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Good luck Helen, hope it all goes well, and you feel lots better after the op.

Sarah, I always go to the local Family Planning place for smears as my own female doctor is useless at doing mine, they always came back as needing a repeat because not enough to test or whatever. I am a bit wonky inside so she never got things right but the F.P. place always got it right first time so now I go there. It isn't right that your surgery don't do smears with discretion and privacy. Maybe if you went to F.P. they could advise you re the other problems. Personally I would speak to the Practice Manager and say you are not happy or change to a better surgery if there is one near you.

Lizx

Lizx

No probs Puss,

Sarah, as Puss has said your practice sounds terrible. If I was you I would insist on seeing your dr and getting him to get you an appointment with the gyneacologist at your local hospital. When I first saw the gynea in Dec, he suggested the mineva coil for my intial probs, but after being told that I had the fibroid, I didn't want a foriegn body in there with the fibroid, so i said that I would have a hysterectomy after talking to friends on here and to a couple of people I know personally who have had the same problems.

I hope that you soon get some help with this, as you have said it really gets you down.
Take care and keep us informed.

Helen

where is your practice it sounds awfull so sorry you are suffering like this ive suffered with polycystic ovaries so have an idea what your going thro, if you want to pm me for a chat any time please do, im off to bed in a min tho sorry helen hi-jacked your thread zxxxxxxxx

Sorry BrummieHelen for my rant, I wish you all the best and Im sure you will be right as rain again soon.
Best Wishes Sarah

Good Luck BrummieHelen and thank you for bring the subject up. I have suffered for years having been told I had cysts on my left ovary my periods lasted months sometimes up to 6 months and it really dragged me down. But all they offered me was the coil ! Im 49 this year and have had enough really no-one seems to care or understand . I was told the cysts are not causing my problems !but Im not told what is !! which is frustrating so I put up and shut up. Anyway trying to get an appointment with my gp is impossible ! There are massive queques in the gp for the nurses who do the gp,s job and hand out drugs asap to get rid of the queques. Smears are done very quickly no blanket no curtain no respect, but they havent got the time for that. The nurses should be paid Gp wages because they are over run with patients. Sounds like I should do something about this ! and I think I will it is not good enough.

yes iwill let everyone know xxxxx

Dear BrummieHelen

Hello

Hope everything goes well.

Take things easy and be gentle on yourself.

Take care
Very best wishes
xx

Good luck with it Helen.

Hi folks,
Well I got home from work tonight to find a letter from the hospital, I've got to go next Thursday for my pre-op assesment and then hopefully, with bed availability I will go in on the 12th of May.
Dear Puss has said she will come and visit me, bless her.

will let you know next week how I get on

Helen
xxx

Good to hear from you Helen. Sounds like like they are getting it sorted the best way possible.

Take care,

Tess

Hi folks,
Well went and saw Dr's at the hospital and after discussing the options, I am going to have a Hysterectomy, besides the fibroid I also have some cysts on my left ovary so it will be a total hysterectomy. I've got to go and have an injection first to try and shrink the fibroid down so that there won't be as much blood loss, then once I've had that then it will be anytime after then but hopefully within 3 months I can have the op. So as soon as I have any more details as to when it will be I'll let you know.

thanks again for listening to me.

Helen
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Will be thinking of you Helen. Hope that they are able to give you the treatment you need SOON.

Sometimes it is the waiting that gets you down.

Good luck

Good luck Helen, I didn't see this thread 1st time around I had a D&C to remove mine and then surgery, no hysterectomy for me as I was on the IVF program ....now I just wish they had removed the ruddy thing and saved me years of grief !

Getting rid of the fibroids was a lot less hassle then anything else I went through

Good Luck

Morning folks
just getting ready to go to the hospital to see what they are going to do. Will let you know later how I get on.

My mum would have been pleased to hear that she wasn't the only one who had additional benefits from her op.
When she told people about it, they tended to give her funny looks!

A real silver lining to the ultimate "cure" for fibroids!

Thanks to those who have replied on here and via pm. I will get to answer your messages over the next few days, and keep you the loop as to what is happening.

Many thanks again
Helen
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I stopped having migraine after a hysterectomy. If you are past child bearing then a hysterectomy is the best option. Not such a dreadful experience and you soon feel the benefits.

Hi Helen

I would swear by hysterectomy too. I had fibroids and very heavy monthlies which were very restrictive as regards lifestyle, not daring to go anywhere during the wrong week, being anaemic, tired all the time etc. I asked the GP if I could have the hysterectomy as we didn't want any more children anyway, and he agreed straight away. I had it done in 2007 and have never looked back. They left my ovaries so that I can go through a natural menopause rather than hurtling me straight into it.

TeresaakaBridget

Why am I not surprised that it cured your mum's hay fever lol

The minute I had the hysterectomy done it cured my dreadfully sweaty feet. They used to be so bad that I had to peel my tights/socks off and take skin with it. As soon as I had the op my feet were as sweet as a nut, so I can only think that the excessive sweating must have been hormonal.

Hysterectomy every time girls..............FREEDOM

Dianne xx

My Sis had a massive fibroid in 1989 (aged 42). She had a hysterectermy.

She felt well very soon after the op.

My Mum had a hyster. in 1970, she swore that it cured her hay fever!!

She was very pleased that she had it done, had a new lease of life.

I thought the standard treatment for fibroids was a D&C first. If that failed and they came back, only then would they consider a hysterectomy.

My mum had fibroids and had a couple of D&C's before they finally decided that a Hysterectomy would be the only solution as she was becoming so anaemic. My MIL had a D&C at 58 with hers and never looked back.