hello

I am 25, and was in a very similar situation to yours. I was never diagnosed with anything really... but became exhausted with the symptoms and lack of life quality. My hysterectomy was 1 week ago. This is a major decision, especially at a young age. Saying that, I finally stopped bleeding... it's amazing. When you reach a point where it has consumed your life, you must weigh out all options. Sometimes, there are no good solutions, only better options. My doctor anticipates my sex drive to increase, if for nothing else but I will feel better. I will no longer be taking hormones, so the thought of actually being myself for a while is unbelievable. The details of things are no need to post, but I wanted you to know I understand where you are. I am a second year medical student that actually had to take a year off because of all this crap. Well, anyway, if you have any more questions, please ask. You can send me an email at sherandagu@yahoo.com. Good luck, hope you find a solution!
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Hello, I am going to be blunt here. I would not advice a hysterectomy to any women unless it is cancer. When the uterus is removed a women can never have a orgasm vaginally ever again. The doctor no matter how good will damage the vaginal nurves. I have had a hysterectomy almost 3 years ago. I am in consant pain. I can't find a doctor who will tell me what is wrong. So I have done research on the surgery. Please don't consider a hysterectomy. If you have time go to a medical library and look up what a hysterectomy all involved and you will not like it. If you go to a medical library you can ask the librarien for help. You might be able to look up your problem and find out what it could be. I would also see many doctors. If you have to see 20 to find out your problem that is what I would do. Don't let a doctor convince you of a hysterectomy. You can have heart problem and more. HRT can't put back into the body what your natural body makes. You can also try a hompathic doctor. It could just be hormonal imbalance. There are many options out there that you don't need a hysterectomy. You just need to find the write doctor.
Valerie

Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, a reproductive, hormone responsive sex organ that supports the bladder and bowel. Whether the surgery is performed abdominally, vaginally, hands-on laparoscopically or laparoscopically by a gynecologist controlled robot, a hormone responsive sex organ is removed, the vagina is shortened, and there is a loss of support to the bladder and bowel. Women who experienced uterine orgasm before the surgery will not experience it after the uterus is removed.

When the uterus is removed women have three times greater incidence of cardiovascular disease than women with an intact uterus. When the ovaries are removed the incidence seven times greater.

There are 22 million women in the United States whose female organs have been surgically removed. Only about 2% were life saving and 98% were elective, a euphemism for unwarranted. Girls and women are not educated about the functions of female organs and they are not informed about the adverse effects of hysterectomy that have been well documented in medical literature for over a century.

Women who might ignore this promotion in an obviously commercial advertisement will be vulnerable to believing there are no adverse effects of the surgery. An article that makes hysterectomy sound simple and inconsequential is dangerous to women.

Read the new book THE H WORD, and find out what the medical literature documents about the well-known consequences, and what women report about the effects of hysterectomy on their bodies, their health and their lives, and read the Adverse Effects Data at http://www.hersfoundation.org.


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This article makes it sound like laparoscopy to perform hysterectomy is simple and inconsequential.

It describes the alleged benefits while not providing the well documented adverse effects. If you watch the surgery being performed on youtube (click on the video for physicians, not the sanitized patient version) you will quickly see that this is highly invasive destructive surgery.

Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, a reproductive, sexual, hormone responsive organ that supports the bladder and bowel. Whether the surgery is performed abdominally, vaginally, hands-on laparoscopically or laparoscopically by a gynecologist controlled robot, a hormone responsive sex organ is removed, the vagina is shortened, and there is a loss of support to the bladder and bowel. Women who experienced uterine orgasm before the surgery will not experience it after the uterus is removed.

When the uterus is removed women have three times greater incidence of cardiovascular disease than women with an intact uterus. When the ovaries are removed the incidence seven times greater.

The average weight gain is 25 lbs. in the first year after hysterectomy. The metabolism is slower after a hysterectomy and slower when the ovaries are also removed. So you have to eat less to not gain weight after the surgery, and it's important to have a diet high in calcium and to do weight bearing excercise, like walking or jumping rope.

There's an excellent video to learn about what your female organs are, where they are, and their life long functions. It's "Female Anatomy: the Functions of the Female Organs", at http://www.hersfoundation.org/anatomy