do you have to sign the consent form ?

January 23, 2004

Hi,

Ijust heard that you do NOT have to sign a consent form for a hyster. before a

myo..... My RE told me I had to sign it....

I suppose they want you to sign in the rare event cancer was found ....

That way they are covered.

However, I wonder where I could go to find out if it is possible to gracefully

get around this,...the OTHER important issue here, is that i am sure it would

greatly ANGER my doc. if I did not sign it, and if I have conflict with my doc,

it will affect everything,... right ? I feel pretty darn confident in his

willingness and ability to give me a myo. Why ? 1) he told me if it were his

wife, she's 40, that she would want a myo., 2) he knew that sexual function can

be lost with a hyster. for some women, and he told me, " I can't give you back

your sexual function once it's gone'......3) he said he does a GAZILLION myo's,

and he's taken out basketball size fibroids from younger women, 4) he knows I

had found TWO other myo. specialists who were happy to give me a myo., 5) I told

him I would rather KEEP my fibroids than LOSE my uterus....pretty strong

statement....,6) I offerred him the 23 page ABC News report on the negative

consequences of hysterectomy, which compared hyster. to male castration !!!, 7)

He knows I am a member of an online chat group about fibroids, and I have

learned alot about alternatives to hyster...8).my endometrial biopsy came back

fine, 9), he called to give me good news that my hematocrit is 40 - NORMAL, and

told me to call and schedule surgery !........SO should I worry about signing

that consent form with all I have just told you ? I want to have a positive

experience with my doc, and I think if I don't sign, I will be butting heads

with him at a time that I want him on my side....what do you think ?

Thanks.

January 24, 2004

Hi ,

Or course he said you have to sign. But we know better, right?

Why is this doc insisting that you sign for a hysterectomy?

Did you ask him why? What did he say? Check out Carla's book " Sex,

Lies, and the Truth About Uterine Fibroids " . It's all in the block

on page 67 entitled: " I Said Myomectomy ---- Not Hysterectomy! " .

Gerri

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