Guest guest Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Hi everyone, my name is Sandy and I have been reading all the posts and learning so many things. I am 55 years old and have extremely heavy menstrual cycles, am borderline anemic and learned that I had fibroid tumors about 1 1/2 years ago. They think that the fibroids are interfering with my menepause so after the usual testings that showed the fibroids I was scheduled for a hysteroscopy. I live in a rural area in Illinois, which does not allow me many choices-2 OB/Gyn's and 1 hospital and since I don't have any health coverage-my choices are extremely limited. I was scheduled for this procedure in December'03 and was very anxious about it, as I have not had any surgery other than childbirth. The doctor was 2 hours late which gave me more time to stress about this and when it was time, they walked me into the operating room where I immediately saw the nurse getting out all the instruments etc.-they then proceeded to have me get up on the table and lay me down where they put the oxygen mask on. I did not like this mask as to me it felt like it was taking the air from me not into me so I started to complain and they readusted the mask, but now they were trying to strap my arms in an outstretched position and I panicked. Needless to say I became very frightened by all of this and started to gasp for air and then went into a full blow panic attack, and decided this was not for me. Since the doctor was still not in the room I asked to go home and after they tried to calm me down, they let me walk back to the out- patient room I started from and I quickly got dressed and practically ran from the hospital. Unfortunately the reason I was there in the first place has not gotten any better and since I obviously have a phobia about the mask-I was wondering if there was a less evasive way to have this procedure done. Any suggestions would really be appreciated since I have to go back to the Dr. next week for a follow- upand I want to be able to tell them I have more choices. Thank you all so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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