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MistressDarkArt -> RE: Endometriosis: Endovan Miracle cure?? (6/15/2012 8:16:51 PM)
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I had a complete hysterectomy for endo, fibroids, and a hemorraghic cyst in my pelvic wall. I briefly considered other alternatives, ruled them out, and insisted it be done by laparoscopy as the least invasive way. I knew that any time you remove connective tissue, muscle and ligaments the area will be weakened, but somehow I thought I'd dodge that bullet since I asked them to leave my cervix, was active, muscular, fit, a slave to kegels and would have no slice and dice laparotic incisions through my belly/pelvic muscles. The cyst had to be excised the old-fashioned way through vaginal muscle and tissue. Cripes on a cross, THAT was an ordeal much more traumatic than the hysterectomy itself.
Surgically slammed into menopause, then fast forward 4 years. Despite still being active, muscular, fit and a slave to kegels I now deal with thinned, fragile tissues, painful internal scar tissue, a 'demanding bladder' and altered sexual response (orgasms contract with a weird hiccuped disconnect where my uterus used to be...not painful but definitely strange).
Some of these symptoms would inevitably still have happened if I'd entered menopause naturally but stuff like the scar tissue and weakened pelvic area wouldn't have been an issue. Did the surgery cure the heavy bleeding and severe pain? Of course, but it might have eventually run its course through natural menopause and I wouldn't have an altered kitty I can't sit on that'll never be the same. Basically, I traded one type of misery for another.
Also, to those who say removing ovaries creates one less thing to get cancer: not always true. My gyn knows of two local cases where ovarian cancer was detected in the area the organs had been. Rare, but it happens.
My point is: cutting and pasting alters you. Not just bad things are removed. The older you are, the harder it is for your body to recover from the assault and there will always be a void where something used to be. You may decide it's the least of the evils, but think VERY carefully before electing surgery for an issue that might resolve on its own.
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