Dear ladies: don’t be ashamed of having a hysterectomy. We take out a piece of ourselves that was damaged. I had a hysterectomy 10 days ago because of severe adenomyosis. My uterus was very sick, and the pathology report confirmed it. I don’t feel incomplete, I feel relieved. I’m still recovering and in pain. My hysterectomy was abdominal and I stayed at the hospital for two nights. Good luck to anyone going through this procedure and I wish a speedy recovery for you!
Mine is coming up. I am really discouraged that posts from the medical community still say 2 weeks down time but I can't find a single woman on any social media platform that was "recovered" in two weeks. Looks like the 2 weeks is just when to stop taking pain meds.
Wow Lisa, I'm so sorry that you had to endure all of that! Thank you for sharing your story. I am scheduled to have my Laparoscopic Hysterectomy due to fibroids on January 7th. I am very nervous about the recovery. I have never had surgery. The unknown is the scariest part
I totally experienced itchiness after a cesarean. I could not stop feeling like my skin was covered in ants. Wow, Lisa, I am so glad you shared this story. When you get a scary diagnosis there isn't much time to consider options.
This was so helpful, thank you for your honesty - I underwent a hysterectomy 4 weeks ago and I was discharged the next day despite vomiting on the evening of the operation and through the night (I think I had an adverse reaction to the morphine they gave me post op). The day nurses were very unhelpful and as soon as I could do a wee, they wanted me gone.
The vomiting is (likely) because of the reaction to the anesthesia. I've had a few surgeries and it only took after the first one to find out that vomiting after receiving anesthesia is common ---and horrible. WHY the Anesthesiologist doesn't say this prior, I don't know; but ever since that first episode I experienced, I ask for a pill/rx so I'm not vomiting afterwards. It's an EXPENSIVE pill, but worth it.
I’m 2 weeks out and was in hospital 5 days and couldn’t urinate for nine days. My skin started itching day 10-11 so glad to hear this mentioned. Agree - worse than giving birth.