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The very first thing I want to say is that I am 2.5 weeks post-op, after a TAH w/BSO (including 25 staples) and I am writing this at work! I feel wonderful! What a difference! Honestly, this was the best decision I have ever made.
So, let me back up. I was diagnosed with endometriosis in the year 2000 when I was 18 years old. I decided to go to college anyway, instead of "have a baby" like everyone, including the doctors, urged me to do. That was a very difficult four years, and unfortunately the disease got the best of me and I did not graduate--actually, I had to leave school.
Before my hyst, I had a bladder repair, appendectomy, 3 laps, and most recently, in January of 2004, a laparotomy (open abdominal surgery) with removal of my presacral nerve (called a presacral neurectomy) and my ligaments (called a uterosacral ligament resection). Throughout all of this time I was on every medical treatment and painkiller available.
But nothing worked.
So, I went to a new doctor in October 2004. I explained my situation, he looked over my medical files and reports, and told me that I really had no other option but to have the hysterectomy. Keep in mind, I am only 22 years old. I had been hearing that since the beginning, but I held on to the hope that the treatments and surgeries would work. But then I realized that I cannot live like this anymore. I was like a prisoner in my own home. My bowels and bladder were affected so I never knew what would happen if I went out. Every morning I woke up knowing that sometime during the day, the pain would hit me. Or it would last all day. I ended up going to a pyschologist, as recommended by my doctor. That helped alot. I had to get through all these feelings of guilt, that I never had a child and now, I would never be able to.
So, I visited this site and got all the info that I could. I went in for my surgery on November 19, 2004.
This is where it gets interesting.
I was scheduled for a TAH with BSO. It was supposed to last for an hour. Three hours later, the doctor finally came to tell my mom and my boyfriend that it was over. He said that in 25 years of doing hysts on all types of women, he has never seen anything that bad. It was a mess in there. It had gotten so bad that he could not find my uterus or my ovaries (that's why the surgery took so long...he had to clean everything out just to remove my organs!) He also said that my intestines were wrapped around everything, so no wonder I had problems with that. So, he eventually found everything and along with my cervix (I also have stage 1 cervical cancer) he took everything out. And perhaps the most important thing that was found during the surgery was this: my Dr. told my mother "there was nothing anyone could do. There was no other way." That made me feel so much better. It also came to be that my organs themselves were severely damaged by the endo, that it was impossible for me to ever get pregnant anyway. So, I no longer have the guilt. It just wasn't meant to be.
I went in for surgery at 11:00 am, was back to my room sometime around dinner, passed by the liquid diet and straight on to solid foods because I was feeling so great. Now remember that I had a long dificult surgery and ended up with 25 staples...but I was only in the hospital for 24 hours....I left about 11:00 the next morning. And I was not pushed out by an ins company...I had to pay out of pocket for this. That night I was begging for them to take out my catheter and they didn't believe that I could actually go that soon, but it was bugging me, so eventually they took it out and i peed with no problem!
I am 2.5 weeks post op, back to work and feeling better than I have in five years. I am so happy its over and I get a second chance...it's a new beginning for me.
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