You should be “up and running” (not literally, though!) within a day or two. Sometimes the recovery time will be longer, a week or two. Compared to several months needed to regain full health after a hysterectomy, endometrial ablation is real picnic!

Endometrial ablation (sometimes misspelled as “oblation” or “ablasion”,  also called uterine ablation and uterus ablation) is the technique to stop heavy bleeding during the period.

The normal loss of blood during the period is around 25 ml, and anything above 80 ml is just too large. Besides anemia (anaemia) and the problems it can bring you, losing so much blood may make your life unbearable. Many women escribe this not as having a period but as downright hemorrhaging. It is difficult to live when you

It is exactly in this situation when you say “I can’t live like this anymore, doctor, do anything, just save me now!” The next
thing you know, you’re discussing various kinds of surgery, most of them you did not even know to be existing, all up to hysterectomy. If you’re lucky, and fall into one of the groups of patients described below, you can settle for a “smaller” surgery such as endometrial ablation.

Remember this: if you talk to a healer, he will offer you a healing. If you talk to the surgeon, he will offer you a surgery. I suggest you do both and only then decide what to do. If there is one piece of advice that I would like you to carry on with you after reading this site, this would be it.

How to Perform Endometrial Ablation

Nature expects you to get pregnant every month. Your body gets ready for that and if the pregnancy does not happen, as is usually the case, the overgrowing endometrium is torn away and goes out. The objective test of menorrhagia is when more than 80 ml of blood is lost per menstruation, over several menstrual cycles. It is very difficult to measure the lost blood, so usually subjective measures are used, such as flooding, passing of clots, the number of pads or tampons used. If the patient is in hospital, her haemoglobin values could also be monitored.

Often the bleeding will be painful, but that may not be the biggest problem. At least, there are ways to fake or relieve pain, but if the abnormal bleeding persists, what is the woman to do? Up to 10 or 15 years ago, hysterectomy would have been the only solution. Today, there are many means to execute ablation, for instance:

Endometrium is the innermost layer of the uterus and if it can be removed, most of the menstrual bleeding should stop. That is the idea behind endometrial ablation — remove the endometrium, leave the rest of the uterus intact and let the life merrily roll on!

In the beginning, in the 1990′s, the gynecologists expected to end all the excessive bleeding in this way, actually, to introduce the patient into the state of amenorrhea. In practice, after ablation, you still get periods, but light or almost non-existant (that would be the best case scenario). The worst case scenario is when you have adenomyosis in the uterus, meaning the lining grows deeply into the muscle of the uterus. Ablation cannot go that deeply, so even after endometrial ablation, some of the lining is still there. That may cause the problems to continue, all up to the full hysterectomy. In some cases, women opt for a repeated ablation.

Are You a Good Candidate for Endometrial Ablation?

Also, ablation will be out of the question if you fall into one of the following categories:

The Possible Outcome of Endometrial Ablation

In most cases, if the patient is well chosen and if the doctor knows his or her job, heavy menorrhagia transcends into light menzes or no bleeding at all. Many practising gynecologists say that their most satisfied patients are exactly women with this problem — the bleeding is gone, life goes back to normal, the uterus and the ovaries are still there.

A total amenorrhea after ablation is rare, so you will be more pleased with the outcome if you (and the doctor) aim at hypomenorrhea — small bleeding. In some cases, the lining of the uterus can come back, say after 5 or more years. If you are nearer to menopause, ablation will serve you better in this regard. Theoretically, the presence of the lining could mean more bleeding or even a pregnancy, so if you know for sure that you do not want any more children, it is possible to combine ablation with some kind of sterilization. Failing that, after ablation, you should use a reliable method of contraception.

If there are tumors in the uterine cavity, the surgeon may try to expel them as well, since the instruments are there already. In some cases, the surgeon may opt for simultaneous laparoscopy — you will have to talk to your doctor about all these possibilities and try to reach a mutual understanding of the protocol before the operation.

Children After Endometrial Ablation?

In very rare cases, curious situations may develop. In some patients, the endometrium grows back, and then a repeated ablation may be in order. An even more unfortunate development is when a woman undergoes an endometrial ablation and then, a few years after that, meets a man that she would like to have children with… Then you see posts such as

“Can the endometrium grow again? See, I have just met a man, he’s kind of cute. We were talking about kids the other day, he looked at me slowly, as if measuring me and said yes, he liked them.”

Gynecological forums can easily be the saddest kind of forums that you will ever go to. The finality of it all, the ending of being a woman, the untold desire for more children and more luck with another man… This is exactly the reason this site exists, to teach you the alternative way and to heal you if there still is time in your particular case.

Preparation for Endometrial Ablation

The doctor may put you on GnRH, which is a replacement hormone. Its main role here is to shrink the uterine volume by 40% to 60%. If there are fibroids inside, they will shrink as well. It takes three months of treatment for maximal decrease of the uterus. Once you stop taking this, the uterus will return to about 88% of its previous size. The main benefit of this drug is to decrease blood loss and to decrease the size of the fibroids, if there are any. The fibroids would then be easier to remove either using laparoscopy, laparotomy or hysteroscopy.

The usual names for the GnRh drugs are Lupron, Synarel, Antagon etc. They are expensive and change your menstrual cycle. Theoretically, you should have the endometrial ablation immediately after the menstrual bleeding is over, but that is just not practical in normal circumstances. The day prior to surgery, the doctor may place a laminaria to gradually dilate your cervix the night before your surgery. Laminaria is a small piece of dried seaweed, it opens the cervix in order to minimize cervical tears during the operation.

After the Endometrial Ablation

Endometrial ablation is a minor surgery, but a surgery nevertheless. It is usually an outpatient procedure, meaning you come in for the surgery, get total anesthesia, and after the procedure is finished (usually, 15 to 45 minutes), they take you a recovery room (1 or 2, sometimes up to 4 hours for the effects of anesthesia to wear off). If everything is OK, you should be home the very same day. Here are some of the symptoms you may or may not have after endometrial ablation:

Only after three months will it become clear what the effect of the procedure was. Usually after six weeks you call in the doctor’s office, probably to have the uterus sounded in order to see whether a cervical stenosis is setting in. (If it is, there may be more bleeding with the first period.) Usually, one or two additional dilatations are also in order within a month or two.

You should be “up and running” (not literally, though!) within a day or two. Sometimes the recovery time will be longer, a week or two. Compared to several months needed to regain full health after a hysterectomy, endometrial ablation is real picnic!

Other Risks of Endometrial Ablation

Apart from the risks that anesthesia brings in by itself, the most common risks of endometrial ablation are

The device the operator is using may perforate the uterus and damage the bowels, or produce some kind of hemorrhage. Especially vulnerable are the cornu of the uterus, where the endometrial lining is thinner by default. The surgeon will often treat these parts of the uterus only lightly, so the lining there may still be present after the surgery. That means there will still be some bleeding during the periods, although never as much as it used to be before the operation.

Depending on the technique used, there may be fluid during the operation in the uterus. Rarely, it will overload the patient’s body, note however that there are recorded cases of even death because of this. A good strategy is to give Lassix 40 mg in the recovery room, in order to prevent pulmonary congestion.

