Please help with a decision!

Hi everyone,
I am having my hyster done on the 13th. I have to make a decision before that though.
I have a 10cm fibroid on my uterus, my uterus is enlarged. i have suffered from bad periods all my life. I have been spotting/bleeding since 1/20. I am very bad with anesthesia, I have a very bad time coming out of it and I have chronic nausea and vomiting for 24 to 48 hrs after the surgery.
My Dr has given me two choices and I can not decide one over the other.
i can have a laproscopic with general anesthesia or surgery with a spinal. Both of my ovaries are fine, right now, but I may have them removed.

Please help me! I am so confused.
Thanks for listening and reading about my delimma.

I am so glad I have found this site it has been a Godsend.
I just ordered my Hyster Sister book and pillow yesterday. I can be well prepared with all the invaluable information I have found here.

Peggy

The doc is in there anyway, take out everything. That way you never have to do it again. If you can financially do the the full surgery, and are concerned about the anethesia, which you are that is why you wrote, then I think you should opt for the full surgery.

Thanks for the quick response!!

That is exactly what I am thinking. However, the pain and recovery will be a lot worse.

Any info on getting a spinal? I am a little apprehensive about that too.

Thanks,
Peggy

That is what I want. I am scheduled for April 26. Have my pre visit April 13. So, I have to ask him all about those options at that time. But, I do know I want a spinal and I already know I have to get the full cut. So, 6 weeks of lounging. I think I can handle it.

Wow, you are quick!!

Why did you decide on a spinal? I am leaning towards that too.

Peggy

I tend to get sick after general. Others I know did the spinal and praise it. So it was side effects and speed of getting that fuzzy feeling out. There is no fuzzy head feeling with the spinal.

I would be careful ladies of the spinal, the only reason I say so it has caused me migrains for 14 years. I had epideral for all three of my kids and ended up with a Spinal headache and I use to get them alomost every day. Go under Resources click anesthesia and it has the whole artical there. A lot of people have been fine with it though, also you can feel your body at all for hours and it is really a weird feeling.

I am one of the ones that are fine with it, at least the 3 times before. I had an epidurhal with the first c-section. It was horrible, bad anest. Couldn't find the spot and stuck me 7 times, hitting nerves every single time. Had spinals with the other 2 and did just fine, never any headache, no pain going in either. I know they say you have lay flat for so many hours afterwards , but you are numb in the legs, it's not like you are going anywhere! I would no way no how let a resident do it, but I trust my Dr. and my first choice is spinal with sedation. If they find cancer, I give them permission to turn it in to a general. I just pray they don't. I am thinking I am going to have both ovaries out and be done with it. I just want all this gyno stuff taken out and pray I can find HRT that will balance my moods and symptoms. I'm so tired of this up and down stuff. It's all so hard to decide. I can't decide what to make for dinner or what to wear, this is beyond me some days! I'm so glad for this site. We have to make our own choices but it is so nice to hear from the ones that have already made the choices.

Good luck with your decision making. You do have a few weeks and you may change your mind a few times but that is one of the very few things good about the wait time. And I mean VERY few things! LOL

Sandra

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Originally Posted by Sandbox49 I am one of the ones that are fine with it, at least the 3 times before. I had an epidurhal with the first c-section. It was horrible, bad anest. Couldn't find the spot and stuck me 7 times, hitting nerves every single time. Had spinals with the other 2 and did just fine, never any headache, no pain going in either. I know they say you have lay flat for so many hours afterwards , but you are numb in the legs, it's not like you are going anywhere! I would no way no how let a resident do it, but I trust my Dr. and my first choice is spinal with sedation. If they find cancer, I give them permission to turn it in to a general. I just pray they don't. I am thinking I am going to have both ovaries out and be done with it. I just want all this gyno stuff taken out and pray I can find HRT that will balance my moods and symptoms. I'm so tired of this up and down stuff. It's all so hard to decide. I can't decide what to make for dinner or what to wear, this is beyond me some days! I'm so glad for this site. We have to make our own choices but it is so nice to hear from the ones that have already made the choices. Good luck with your decision making. You do have a few weeks and you may change your mind a few times but that is one of the very few things good about the wait time. And I mean VERY few things! LOL Sandra

Thanks for your input.

I have been changing my mind like the wind. I can't decide, i have heard good and bad about both. I just can't make up my mind, I almost wish I didn't have a choice.

Good luck to you and I look forward to hearing from you after your surgery.

Thanks,
Peggy

Peggy -

You need to do what you are most comfortable with and what is the safest thing. I have struggled with the anesthesia thing for years. Best of luck.