FeMale Dopers, explain to a guy about fibroid removal

In My Humble Opinion
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I have a girlfriend who after having put up with six months of hormone injections has just found out that her fibroid mass has actually increased from 3.5cm to 4.9cm and after the weekend is going into hospital to have the lump removed.

Am still stuck away from home and will be for another few weeks. She is gonna stay at my place,as its closer to the hospital if needed and better amenitised than her place. She has friends to look in on her, I have friends who will look in also and I am hiring a Yaya to come stay ( kinda like personal maid)

She is still young (26) and otherwise healthy so barring complications, what can she expect as a recuperation period? Anything else I should be aware of?

A snippet I gleaned is that the fibroid size is borderline for a (n) hysterectomy, but I really don’t know about that other than it would be devastating for her if this was needed. Me? I don’t want kids but always figured at some time she would head in this direction and kind of accept that.

Anyway usual You are not my doctors and I really am not the patient disclaimers apply but hope are not a bar to your thoughts.

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Sorry to hear what your girlfriend and you are going through.

I’ve always been pleased with the medical information the Mayo Clinic puts on the internet. They have a lot of information about fibroids, including a comparison of various treatment options. There’s also a “personal stories” section that gives examples of what people went through.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/uterine-fibroids/UF99999/PAGE=UF00001

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Thanks for the link. Very helpful, its really not an insignificant operation is it.

But forewarned is fore-armed thanks again

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IANAD, but I do know that it is a significant operation. As after almost any general anaesthesia, she will feel very out of it for a while, and may need significant time – as in a number of weeks to get back to pre-surgery energy levels. She should definitely have someone to stay with her after she is released from the hospital. Obvously her own doctors will be advising her more specifically.