The book that is FREAKING me OUT!!!

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Originally posted by StargazerLilly "Your Guide to Hysterectomy, Ovary Removal, & Harmone Replacement" by Elizabeth Plourde. This book seems that women having hysterectomies is causing global warming and is responcible for all the starving children of the world!!

How could a hysterectomey cause global warming, could it be from all the hot flashes??? LOL, gimme a break.

Yeah, that must be it all the hot flashes! LOL!!!

Although the book was truly pro-uterus at all costs...it didn't "really" say hysterectomies are the cause of global warming...although it has given way for some laugher on my part here today!!!

Laugher is GOOD!

I need to check the list of titles posted here for recommended reading...I thought I wrote this one down from that list...didn't know you could buy them here...blush...

This is hopefully my last visit from aunt flo...I'm loosing so much blood today that I was thinking of checking the yellow pages for a dive through blood bank!!

sigh..

giggle...

Lilly

I wonder if the book mentioned the age or physical health of those who died? I am sure some women who had surgery had other very serious health issues but I bet that was not mentioned.
I had a cousin who almost died from having a tooth pulled....anything is possible but that does not mean it's common.

Yes some women do have problems after a hysterctomy but I know a couple who said they would keep their current problems as opposed to having all the pain and bleeding again.

I am close to two weeks away from my surgery and am not going to read anything else that is scary. I am having the surgery, I will ask God to take care of me , follow the Dr.'s instructions and do the best I can.
Good luck to you !

I've read the book being discussed here. While I don't care for the tone in which it's written, it does serve a purpose. It gets women who are considering a hysterectomy to think a little more carefully about the possible consequences of such a major surgery.

Most women who have hysterectomies do very well and go on to live long, happy lives. However, as with any other major surgery, some do not. It's not fun to think about and the odds of a poor outcome are low, but they don't seem that way if it's you that it happens to.

I agree that it's important to go into this surgery with eyes wide open, aware of all the possible outcomes, hopeful that the best will happen but prepared to live with whatever comes.


-Linda

that there are so many books on the negatives. Everything I found (except for this site) was against hysters....no need for one....you can try this and this and this.... I figured after 10 years I was done trying other options. When the new specialist I saw started discussing "quality of life" I could have hugged him.

This site has Sisters with good outcomes, not so great outcomes and some who are very unhappy. Quite often, they will tell you just why they feel how they do. It gives you many different pros and cons...so much more than just a book ever could. I also found that very reassuring that my doctor didn't just give me the sunny outcome details...he was honest about possible complications and how some of the more common ones could be handled.

As for losing my ovaries...Doctor and I had discussed all my options. He said that at 45, I should probably think about taking them, but if I wanted to keep them and they were healthy, they would be left alone. I trusted him with that decision and I planned on keeping them until I had a cyst rupture about 2 weeks before my hyster. :eyes: As soon as I managed to stand upright and get some of the pain to subside, I called the doctor and told him that we would be taking the ovaries. I haven't yet regretted it. I'm on Vivelle-dot with no PMS, no bloating, no mini-periods, no migraines (though it's not a cure for everyone's migraines).

The bottom line is that if a book or doctor is telling you all positives or all negatives, I'd be checking out other sources of information to get a balanced picture.

Good luck to you
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Cat

Hi stargazerlilly
If you didn't like "Your Guide...", stay away from "The Hysterectomy Hoax" by Dr Stanley West, too.

He starts out "You don't need a hysterectomy. It can do you more harm than good. Those are strong words, but the fact is that more than 90% of hysterectomies are unnecessary."

After reading the book, it appears to me that Dr West believes that ANY hysterectomy that isn't done in a LITERALLY life and death situation (e.g. cancer or uterine rupture)...is unneccessary. He "saw the light" (my expression, not his) after having to tell a 22-year old-woman that her uterus and ovaries had been removed, without her knowledge, for treatment of a benign ovarian cyst. She came into his office wondering why her period had never started again after she recovered from the surgery. This patient, too, had just put herself in the hands of what turned out to be an untrustworthy doctor without getting a 2nd opinion or asking many questions.

Dr West isn't as much of an alarmist as "Your Guide..." sounds like. He's got a valid point that there are a lot of other things that can be tried first, and may indeed succeed. But to take the attitude that women should have to put up with "crime scene" bleeding, incontinence, agonizing cramps, etc etc etc, or should have to jump through every single alternative-treatment hoop before deciding that "enough is enough", is, I think, just as extreme a stance as, "The uterus is nothing but a baby carriage and if you're not using it for that you're better off without it".

I have to admit that reading some of these materials has convinced me to try more of the alternatives first...when I was first diagnosed (with fibroids causing heavy bleeding and clots), I thought, "well, I'm 48, I'd be nuts to have a child at my age, especially a first child, even if I was getting married next week (which I'm not). What do I need a uterus for anyway, especially if it's going to make such a nuisance of itself? Why don't I just have it out and get this bother over & done with? I've got sick leave to burn, and the work load at the office is lighter than it's been in years. Maybe this is all happening now for a reason." I figured I could get along without my uterus as well as I get along without my wisdom teeth (which I haven't missed for a minute since they were pulled 30 years ago)! Sometimes I even took almost a "go ahead, make my day" attitude toward the ol' uterus: "just give me one good excuse and you're outta there". I'm still worried that the treatment (BCP) will work now and stop working later at a much less opportune moment for surgery than the present, but that's another story.

Reading books & such that are less than positive *has* convinced me that the uterus is not quite as expendable as impacted wisdom teeth. I will try to keep it, and certainly would not "throw out the baby with the bathwater" by having healthy cervix and ovaries removed at the same time, if it comes to a hysterectomy in the end.

I would probably not be so tolerant of these negative authors if I was actually scheduled for surgery and needing to keep a positive frame of mind! And I think both of these authors would better have invested their energy in getting the scalpels out of the hands of bad doctors like the ones those two patients were victimized by.

Just my worth,

cookie1956

When I started looking for info I picked up a book on dealing with women's problems naturally at a used book store. My line of thinking is if it seems to be helping you than it can't be bad, and i wanted all the info. Well I started reading on fibroids, and got to the line "women who chose not to have children often find their bodies creating them for them in the form of fibroids" I chucked the thing in the trash. I don't even remember the title. I chose not to have children, and I do feel a little loss over that sometimes, even though I know it was the right decision for me. I didn't need something making me feel worse about it. I read everything I could get my hands on and I took to heart things that rang true for me and would help me. The rest I left alone.