A&P Repairs

This probably isn't the right board for this but I just had A&P Surgery. I was scheduled for a Hyst. but changed my mind about a week before because I felt it wasn't necessary. I was only doing it cause I felt my family was complete. I am 99% sure I don't want anymore but haven't been to my 6 wk. checkup to ask my Dr. if it would be a bad idea to become pg agin. I'd really like to hear that I shouldn't have anymore kids! All I know is I don't want to go throught this again. Recovery has been long for me. No pain anymore but I still have a catheter (4 wks. later) and have bowel problems and such. And still bleeding. If anyone has had this surgery w/o a hyst., what was your recovery like and wer you advised not to get pg again? Just wondering.

Angela

Dear Angela,

I'm glad you're recovery is going along well. You might find the answers to your question at this website: http://pages.prodigy.com/prolapse.html/

Most of the women there have opted to NOT have a hyst (each for their own very valid reasons), and they would know more about the repair procedures you had and what to expect in the way of pregnancy afterwards...

I am sending huge cyberhugs your way

In 1998 I had a bladder suspension thru the abdomen and an A & P repair for cystocele and rectocele....without the hysterectomy. Not because I wanted more children, but because I felt it was the right thing for me to keep my body intact. I have never had any problems that way. My gyn wanted me to learn to self cath and removed the foley the next day. Whenever I sat on the "hat" at the hospital(the container they use to measure urine"my stitches around the back of the vagina hurt so much I was unable to pee and I had so much pain I couldn't self cath. So I got a bladder inf and had to go home with a foley. I had the foley for another week, but when it was removed I was able to go okay. The pain from the A & P repair though, was the worst. It took weeks until I could control my urine flow and did not have pain from the a&p repair. Now I have the uterine prolapse and there is no urogynocologist within 100 miles. No gyn around here will consider the uterine suspension and I talked with the insurance about it and they won't pay. So I guess I am looking at a hyster, probably Apr 26...so may I should have had it done in the first place. Hope you are feeling better by now. You are not alone.