Interview Your Doctor First

You’d think your doctor should interview you, but here I suggest the opposite. That fact is, there are many methods for endometrial ablation but so far none of them has proved to be better than the others. It more depends on the skills of the operator. He or she should be genuinely conversant with the methods and instruments needed for your type of surgery. Always ask the surgeon

It is your body after all, and realize that you have the right to a second (or third, or fourth or …) opinion if you don’t like what the first doctor is suggesting.

Cervix is the neck of the womb, and it is also called the entrance to the womb. It opens during labor, so that the baby can come out. The cancer of the cervix is is a malignant growth due to a human papylomae virus. Radical hysterectomy is a huge surgery and can be done only if the patient can stand it; if the cancer of the cervix spread outside of it, the surgery is pointless and the standard medical treatment boils down to radio/chemo therapy, which sometimes does a world of good, but in most cases just drains the patient with no real improvement.

Click on the arrow to play this cancer of the cervix video. If you have a dial up or slower Internet connection, click on the pause button after starting the video and let it load all the way so the video plays through without any problems.

Additional Techniques Revealed in This Cancer of the Cervix Video

In this cancer of the cervix video, we also see the following additional techniques for fighting cancer:

Note that these two latter techniques are in the domain of energy healing.

== natal chart,

== solar chart,

== progressed chart,

== harmonic charts,

== midpoints chart,

== Uranian charts.

Natal chart is the alpha and omega of all astrology, but to predict the future often the progressed and solar charts are needed. If one and the same token is recognized in all the three charts, say divorce, pregnancy, surgery etc. then it is practically mandatory that such a thing should manifest in the real world.

Astrology Reports for Two Persons

These reports require two sets of natal data, but then they can generate accurate info on the particular relationship, be it personal, marrital, sexual, business partnership, parent/child situtation, friends or anything else in between: . synastry chart,

== composite chart,

== time / space midpoint chart.

All these three charts speak volumes about the interplay of two natal charts. In 99% of cases, it will be about love, sex, marriage or divorce and breaking away. In the 1% rest of cases, it can be about business aspect of a partnership, about living in this or that country (then your chart and the chart of that country would be compared) etc.

I have specialized in composite charts because they hold the essence of the relationship. If the composite chart says that the relation will break up, it most certainly will. If you are unsure whether to break up or to hold a bit longer waiting for better times to show up, contact me for a reading over the Internet.

Transits — Astrological Reports for Mapping the Future

To you, the moment you came to this planet is the most momentous event in your life, but the Earth, the planets, the stars… and everything else continued to move through space and time. The reports about transits explain where are the cosmic influences right now, or anytime else for that matter. The art od astrological divination is based on hard astronomical fact, we know exactly where the planets are, where they have been and where they will be for hundreds and — in some cases for — thousands years back and into the future. So we combine the natal, progressed or solar chart with the transits and see how the new physical positions of the real, existing astronomical bodies MAY influence you. Notice the emphasis on MAY: nothing in the future is cast in stone, and by obtaining the map of future energies, you will be able to INFLUENCE the course of events to a certain degree.

When you ask “will I pass an exam”, the astrologer looks at your natal chart, sees there what planets and houses explain the notion of “exam”, and then glances at the transits: by combining the energy “weights” of all patterns, he or she will be able to tell you what are your chances of passing an exam, whether the transits form “evil” aspects, and if so, what “good” aspects to use to neutralize them. In essence, astrologer heals you by rectifying and aligning your patterns of behaviour with your natal “axioms” and current “aberations” due to transits.

Astrology Reports and Energy Healing

It is quite possible to make an astrology report on energy healing methods from the natal and other charts. For instance: . a strong third house will enable healing with Reiki and/or Su Jok,

== a strong sixth house (especially in earth signs) will point to the food as the remedy,

== strong twelfth house or Pisces will lead to energy healing,

== strong water signs lead to herbal teas etc.

Planetary configurations from an astrology report can point to the right selection of remedies. For instance, if you have Sun in Aries, attacked by Saturn from, say, Capricorn, you are bound to have problems with bones (Saturn) in the head (Aries), or upper (Aries) teeth (Saturn), or various kinds of depression (Saturn square Sun), or melancholy (Saturn square Sun) etc. Any remedy that will help you with your ailement will then also be a manifestation of Aries Sun squared by Capricorn Saturn.

Reaching the Simillimum

It is even possible to discover the simillimum — the remedy that for the most part describes your entire state — by combining influences in the natal chart. It is very important to find one’s simillimum, as that is the best remedy under the circumstances. If we find it through the natal chart, it then becomes a constitutional remedy, which in homeopathy can make miracles happen even in the worst of situations. For instance if you have Mars in Libra, you will have inflammation of the kidneys or, reciprocaly with Aries, inflammation of the eyes. But, if you have the Moon, say, in Virgo, you must add various problems with pancreas, liver and gall-bladder, due to lack (if in malefic aspects) or increase (if in “good” aspects) of natural fluids in those organs. So, ideally, you need a remedy that heals inflammations of kidneys, eyes, and/or liver… It is difficult to find such remedies, but an astrology report can still pinpoint the way towards the best remedy in each particular case.

But it gets even better: the astrologer can tell when one remedy or method of healing will be active and useful, and when it will stop being so! The remedy or method that worked while Saturn opposed your natal Capricorn Sun in 2003, 2004, and 2005 (producing depression and generally lowering immunity) may not be useful at all when Saturn moves to Leo (2005 to 2007) and you suddenly develop varicose veins in legs because Saturn then opposes your, say, natal Venus (veins) in Aquarius (legs bellow the knees).

An astrology report like this would be best used in conjunction with a reading from a live astrologer.

Astrology Report for Flower Remedies

Flower remedies are an excellent addition to every astrologer’s arsenal for helping the people in need. The proper situation to use them is when the client is suffering under malefic transits of slow planets (Saturn, Uran, Neptune, Pluto) but there are still no physical symptoms shown in a standard computerised astrology report. Let’s say your Sun were in Cancer; the transit of Saturn through Cancer from June 2003 to July 2005 made you really slow and depressive. Nothing to call your doctor about, and yet there is this feeling of undermined self-worth and constant sinking… An ideal situation for flower remedies such as Gorse, Gentian, Mustard and several others.

Or, she is divorced with one child and in love relationship with a man also divorced, also with a child, for some 18 years. Then Saturn stays for a year over Venus in their composite chart… the love is no more and relatinship breaks apart. It took only three days of taking a proper combination of Bach flower remedies to stop her feeling of loss — she came back to her own senses, after having a feeling of being beaten in the dark tunnel for two years in a row.

Or, a woman who stands to lose an excellent job because her relationship with a man she thought he loved her ended, after lasting for three years… Well, she got up to her feet after the break of the relationship and she managed to change herself so that a new job would put her in a much better position than before.

Astrology Report vs. Astrology Reading — What’s the Difference?

There’s a world of difference between a computer generated astrology report and a true reading with a live astrologer. If you can, you should strive to have your chart read by a professional astrologer, reports come as a distant second alternative.

