You can add me to the list. That’s how many of us, now…?
Nothing valuable to add, just that I’m currently sick but have had a real ‘Thank god, it could be much, much worse’ moment. Egads.
+1 for me
Here’s another great prolapse threadfrom a few years ago, the one that started me doing Kegels.
I think we need a thread like this every week to remind us to do our kegels 'cause I did them when I read the other threads, and I’m doing them now, but in between I tend to forget.
That and a “remember to do a breast self exam” thread every month.
With more on Kalhoun’s MIL’s uterus! (I’d think it was endlessly amusing after a few cocktails, too).
Frankly, given what you’ve written about your boss/doctor’s narcisisstic personality in other threads, I’d get a second opinion in regards to the part about the total hysterectomy. She may be a brilliant surgeon, she may be authoritive, but the narcissism could also make her the kind of doctor who likes to play god with a women’s reproductive health. I’d want to find out if it is really necessary to take everything out in order to fix your prolapse issues
I’ve had a supracervical hysterectomy, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. But I also kept my ovaries. “Total hysterectomy” often means taking the ovaries, too. You’re still quite young, and unless they are specifically giving you trouble, ovaries are a good thing to have, especially in regards to sexual function. (A cervix is good in that regard too, as it leaves you with a more natural end to the vaginal canal, but hysterectomies can’t always be done that way.)
Don’t know nothin’ about kegels, or birthin’ babies…
But I’ve got a couple extra rolls of duct tape if you need 'em.
Agreed. Sounds a little hinky to me that you’d need (almost) absolutely everything taken out.
Also, I hope this doesn’t gross you out, but as horrified as I am at the thought of any of my organs migrating outside of my body, I’m a little jealous. Are you allowed to touch your bladder, now that it’s accessible? I’d love to be able to see and touch one of my inner organs.
There was a great British show called “Embarrassing Illnesses” a while back where they showed, graphically, people with, yes, embarrassing illnesses. They featured a woman with a prolapsed bladder in one episode. The image is rather burned into my mind, but there were far worse things presented that I try harder to avoid remembering.
The reason she says I need a hysterectomy is because I’ve already had one ovary and tube out, and the other ovary can actually slip down, too, if it hasn’t been suspended artificially during the other ovary removal. Plus my case is pretty severe- the excess amniotic fluid during my last pregnancy really screwed my abdominal fascia, ligaments, and muscles. I could leave the uterus in, sure, but there’s a good chance that sucker’s going to fall out anyway if I do. My aunt’s fell out last year while she was golfing.
I’ve always been adamantly against elective hysterectomy- I swore that I wouldn’t have one unless absolutely necessary. That’s MY body part and I wanted to keep it. But I’m getting comfortable with the idea of it being removed.
Yes, she’s a narcissist. But she’s still brilliant and a very accomplished and talented doctor and surgeon. I trust her.
Yes, you can touch it. Boing, boing. It actually rubs against my panties and irritates. This is so gross!!
Well that certainly puts a different face on things. I hope I didn’t offend you. I agree that a hysterectomy should only be done for very good reasons. I wish you all the best.
That must be the strangest sensation, feeling irritation on your bladder. Does it still feel like it’s in your abdomen, or does your body adjust it’s “visual” sense of itself? (Kind of like having a foot amputated and getting a phantom foot feeling, only in reverse.) That might be a really stupid (or just uncomfortable) question, sorry.
I hope you’re able to get it taken care of soon, and that the hysterectomy goes as well as possible. And thanks for tolerating my curiosity.
It doesn’t feel like it’s in my body or not in my body. The only thing I actually feel is the irritation when it rubs. If I hadn’t looked down there, I wouldn’t have even known I had it and would’ve just thought I was just being too sensitive whenever I felt the rubbing.
Weird.
Oh, god, I thought I was the only person who was ridiculously curious about somebody else’s misfortune. What I want to know is, what color is it? Pink? Are you looking at, like, the “outside” of your bladder, or the “inside”, or what? (You don’t have to answer, obviously. I mean, really.)
You know how sometimes penises are really red and veiny? It’s kind of like that, with a thick clear membrane covering it. It doesn’t have an end like a penis or anything- it’s just a bulge, of course. The doctor said, in answer to my questions, that no, it won’t puncture, and that yes, you can walk, exercise, and have sex with it. Ew.
I’d say, if you’re going to switch to skirts, make sure they’re long ones.
Ok, I guess you can’t really have sex *with * it- it’s just not that appealing. Ha!
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I wish you all the best, too. I can’t imagine being in that situation and having to wait until insurance kicks in. I’d be all, “Do something NOW!!!”