Hysterectomy

[the_std]

Quoth HappyFun Ball

I go to the drug store to get the meds, this young bitch zooms around my pathetic shuffleing to the pharmacy counter (I swear I will viciously murder whose sadistic idea it was to put it in the back).

Just as an aside here, the pharmacy counter is generally placed at the back of the store for three reasons - robbery prevention (the robbers can't just get in and out quickly, there's more of a maze to traverse), confidentiality (less people are likely to be hanging around at the back of a store) and improved sales potential (if they pharmacy is at the back, you have to walk past more shelves full of product on the way in and the way out, therefore you're more likely to buy something). I can promise you that they don't put them at the back to try to inconvenience people, although I understand and have been through how much it sucks trying to hobble back there when you're in pain like that.

[Luna Baby]

Mine was done vaginally, but I also had to have all the other repairs done as well. I did have 2 tiny incisions on either side of the pubic bone where the doc went in laproscopocly (sp???) to attach the sling for the cystocele repair.

Little Retail rabbit, mine was done just removing the uterus, tubes, and cervix. I still have my ovaries. Not sure what the surgeon's recommendation for your mom would be, but that *might* be an option so that she could have removed what needs to be removed but not go on HRT. I take no hormones whatsoever. Nature is taking it's course as it normally would!

[HappyFun Ball]

That's how mine was done, it was shipped loose and yanked out of my vagina (after they removed my cervix)

It really wasn't that bad, I mean not as bad as horror stories I heard (Mind you, these stories came from ladies who had theirs done 20+ years ago)

If you are done having babies and periods, it's a good route to go IMO.

I went through and threw away all my blood stained undies, I even bought some nice, sexy ones.

[Akasa]

I had a full hysterectomy several years ago. Best thing I ever did. Recovery took about a month, but to be pain free afterwards and not worry about my girly issues it was definitly worth it.
I'm sorry you didn't have someone taking care of you who could pick up your medications for you. I know I had issues walking for about a week.

[IamEmancipated]

I recently signed paperwork to get a laproscopic tubal ligation after I have my second kid this July; asking about the procedure at my OB was like pulling teeth without meds, no one wanted to tell me anything, not even when I could sign the paperwork to begin with. I ended up having to pick out a pamphlet on laproscopy and read the paperwork as my main sources of information. Very upsetting for me. (I know there's a reason they don't want you to decide on it until a certain time, baby might pass away, etc, I just wanted to talk, though.)

Though I did laugh out loud when I read, "By signing this you agree and understand that the procedure described means you CANNOT HAVE CHILDREN anymore..."

The only comparative experience has been my mom, who had a laproscopy back in 1991 when my youngest sister was born and they did hers immediately after the birth. My doc says they only do that if I have a C-section at the birth, otherwise it's an in-office thing with minimal anesthestic. I know I'm done after this; various reasons but number one being that I am happy with two kids (or one, should something happen) and do not wish to continue to reproduce. My mom says it's very liberating.