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The Usual Causes Of Vaginal Discharge After Hysterectomy

Vaginal problems usually are:

Within 2-3 weeks after the operation, a watery, urine-like vaginal discharge may appear. It indicates ureteral or bladder injury or fistula and can happen in 1-2% of cases.

If there is a vaginal discharge after hysterectomy, avoid baths and pools for at least 48 hours. Consult your doctor and/or surgeon about what to do next.

The discharge should last no more than 2-4 weeks after the surgery, and it should gradually change its color from red to a pale brown color.

Human Papillomavirus

Another possibility for a vaginal discharge after hysterectomy is that a human papillomavirus (HPV) is present. The HPV is a group of about 100 viruses, about 30 of which are dangerous and will show as bumps or warts, sometimes in the shape of cauliflower. Most people clear up these infections on their own — they neither know that they were infected, nor do they have any kind of symptoms, and yet they can still transmit it to their sexual partners.

Whether the HPV will show as a problem, with its symptoms, will depend on the immune state of you body, and on the genetical predisposition. In classical medicine, there is no cure for the human papillomavirus, while in homeopathy
there is a system to eliminate it, through an application of a miasm called sycosis. Actually, on this site, there is a page that you should read carefully regardless of you having an endometriosis or HPV, because the origin of the illness is the same, weak genetic predisposition or the presence of a sycotic miasm as it is worded in homeopathy.

Other Vaginal Problems That May Develop After A Hysterectomy

An infrequent but major complication would be a vaginal vault prolapse due to the surgery, and sometimes it takes a year or two to develop. It occurs when the top of the vagina drops down due to a reduction in support structures. The surgeon may reduce the risk of vaginal vault prolapse during the time of hysterectomy itself, otherwise, another surgery may be needed to correct the problem.

A very rare complication after hysterectomy would be abdominal or vaginal herniation of the bowels (evisceration) through the incisions.

The types of hysterectomy are usually given their own shortcuts and these are:

Type of Hysterectomy According to the Parts Removed

Total hysterectomy is taking out the entire uterus, altogether with cervix.

Many lay people wrongly think that the term “total” here means taking both the uterus and the ovaries, but that is not correct. The phrase “complete hysterectomy” is also frequently used to describe taking “everything out”.

Subtotal hysterectomy is taking out only the uterus, while leaving the cervix in place. Tubes and ovaries may or may not be removed. This procedure is always done through the abdomen.

In recent years, there is a heightened interest in subtotal hysterectomy, as the common sense dictates that the sexual enjoyment will be greater of the cervix is left in place. Contrary to that, hard evidence (interviewing women with and without cervix left in place after a hysterectomy) shows that sexual pleasure is the same with or without cervix out there.

After subtotal hysterectomy, a woman still needs to have regular Pap smears to prevent cervical cancer.

Radical hysterectomy is taking out not only the cervix, uterus and fallopian tubes, but also the upper third of the vagina and the tissues around the cervix. Radical hysterectomy really is a surgical way of removing the cancer of cervix, so the pelvic lymph glands will also be removed at this time. Ovaries may well be target for the radical hysterectomy, but it is up to your doctor to assess whether that should be so.

Should Ovaries Be Removed As Well?

The latin name of the ovaries is “oopher” and for the tubes, it is “salpinx”. So, oophorectomy is taking the ovaries out, and salpingo-oophorectomy is taking both the ovaries and the tubes out. If done on both sides, it will be called bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and is usually shorthened as “BSO”. If the surgeon believes that the cause for hysterectomy may endanger the ovaries as well, you will be offered a BSO together with the hysterectomy.

It is important to ensure that the surgeon will not take the ovaries out only because it is convenient to him or her to do while you are already on the table. Taking the ovaries out will put you in the state of surgical menopause, meaning you will lack certain hormones for the rest of your life. It turns you into a perpetual customer for hormone replacements, so make it a joint decision before the surgery.

Type of Hysterectomy According to How the Uterus Is Removed

Vaginal hysterectomy is removing the uterus through the vagina. The presence of large uterine fibroids, large ovarian cysts, extensive endometriosis, or unexplained pelvic pain may stand in way of vaginal hysterectomy. But when it can be can safely be performed, vaginal hysterectomy generally involves fewer complications, a shorter recovery period and no visible scar.

Abdominal hysterectomy is removing the uterus through an incision in the abdomen. This is still the most common type of hysterectomy.

Total abdominal hysterectomy (or TAH), is removing the uterus with the cervix through the abdomen.

Laparoscopic hysterectomy (or LH) is perfoming the entire (or most of the) hysterectomy through the laparoscope.

Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (or LAVH) is using laparascope and completing the hysterectomy through the vagina.

Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy(or LSH) is a relatively new procedure, from the mid 1990′s. It cuts away the body of the uterus, but leaves the cervix in place. Many say that this is the future of hysterectomy, so if you must have it, at least ask whether it is available in the operating “theatre near you”!?

Choosing the Right Type of Hysterectomy — Is TAH Better Than LH?

Given enough time to operate, laparoscopy is better. The incisions are smaller and in case of LAVH, there are no abdominal incisions at all. However, there are no hard data showing the LAVH is superior the TAH, provided, of course, that both types of operation can be done safely.

Laparoscopy is clearly better then classical surgery for gallbladder and ovarian cysts, since most of the problems the patient has comes from the incision and not from what is done in the inside. Hysterectomy is different in that regard, since the tissues around the uterus must heal as well. Although this means that the difference between a laparoscopic and classical hysterectomy is not that great after all, if possible, opt for laparoscopy.

Think Twice Before Deciding for the Type of Hysterectomy

Some types of hysterectomies involve removing other organs as well. There are several ways to classify a hysterectomy so discuss with your doctor the kind of hysterectomy recommended to you. If something rings false talking to the first doctor, ask for a second opinion. Be peristent and open yourself to learning new things and notions. Otherwise, why do you think your situation can change for the better if you continue with your old, bad ways!?

– your sexual pleasure is diminished, if

– breasts and genitals are not as sensitive as they used to be, if

– orgasms are not as big as they used to be, and if

– there is a decreased libido.

Low energy and depression may also be signs of the lack of testosterone. All women under surgical menopause should add both estrogen and testosterone to their daily remedy intake!

Signs Of Quality Presence Of Testosterone

These are the signs that testosterone for women is present:

– vasomotor symptoms of menopause will be better,

– you will have more energy,

– there will be an enhanced feeling of well-being,

– breasts will be harder,

– there will a stronger desire for sex,

– sex will be more intensive,

– sex will be more frequent,

– orgasm will be better.

The reason testosterone therapy is not used more often is that women are afraid of its side-effects, such as hoarseness or voice changes, growing beard, acne and too strong a sexual drive. These will not happen if testosterone is taken in small doses, and if there are any side-effects, just decrease the dose of testosterone.

