Re: update and question

[Guest guest]

,

I don't know the answer to conditions other than cancer that would

warrant a hyst. However, you should have your questions answered

before the pre-op setting. Make sure you and your doctor are clear

about what you and he consider " complications " . Be very specific with

him. That way there should be no suprises. If cancer is the only

" complication " you would consider a hysterectomy being necessary make

sure the doc knows this and in this case anything else he finds he

should just sew you up.

Good luck with your decision and your surgery.

Carmon

if the doc asks me in the pre-op what I would like him

to do..... if he found specific complications at the time of surgery ?

I do not feel prepared to know what to say.... I assume I should tell

him to sew me back up, ....unless it was cancer...? right ? Are

there any other conditions that would warrant a hysterectomy besides

cancer ?

[Guest guest]

, I think something like this really depends on the individual

woman and her doctor. I felt very strongly about retaining my

uterus, and my GYN understood that completely. Minutes before I

headed into the OR (my myo was 2 months ago), he reassured me that I

would *not* lose my uterus in this procedure. Even if he found

something -- let's say " untoward " -- he would close me up, allow me

to regain consciousness, and then let *me* make the decision about

what to do next. I'm quite certain that if he had found cancer

(which, thankfully, he did not), I would have decided to have my

uterus removed, but *I* wanted to be the one to make that decision,

not to have that decision made for me. Knowing that I would wake up

with my uterus, no matter what, made a huge difference to me in many

ways. And because my GYN was an expert surgeon, I had almost no

worry that he might " have to " convert to a hysterectomy because of

bleeding issues.

You and your doctor might choose a similar chain of action, or, of

course, you may find you're more comfortable choosing another

sequence of events. The important thing is that *you* be the one to

choose!

Good luck to you, !

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

I hope your cough subsides in time for your Wed. surgery date.

As far as complications that might indicate hysterectomy, the only

ones my docot mentioned were cancer or adenmyosis (I know tht's

misspelled!). That can't be corrected by myomectomy, as it's an all-

over uterine condition.

Best of luck to you, . Let us know what happens.

-Mindy

Are there any other conditions that would warrant a

hysterectomy besides cancer ?