Friday, August 19, 2011

How will I feel when I come round from having my hysterectomy (LAVH)?

I know I'll be sore, nauseous, emotional and tired etc because this will be about my 12th surgery so I'm familiar with how surgery and anaesthetia feel, but how will I feel specific to the hysterectomy? Will I feel different inside (once the initial pain has subsided and I'm getting normal feeling back)? Does it hurt when the things around where my uterus was adjust to it not being there anymore? Is there anything that will seem weird that would be helpful to be aware of? They're hoping to leave my ovaries but it might be that once my gynecologist has seem them he might not be able to- will I feel menopausal i.e different to being not menopausal immediately (I know from a hormone perspective I'll have had a surgical menopause and will physically post-menopausal immediately) or does it take a few hours/days to kind of kick in in terms of actually feeling it? I have loads of info on LAVH so I know what I should expect, I'm really wondering more about what it's like in reality. Any tips or advice anyone doesn't mind sharing would be very gratefully received. BTW I'm 31 and have not had children if that's relevant, I'm having the hyst because of severe endo and have had several 2nd opinions as my gynecologist and another one I've seen have discussed me with specialist endo and laparascopic surgeons so I know I have no choice and that it's the right thing to do and I'm as happy as I can be in the cirstances about that. Thanks very much in advance.

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