“Thumb is the head” is the main motto of Su Jok, meaning that the whole head can be accessed through acupunture points on thumbs. The thumb correlates with the head, the forefinger and little finger with the arms, the third and fourth fingers with the foot, and the palm corresponds to the trunk. From this starting point, Prof. Park developped an enourmous theory with many fields and branches. His system is now called Onnuri, “the whole world” in Korean, and consists of:

. Su Jok,

. Six Ki Therapy,

. Auricular Therapy,

. Head Therapy,

. M-Particle Therapy,

. Color Chakra Acupuncture,

. Twist Therapy,

. Diamond Therapy, and

. Smile Meditation. The list is not finite, since Professor Park is constantly updating and inventing new systems of healing.

What Can Su Jok Heal

Since its inception, Su Jok has spread all over the world, especially in Russia, Ukraine, and India. It is not only cheap therapy, its basics can be learnt within half an hour, there are no drugs administered and there are no side-effects. Anybody can heal themselves and the members of their families through Su Jok!

Best of all, Su Jok produces results. For instance, there are cases of healing myomata of uterus in only one, two or three Su Jok sessions (see bellow)! Su Jok has proven itself in many other areas, such as:

. headaches and epilepsy,

. disorders of the limbs and musculature (fibrositis, rheumatism, lumbago, muscle cramps)

. digestive disorders (nausea, constipation, diarrhea, hepatitis, cardiovascular disorders)

. genitourinary disorders

. gynecological disorders

. sexual dysfunction

. disorders of the eyes, ears, nose and throat

. skin disorders

. nervous system and psychiatric disorders

. obesity

. addiction to alcohol, nicotine and heroin

In the hands of a seasoned Su Jok practitioner, any illness can be treated successfuly, save for those in the very terminal stages.

The Esence of Healing with Su Jok

If an organ is ill, it will be represented as a point of pain under pressure on the hands and feet. The pain is there because on the point that corresponds to the organ, a small sphere of lactic acid is present. Here is the picture:

The point of pain can be pinpointed through a sharp object, such as a tip of the pencil. It looks like this:

The pain when the point that leads to the diseased organ is pressed upon is extreme and unbearable for any period longer than a few seconds. Once the point of pain is discovered, you can apply needles, magnets, moxas, laser, light lamps, color marks, seeds or pressure on it and the energy will be directly available to the diseased organ! More energy means more health — a very easy and efficient system of healing!

Systems of Correspondence

All organs of the body are represented on the left and right hands and feet. For instance, here is the representation on the left hand:

Su Jok Diagnostics

You can atest that this works right now. Stop reading, take a pencil or some other sharp object and start pressing around the parts of the hand that are corresponding to the parts of the body that you know you have a problem. Don’t stop at the point of sharp pain, continue probing until you find the point of extreme pain — such a pain that you start twitching, crying or wanting that the pain stops immediately. Under the pressure, you will be able to feel a small sphere around which the the worst pain lies. The diagnostic phase is over! and you can start healing. Actually, the very act of pressing on the painful point is a cure in itself, you can go on pressing like that (not really advisable) or you can apply some other kind of influence on that point.

The Tools for Su Jok

You can:

. use a special, really small needle for Su Jok and apply it to the painful point;

. fix a magnet over the point,

. fix a seed over the point,

. apply a moxa (you should really know what your’e doing in this one),

. massage the area around the point,

. apply a special Su Jok lamp on the point,

. put a color dot on the point etc.

Professionals Use the Needles

For professional work, needles are the best. They should be in the body for about half an hour; if another sessions is in order, the same needles are usually sterilized and applied only on that patient again. When the treatment is over, all the needles from one patient are disposed of. If only one session is indicated, the needles are disposed of immediately. In this way, there is no fear of transferring any infection from patient to patient.

There usually is no bleeding when the needles are inserted, since they need not go far into the body — the ball of pain is always situated right beneath the skin.

Other Tools

For children, needles are not suitable, only lamps and colors. Magnets work fabulously as well (for best effect, get special magnets for Su Jok). Natural seeds can work for anybody. You are free to use any seed you like, however, be guided by a possible similarity between the seed and the organ treated. For kidneys, take beans; for brain, take walnut, and so on. You can always use pepper, it is universaly available and very “active”. If you use seeds for any length of time, you will note that after one or two sessions, the seeds lose their power, become dry etc. Just take another seed and go on with the treatment.

If you are not sure where is the point of strongest pain, you can put several seeds together and fix them over the entire correspondent region. Magnets should be worn for two hours, colors for four. However, there are many case histories of prolongued use of magnets and there doesn’t seem to be any ill consequences.

Applying Su Jok to Gynecological Problems

Here is a simplified scheme for gynecological problems:

The picture shows where to insert the needles for uterus on hands and feet. If there are problems with ovaries as well, use three needles per hand or foot. For best effect, apply the needles on both hands and feet at the same time. In Su Jok literature, there is an example of such a treatment, and the fibroid of uterus disappeared after three sessions, that is, after three days of treatment!

Through my astrology practice, I have met a women who had Group III of Pap test, with possible complications ahead. She went to a Su Jok specialist and was given one session. Seeing the positive effect, she ordered her own set of needles, applied them and held them for eight hours in a row! After that, she had Group II again.

NOTA BENE. Do not do this yourself, it was her intuition that guided her; I’m telling you this so that you can see that Su Jok — in spite of its simplicistic outlook — works!

The Seed Therapy

Whatever acute problem you have with genitals, apply three seeds on the points of uterus and ovaries and wear them as long as you can. If during the day is not appropriate, be sure to wear them through the night — heal yourself while sleeping!

Again, in case that all this looks just too good to be true, know that there are cases where prolongued wearing of seeds, for several months in a row, cured severe cases of endometriosis!

Other Correspondent Systems

If this were the whole story of Su Jok, it would still be “the greatest medical discovery of the 20th century”. But there is much more to Su Jok itself, not counting the other Onnuri theories and systems. The correspondent system that was shown in the pictures above is not the only correspondent system that exists! It turns out that there are about a dozen or more systems of correspondence, and it is the practitioner’s free will to choose this or that correspondence system. Although through all these systems you can reach out to any part of the body, not all of them are equal for practical purposes.

Other Possibilities in Su Jok

In Su Jok you can directly heal through

. chakras,

. acupuncture meridians,

. Byol meridians, and

. points around the nails.

Through so-called branching you can describe any condition in the patients body and mind, and you can reach out and heal it through points on the skin. There is lot to learn and for complicated cases you should ask for a licenced Su Jok practitioner. But by all means, Su Jok in its most basic form is simple to use, so use it as much as you can.

Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures

After the 1990′s, another idea emerged — uterine ablation, surgical removal of endometrium. Actually, the procedure is better known as the endometrial ablation instead of uterine ablation (sometimes even called the “uterus ablation”). A large section of this site is devoted to endometrial ablation, so you can go there and see if it is for you right now.

If fibroids are found in your uterus, the surgical way to stop heavy menstrual bleeding will differ. For fibroids, there are myomectomy, uterine fibroid embolization etc. Other uterine problems will lead to their own minimally invasive procedures to stop heavy menstrual bleeding.

Your doctor may also put you on some kind of medication, again, according to the symptoms, the diagnosis, and pharmaceutically available pills.

