Help me please worried about sex and weight gain after partial

I was diagnose with adenomyosis...my lower abdominal area is huge!!! My last period was awful and so I am going for my first consultation to have a partial hysto...I want to keep my cervix and ovaries.. I am just so scared about sex...and weight gain. I have been losing weight everywhere but my stomach..hoping it will help...Any suggestions?

The surgery may help in the ab area - just be prepared that while you are recouperating you may get what is called "swelly belly" if you overdo it. I wouldn't let yourself worry about weight gain right now - concentrate on getting the treatment you need and taking care of yourself while you recover. I haven't gained any weight since my surgery in Nov - continued to lose on WW - but you can bet the first few weeks after I wasn't "dieting". I wasn't overeating but I didn't deprive myself of anything I may have really wanted...There wasn't much though since I was already in the healthy eating mode - does that make sense?
As far as sex - I know we are all different so it may not be the same for you when you have recovered - I have good days and "so-so" days as far as pleasure is concerned. It feels different inside now, but it's not necessarily bad different. I can orgasm just fine with external stimulation so I know stuff works - and sometimes we do that first for me and then he gets to finish with his the regular way. Does that make sense? Keep us posted on what the Dr says!

I think some gain wt post op from sitting around eating, and you can control that. Otherwise it with no ovaries, related to hormones or lack of them. You should be OK there. A lot of women with sexuality changes (not all bad) attribute them to lack of the cervix. Hard to say if you'd notice a change, but things can be different. In the end you have to look at what you'll gain from the surgery and decide if that's right for you. Good luck with your decision.

I had adenomyosis and I have lost weight steadily since my surgery. 15lbs in 3 and a half weeks, and I hear alot of others with similar stories. Even with the post op pain, its not that same horrible pain I had monthly and i know at the end of recovery this will be the best thing I ever did. I can't speak for the sex part yet, I know the urge is present, I just cant act on it yet

i also had a big abdomen, which has shrunk alot since surgery... i still get "swelly belly" in the evening, but its no where as big as it was pre-hyst... i've lost 18lbs since surg 9 weeks ago and i'm not trying... i had everything removed and have been very pleased about sex... my O's are different, but not a bad different...

Thanks guys.....I have been stressing so much that my hair has been falling out....crying all the time but I am so tired of hurting and when I eat certain foods I swell up and hurt too...not sure what food though. I will you posted..trying to get appt sooner july is too far..

I'm scared of swelly belly. I already have a swollen lower abdomen from the fibroids. I look about 4 months pregnant despite exercising 4 times a week. The sex thing doesn't worry me as much as it can only get better than it is right now. I have cervical pain and can't tolerate internal sex at all.

Kward- I had adenomyosis and alot of preop swelling and bloating and swelly belly is no worse than that and when it's not swollen my tummy looks flatter than before so I know there's a light at the end of this tunnel. Your current swelling is perm, swelly belly is not, look at it like that. Also do you have confirmed fibroids? The size if those will take away alot of your swell immediately. And the cervix pain you mentioned, I had that too, getting a pap made me nauseaus it was so uncomfortable and sex was extremely painful, I can't speak for after yet but I know that pain before, I was glad to get rid of my cervix

Hi everyone.....These past few days have been horrible...I had just came off my monthly which of course very painful....Had sex twice since then and it was painful....I am so upset...I wasn't doing that yet and now sex is awful:

So far I have lost a few pounds, and I am 2.5 weeks post, on HRT. My pants are hanging off of me. I did not realize how much of a giant belly I had before from enlarged uterus due to fibroids. It surprises me when I look in the mirror and have a normal looking stomach.

No sex yet, but the interest in the possibility is definitely coming back. I try not to dwell on it too much for obvious reasons.