Fitness, the most important factor before my hysterectomy – Vibeke’s Story

My journey of sheer hell started when I was 47 years old. Having had quite light periods all though painful most of my life, my body suddenly turned on me and started bleeding severely. Before I had control and knew when it was coming pretty much to the date, to bleeding ¾ of the month which ranged from spotting to huge clumps of blood coming out and sometimes shooting out of me which really was quite scary. I went to look into what I could do and it appeared that everyone just thought that having a Hysterectomy was the answer. Having read some horror stories about this I was not ready to travel down this road. It was found that I had huge fibroids (the size of a 14 week pregnancy) so after 3 years of trying the following: A hysteroscopic resection of fibroids Ferrosig Injections (iron) Taking Progesterone tablets (trying to stop the bleeding) Vaginal Progesterone Reading myself confused on what to and what not to eat to shrink the fibroids It finally came to the crunch when I bleed so much I ended up in Hospital for a 4 bag blood transfusion, and was warned that I was sitting on a time bomb. So I was cornered had nowhere to go from here but give in. So I booked in and being severely claustrophobic regarding hospitals, even visiting, I booked in with only a 1 week warning, as I could not afford to lose any more blood. At this stage I was a mess severely anemic and struggled with breathing even walking up some stairs, which in my profession as a Personal Trainer is not a go...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Your Stories fitness hysterectomy recovery Source Type: news