Alternative Medicine to Stop Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Reiki can help a lot. It promotes both emotional and physical healing at the same time, stops the bleeding, helps wounds heal many times faster than usually, and introduces a state of relaxation for the patient. If you can, find someone to give you Reiki treatments, either in person or via long distance. You can also try numerous Reiki groups out there — they’ll be glad to help.

Classical homeopathy, in hands of a skilled expert, can cure you like nothing else. The problem is to find such an expert. If there isn’t one living “next door” to you, try homeopathic forums. Unfortunately, I’ve seen some fairly uncreative prescriptions in those forums, which did not lead to a cure. For instance, “you have a bleeding, that must be Phosphorus or Sulphur”. The problem with such off-hand prescribing is that you always end with undifferentiated remedies, so that cannot stop heavy menstrual bleeding in each and every case.

If you want to go to forums of any kind, you post a problem and somebody tells you the solution, but before trying it out, ask who they are, what is their experience in treating gynecological problems through homeopathy etc. If someone is willing to help, it doesn’t automatically mean that they are able to help you.

In fact, if you do not know what else to do and want results quick, always start your quest for better health with herbal remedies. There are several herbs, such as Achillea Millefolium and Ipecacuanha, that will relatively easily stop heavy menstrual bleeding, buying you time to delve deeper into the roots of your problems in order to heal them completely. Heavy menstrual bleeding is a symptom, not a disease in itself. Its presence shows that your problems run deeper, on psychogical and hormonal levels, so be sure to heal you life when the bleeding stops, or, it will just show up again and again, until your final doom, hysterectomy.

Many herbs are available as homeopathic remedies, and it becomes almost a matter of taste whether to take their energies in one form or another. Note also that in homeopathy there will be many other remedies at your disposal, which are not herbal in origin. Finally, in radionics, you will have access to the exact code of your illness and organs, so that you would be able to diagnose and heal yourself faster that way. Unfortunately, there are slim chances that you will ever get involved in radionics, so that really is not option to stop heavy menstrual bleeding.

There is another method to stop heavy menstrual bleeding, it is Su Jok. If applied properly, you heal within two or three days, and it is as inexpensive as it can be. It is a form of acupuncture on your hands and feet.

Finally, a proper astrological analysis will show the complete circle of energy in your body. It is the only way to tell how long will your health problems last, so if you are serious about healing yourself, see my page about medical astrology. It is a more expensive option, but from that analysis we can also see which method of healing is best under the circumstances. It is also the only way to say whether there is a surgery ahead of you or not!

Side Effects of Hysterectomy on the Vagina

The vagina may be shortened, scarred and/or dislocated by hysterectomy. Often, it ends up shorter than it used to be, especially if the cervix is taken out as well. (It may lead to curious situations: through my astrological practice, I once met a women with this condition, and after hysterectomy she had sexual relationship with a man with a small penis; he was hooked so much that she had to change the phone number in order to hide from him when she decided to break up the relationship!)

Side Effects of Hysterectomy for the Heart

The decrease in producing of the hormones, especially estrogen, has serious consequences for the heart and blood flow. In the studies that were conducted in 1990′s, the outcome was that estrogen prevented from having more serious problems with the heart. In a more recent study, from 2003 to 2005, which was controlled in contrast to those first studies, it says that women who use estrogen may face a slightly higher risk of heart attacks and strokes over women who do not use estrogen. This is an important new development so blindly taking hormones after hysterectomy is not a wise idea.

While this may be conflicting information, one thing remains clear: if you do take hormonal replacement therapy and smoke at the same time, the risks for your heart are much bigger than usual. If and while on HRT, don’t smoke, and that’s it.

Other patients that should not use HRT because of cardiovascular problems include those with

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and Joints, Muscle Pain and Immobility

Bone, joint and muscle pain and immobility is not frequently connected with the hormones, but that is exactly the mechanism. The solution is to regain the hormonal balance, and not to poison the patients with corticosteroids…

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is one of the most frequent consequences of hysterectomy. Estrogen production falls, but progesterone production falls even more, and this disbalance ends up as osteoporosis. The solution is to take (natural) progesterone back, usually in the form of a creme or as a homeopathic remedy.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy On Sex

Good sex depends on the proper hormonal mix, both in the male and in the female. If there is a so-called Estrogen Dominance, a state in which there is an unproportional difference in levels of estrogen as compared to the levels of progesterone, woman will lose appetite for sex, will not be able to be aroused sexually and so on. Please see our page on sex after hysterectomy, for additional information.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy On Vaginal Dryness and Painful Intercourse

Lower levels of estrogen will produce vaginal dryness, a state in which penis cannot easily enter the vagina and the intercourse becomes painful. It can be painful both for the man and for the woman, each with his and her bag of problems. After a while, both partners agree that the intercourse is not possible, until something changes.

There are various solutions to this well-known problem. One is to apply lubricants, the other — and much more fundamental at that — is to remedy the hormonal disbalance. Yet another approach is to wait it out, later things may get better (this is my advice if the vaginal dryness can be seen in the natal chart as a transit of Saturn over natal Venus).

Side Effects of Hysterectomy On Pelvic Organs

After the surgery, the uterus will not be there any more, and the surrounding organs will naturally fall in that place. At that, the bladder, bowels, and other pelvic organs can become displaced, which can lead to lifelong series of problems. Not all hysterectomies are “happy ones”.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy On the Urinary Tract

This is a similar problem: after the hysterectomy you may have frequent urinary tract infections, frequent calls to urinations, incontinence (the inability to hold urine for long). This can seriously disrupt the quality of life — imagine not being able to go out of the house for fear of urinating all over yourself in public!

If the nerve that regulates the bladder is cut during the surgery, urinary problems will be with you to the end of your days!

Side Effects of Hysterectomy In Digestive Disorders

Chronic constipation and other digestive disorders may result after the hysterectomy. Adhesions to the pelvic floor may happen, or some nerves can be cut in this area.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and Fatigue

You can expect profound fatigue after the operation, but for many women it will become a norm even after the operation is long gone. It is yet another possible consequence of surgical menopause. The key to resolving this again is finding the proper hormonal balance, either through herbal teas, homeopathic remedies or some other alternative method.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and Chronic Exhaustion

Chronic exhaustion can result from many causes, but it all boils down to overworked adrenal glands. Fix the hormones, and the rest will fix itself.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and the Loss of Short-term Memory

Loss of short-term memory after hysterectomy comes from the worsening of blood circulation in the brain. In menopause, it is imperative to retain good circulation in the brain and you should consider taking either pharmeceutical means or alternative medicine treatment. One of the best is Gingko-Biloba, you will feel refreshed in the brain, simply because the brain will have more food to work with.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy and Hysterical Behaviour

After hysterectomy, you can expect your character to change for the worse. The word “hystera” in Greek means womb (uterus in Latin) and it was soon noticed that the women without a womb have blunting of emotions, personality changes, despondency, irritability, anger, reclusiveness and suicidal thinking. They easily break out in anger, talk in haste, oftentimes communicating more with their unconsciousness then with explicit words. It is exactly after these women that this entire way of behaving was called “hysterical”.

