seen anything like it. So, off to the hospital I went where the consultant told me it was a fibroid on a stalk that had prolapsed through my cervix. He said it was approx 8cm long and 6cm in diameter. When I got to the hospital it had gone back inside me slightly. The consultant said that my uterus was also the size of someone 22 weeks pregnant and that the best thing, having also looked at my previous scan results, would be to have a total abdominal hysterectomy. Slight...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Fibroids Your Stories pain recovery hints wind Source Type: news