Modern medicine views body as if it were a depot of broken parts and organs, impatiently waiting to mend it. So many doctors should know better, and yet they still think that the uterus is only babies to develop and then come out in pain. Once you’ve had your babies, you don’t need it — they say quite openly. Nothing could be farther from truth. Both the ovaries and the uterus function throughout the life time of a woman, and they never cease to take active part in the body. Living without them is abnormal, and unless there already is cancer developed somewhere, they should not be taken out.

So, what is the role of the uterus? It is an organ of emotions, just like the pancreas. While both men and women have pancreas, only women have uterus, and it is their organ to store and feel their own emotions, as well as to reach out and feel other people’s emotions. The reason these organs get ill are the unresolved emotions, which are unspent elsewhere in the body and get burried in the uterus and/or ovaries. There these emotions become food for abnormal growts, such as cancer, myoma, polyps, adhesions etc. The uterus “sees” that something is going on in the body, but it gets only the neuro-impulses, originating in the brain. The excitement catches on but the brain know what it is all about, and the uterus doesn’t. But it will still store the energy in itself and that is how the illness begins.

Side Effects of Hysterectomy in Astrology

In astrology, the neurological excitement is symbolized by Uranus, while the Moon represents the organs. If the Moon is badly placed, then it will not know by itself what to do with the additional energy and will store it as polyps, myoma etc. Such placements could be

Even if these placements are not all present in the natal chart, they can enter the picture through progressions, synastry, through a solar chart etc. If three of these predicaments are found at the same time in any of these charts, the illness will develop. In case of Saturn, it can easily become cancer.

Vaginal hysterectomy requires that vagina be stretched and kept open by special instruments. The advantage is that no external incisions are made. There is one internal incision at the top of the vagina around the cervix. As the result, the vagina may be shorthened, which can have repercussions on the sex life later.

As this short video shows, the uterus and cervix are cut from their supporting ligaments and surrounding tissue, and then the connecting blood vessels are tied off. The next phase would be removing the uterus and cervix through the vagina (not shown on this video), which is then closed to prevent infection and to keep the intestines from dropping downward.

The video is 1:15 minutes long.
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You can watch more than two dozen similar videos from our hysterectomy video page.

Menorrhagia stands for “excessive bleeding”, and unresponsive menorrhagia usually leads to a hysterectomy, because the doctors start thinking that nothing can save the day.

The method of endometrial ablation Mr. Bolanos chose was operative hysteroscopy. The endometrial polyp is cut away with a roller ball. Most hysterectomies arise due to unresponsive uterine bleeding, but surgeries such as this help avoid hysterectomy by controlling the possible cause of it.

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For other videos see our main page on hysterectomy video. For other techniques, see the main page on endometrial ablation.

For your orientation, here is the comparison chart of surgical options for hysterectomy:

Possible Complications

The above data are for straightforward cases in which everything goes smoothly. There are possible complications which may prolongue recovery time after hysterectomy. You may have a minor problem such as urinary infection, or it may be a major problem of an infected wound, which may persist for three or four months on its own. Here’s a list of major prolongued hysterectomy complications:

When “shopping” for a type of hysterectomy, always ask the surgeon how did other women fare after the surgery itself. Also ask what you can do to shorten the recovery time after hysterectomy. In general, prepare yourself well with all the usual stuff, such as lots of food in house, recruit and organize the helpers (the spouse, relatives, friends), find someone to drive you back and forth to the doctor and/or hospital etc. However, regardless of the kind of hysterectomy that you had, the following energy healing techniques will also be of help and may well shorten the recovery time after hysterectomy:

Speed Up Recovery Time After Hysterectomy with Reiki

The best present you can make to yourself is to be introduced to Reiki before the surgery. Read about it on this site, Google it, become a member of the relevant Yahoo Groups and so on. See to it that not only you but the helpers also get into Reiki. In that way, you will be able to deliver Reiki sessions to yourself both before and after the surgery, and somebody else will be able to Reiki you when you come home.

The main reason to get into Reiki is that it makes wounds heal many times faster. You will lose much less blood and the surgical cuts will come cleaner and not be infected if you apply Reiki to them.

Reiki will also eliminate pain on its own. It will often make you drowsy and sleepy, which is exactly what you need to recover as fast as you can.

Reiki will also eliminate the toxins from anesthesia, fast and thoroughly.

While in hospital, you can ask whether they have an official Reiki officer. You’d be surprised to learn how many hospitals have now incorporated Reiki into their daily routine (you can learn a lot more on this if you Google the phrase “Reiki in hospitals”). Hopefully, your life will not be in danger after the hysterectomy, but Reiki has often proved itself as a literal life-saver!

Another option to receive Reiki is through Reiki groups for distant healing. Just find several such groups and their members will be glad to send you Reiki all day long. This often helps a lot, sometimes miraculously.

If you have friends that have at least Level II of Usui Reiki, which means that they can send you energy regardless of the usual time and space constraints, please engage them directly — ask them for special sessions if needed. Another possibility is to find a professional distant healer and pay them to send you the energy. Finally, you can use the Energy Pack and the Triple Energy Pack right from this site to send yourself Reiki for as many days as you would like, for free.

Bach Flower Remedies

Having a bottle of Rescue Remedy is a must, both before and after the hysterectomy. Other flower remedies should be prescribed according to the usual rules — observe the moods and the complete mental picture, then find their counterparts within the remedies.

Homeopathy Can Also Speed Up Recovery Time After Hysterectomy

Properly applied, homeopathy should be able to heal you and all the causes that led to the hysterectomy in the first place. However, if you must have a hysterectomy, you can still apply homeopathic remedies to your benefit. Please have a look at the Post Op Attunement page, which groups practically all the remedies that need to be taken after a surgery. Here’s a partial list of applicable homeopathic remedies, though:

Apply any or all of these and your recovery will be shorter for sure.

Crystal Healing

If you are already into crystals, then it makes sense to choose one or more favourite crystals to accompany you during the recovery time after hysterectomy. It doesn’t, however, make sense to buy them just for the occasion. If there is a true crystal healer near you and he or she is willing to help you, you can give it a try.

Do not carry your favourite crystal into the hospital, though. It can all too easily be stolen or forgotten.

Abnormal Uterine Bleeding As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Excessive uterine bleeding, called menorrhagia, can lead to anemia (low blood iron count), fatigue, and contribute to missed days at work or school. Menorrhagia is generally defined as bleeding that lasts longer than seven days or saturates more than one pad per hour for several hours. Please have a look at the page on how to stop heavy menstrual bleeding, on this site.

Irregular uterine bleeding, called metrorrhagia, can also occur in women with menorrhagia. Metrorrhagia is defined as bleeding or spotting that occurs at times other than during the expected menstrual period.

Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia are generally treated first with medication or other surgical alternatives to hysterectomy. However, abnormal uterine bleeding that does not improve with conservative treatments may require hysterectomy.

Fibroids As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Fibroids (also known as leiomyoma) are noncancerous growths of uterine muscle that occur in up to one-third of all women. Fibroids may become larger during pregnancy, and typically shrink after menopause. They may cause excessive and irregular vaginal bleeding. Here is the list of pages on fibroids on this site:

Astrology of the fibroids

Herbal remedies for uterine fibroids

Homeopathic treatment for uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroids

Pelvic Organ Prolapse As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Pelvic organ prolapse occurs due to stretching and weakening of the pelvic muscles and ligaments. This allows the uterus to fall (or prolapse) into the vagina. It is usually associated with pregnancy, vaginal childbirth, genetic factors, chronic constipation, or lifestyle factors (repeated heavy lifting over the lifetime). Please have a look at the following pages on this site:

Prolapsed uterus

Uterine prolapse

Cervical Abnormalities As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Precancer or carcinoma in situ (CIN 3) of the cervix that does not resolve after other procedures (such as cone biopsy, laser or cryosurgery) may require hysterectomy.

Uterine cancer

Uterine sarcoma

Endometrial Hyperplasia As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Endometrial hyperplasia is the term used to describe excessive growth of the endometrium (the tissue that lines the uterus). It can sometimes lead to endometrial cancer. Although endometrial hyperplasia can often be treated with medication, a hysterectomy is sometimes needed or preferred to medical therapy.

Chronic Pelvic Pain As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Chronic pelvic pain can be due to the effects of endometriosis or scarring (adhesions) in the pelvis and between pelvic organs. However, pelvic pain can also be caused by other sources, including the gastrointestinal and urinary systems. It is important for a woman with pelvic pain to ask about the probability that her pain will improve after hysterectomy.

Endometriosis As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Endometriosis occurs when the uterine lining or endometrium grows outside the uterus, usually on the surface of pelvic organs. In very rare cases, endometrial tissue was found on lungs, and even in brain!

The main problem is that the endometrial tissue continues to follow the hormonal changes in the body, but cannot go anywhere. That causes pain, infertility, heavy periods, severe cramps, intestinal pain, pain during or after sex and so on. In the body, “endo” (as it is often shorthened) can cause bumps, nodules and scar tissue… also a cause of pain.

For a further study of endometriosis from two unusual angles, please see:

Endometriosis and homeopathy

Endometriosis in the natal chart

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD for short), and it is an infection of the upper genital tract caused by bactria that migrate from tre vagina or cervix the fallopian tubes, ovaries and uterus. Two of the most common bacteria are gonorrhea and chlamydia, although many more can be present in each particular case.

Intrauterine Adhesions As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Intrauterine adhesions are car tissue within the uterus. Adhesions can cause the following:

• lighter than normal menstrual periods,

• absent periods,

• infertility,

• miscarriage.

One of the main reasons for avoiding hysterectomy, or any other significant gynecological surgery for that matter, is that in 90% of such cases, additional adhesions occur. This can lead to infertility, pelvic pain and bowel obstruction, as well as to the inability to carry the pregnancy to the term.

Severe Menstrual Pain As the Reason For Hysterectomy

Dysmenorrhea is when you have a menstrual pain so harsh that you cannot go on with the usual daily activities. Pain while menstruating is the most common gynecological problem amonst the menstruating women. There are two types of dysmenorrhea, primary and secondary. Primary dysmenorrhea is due to prostaglandins, the hormones of the uterus and cervix. They force the uterus to contract, causing the pain.

The pain can also be due to the stretching of the cervix, while the blood clots are passing towards the vagina.

Secondary dysmenorrhea may be due to the presence of endometriosis, fibroids, PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease), ectopic pregnancy or IUD (Intra Uterine Device) use. Other factors that bring on severe menstrual pain can be

• a family history of severe menstrual pain,

• smoking,

• drinking alcohol while menstruating, as well as

• being overweight.

She was on homeopathic therapy both before and after the operation, also on Bach Flower Remedies and was also given Reiki. In recovery, she used homeopathic remedies and Su Jok in the form of the seed therapy. Let us have a look at the natal chart:

Saturn in Scorpio is a target — Jupiter square Saturn may be a tumour in the genital area, while the square from Neptune makes the tumour invisible. Mars square Saturn in Scorpio — a possible operations on sex organs.

The Moon denotes the uterus and ovaries. The Moon in this chart is quite weak, in Capricorn, the sign of its detriment. Opposition to Pluto is a serious predisposition for gynecological illnesses such as cancer or tumours of uterus or ovaries. It is on the 8th degree, which also brings the nature of Scorpio to this Moon.

Nothing comes to pass if it is not in the natal chart. In this chart, there are lots of possibilites for gynecological illnesses, and yet it took 78 years for them to actually take place. This is so because of the rule of three: the hard aspects or positions manifest themselves as problems or illnesses only if they are seen in three or more different charts simultaneously. The usual procedure is to examine the transits for timing, the progressed chart for prolongued trends, and the solar return chart to pinpoint the year in which all this can happen. In the rest of this example we shall do exactly that.

The Transits

The heavens never stop in motion. The natal chart is a picture of cosmos as seen from the place of birth on Earth. The very next millisecond after you were born, gives a similar but different chart. As above, so bellow — the planetary movements never cease. The planets move and thanks to astronomy, we know exactly where they will be in the future. That is what transits are — planetary positions for any given day. We can compare the natal chart with the transits and delineate how the new positions will influence the natal chart. Here are the transits on the 13th October 2004:

Note the square of transiting Mars on 10 Libra to the natal Moon on 8 Capricorn.  Here are the transits on 13th August 2003:

This date is chosen so that the transiting Saturn on 8 Cancer is in exact opposition with the Moon on 8 Capricorn. Saturn rules the Moon in the natal chart, so this transit is a trial period for the Moon, i.e. sex organs.

We need more transits, but I’ll give you just the dates:

15th October 2003 Saturn on 13 Cancer

On this date, Saturn started to return to the beginning of Cancer.

7th March 2004 Saturn on 6 Cancer

Saturn stops going back and starts direct motion once again.

24th April 2004 Saturn on 8 Cancer

This is third and last time Saturn is in exact opposition to the natal Moon.

The whole transit began on 13th August 2003 and ended on 24th April of 2004, more than 9 months in a row. It is exactly in this period that this woman got cystadenom on the left ovary, the final size of which was 8 cm in diameter!

Aspects — the Flow of Energy in the Chart

In any given chart, you will see lines in the middle of the circle, connecting two planets. They differ by colors: blue opposition red square green trine blue sextile violet inconjunction There is another important aspect, conjunction, when two or more planets are practically at the same position on the circle and there is no particular line for that. Just by looking at the chart you see the two planets are together.

If the line is stronger in color and texture, the aspect is stronger and the reverse is true: the dotted and pale colors and lines denote weak aspects.

Aspects are the inner and psychic life of each individual and his or her chart, but we are not going into that here. We just want to conclude from the chart when an illness might start and when it can end. In that way we shall know what steps to undertake — whether the healing is sufficient, whether complications are to be expected and so on. We conclude such things by looking at the chart, watching the transits and the times they hit the hardest.

In case you were wondering how I knew to look for transits of Saturn, instead of any other planet, the answer is in the blue line between the transiting Saturn and natal Moon. If you looked at the transits for all those dates, you saw the strong and continual blue line between them. Opposition, square and inconjunction are hard aspects, i.e. they cause action in the material world and in such a way that something unwanted happens. In the context of our topic, they denote illness, or a strong possibility of an illness.

Progressions

If the moment of birth is so significant for the whole life of the individual, maybe the next day, the day after the next and so on are significant as well? This is the idea behind a progressed chart. It is a chart in which one day after birth represents one year of life. The first day is for the first year, the thirtieth day is for the thirtieth year and so on. Here is the progressed chart for 13th October 2004:

There are many evil aspects is this chart: . the Moon is almost exactly on Saturn — a conjunction,

. the Moon and Saturn are squared by Neptune and Mercury (strong red line) as well as by Jupiter (weak red line),

. the Moon and Saturn are inconjunct Mars.

That is why the operation was held exactly on this date — her state was so unbearable that she just could not get along with her tumour any more.

In spite of old age, she survived gracefully, since the Moon and Saturn have trines (the best aspects) to Sun and Pluto. Also note that the Moon and Saturn are in Scorpio, the sign which rules the genitals. The trine to Pluto was extremely helpful here (Pluto rules Scorpio), a kind of a guarantee that everything should end fine.

The Solar Return Chart

Here is the solar return chart for 2004:

Synthesis

From the natal chart:

1) The Moon is without power. It rules Cancer but is in the opposite sign. Prolongued hard aspects to this Moon will bring problems.

2) Moon on 8 Capricorn — this degree is analogous to the eighth sign, Scorpio (the genitals).

3) Moon on 8 Capricorn and Pluto on 12 Cancer — Moon opposition Pluto. This may mean problems with sex organs.

From the transits:

4) Saturn opposes the natal Moon from June 2003 up to 24th April of 2004. Saturn rules the Moon through Capricorn but now opposes it for nine months. This is a long and unusual transit, Saturn usually passes a point on the circle for a couple of days, weeks at most. Such a long transit is a sure sign of some damage being done to the natal Moon, i.e. to the woman’s genitals.

From the solar return chart for 2004

5) Mars square Moon — a surgical operation during this year.

6) Venus square Moon — congestion of blood, tumours.

7) Pluto square Moon — wild tissues, cancer, irregular growth.

8) Mars opposition Pluto — irreversible events, operation, cutting and taking out.

From the progressed chart

9) Moon exact conjunction Saturn — tumours, growths.

10) The same conjunction in Scorpio — the genitals.

11) Moon conjunct Saturn trine to the Sun and Pluto — excellent aspects for survival.

12) When the Moon passes the exact conjunction with Saturn in the progressed chart — the urgency for the operation will be gone. We conclude that the operation must be held before the full aspect, which happens on 14th of October 2004.

Conclusion of this case

Unavoidable hysterectomy, not later than 14 October 2004. The operation will pass well. The transit of Saturn pulled the trigger, but when it passed on, the real danger also passed on. In this case, hysterectomy seems to have solved the problem, but in effect served only to clean up the mess. When the transiting Saturn passes the progressed Sun on 26 Cancer (end of June 2005), life will generally be easier for this woman. Meanwhile, Saturn on progressed Sun is a possibility of problems with heart and the eventual congestion of the arteries that lead to the heart.

The video first shows the uterine cavity as the the surgeon sees it on the video screen. This cavity is small and distorted because of the adhesion, due to a scar on the inside wall of the uterus. The adhesion divided the cavity into two parts. The surgeon cuts through the adhesion with a hysteroscopic cutting knife, which uses electricity. The goal is not only to resect the adhesion but to eliminate the scar itself.

Once the resection was done, the video shows how the uterine cavity opened up and normalized the uterus. This woman will undergo further IVF treatment, but her chances of conceiving are greatly increased, since the uterus is almost normal now.
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1) the management of endometriosis, including pain relief and reduction of endometriotic lesions, and

2) preoperative hematologic improvement of patients with anemia caused by uterine leiomyomata (fibroids) when used concomitantly with iron therapy.

What Does Lupron Do?

The generic name (the name of the substance) is leuprolide, while the other two brand names (the names that you should ask for in the pharmacy shop) are:

Eligard and Viadur.

Leuprolide is related to a naturally occurring hormone called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which governs the the ovulatory cycle. Lupron, as well as some other drugs (Synarel, Busrelin), causes the body to gradually quit producing GnRH and that is why it called an GnRH agonist. The patient enters a state of temporary menopause — a process known as pituitary downregulation. In effect, Lupron shuts down the natural production of both testosterone and estrogen. and that is why it is usually prescribed for the following circumstances:

1) as a palliative drug for advanced prostate cancer,

2) for endometriosis (as approved by the FDA)

3) preoperative treatment, most commonly before endometrial ablation or some other kind of surgery on the uterus.

4) central precocious puberty — a condition in which a child enters the puberty too soon, including accelerated bone growth and the development of secondary sexual characteristics.

Unfortunately, the list does not stop here. Lupron is being also used by fertility doctors in order to suppress female hormones to start the IVF. They suppress them first and then stimulate the production of multiple eggs in order to increase the probability of success of the whole procedure. Patients usually have no idea that such treatment may harm them in many other ways, as follows.

Lupron Side Effects

There are two kinds of side effects, the ones that should not happen and the ones that are expected to happen since that is what you took the drug for. The he unexpected ones are:

. an allergic reaction (difficulty breathing; closing of the throat; swelling of the lips, tongue, or face; or hives);

. difficulty urinating;

. bone pain;or

. numbness, tingling, or weakness in the legs or arms.

If any of this occures, stop taking Lupron as soon as you can, and contact your doctor as soon as you can. (You may or may not be able to stop taking Lupron, depending on how the drug was administered in the first place.)

The “less severe” symptoms are to be expected as that is what happens when you meddle with your own production of hormones:

. hot flashes or sweating — this one’s a classic; taking Lupron is inducing menopause of a kind. Your body needs estrogen to function normally!

. decreased libido or impotence — another classic. Without proper hormonal mix, you are no good either. Again, meddling with your hormones is dangerous to your health and if you think there is no other way, then see the end of this page.

. lack of energy;

. depression;

. breast enlargement — another great site to see what the misuse of sexual hormones does to your body.

. nausea or vomiting;

. constipation;

. weakness;

. dizziness;

. headache; or

. redness, burning, itching, or swelling at the injection site.

Lupron — Horror Stories

There are thousands of women in the USA that have been truly victimized by this drug. There are cases of

. permanent neurological damage,

. noncancerous tumor,

. breast cysts,

. cardiac arrythmias,

. dizziness,

. swelling and

. fatigue.

All this have been documented but the FDA feels that the advantages of using Lupron still outweigh its shortcomings.

Your doctor may order blood tests and/or other kinds of medical evaluations in order to monitor your health state.

Pregnancy and Lupron

If you take Lupron, you should be exercising some kind of birth control. If you are already pregnant, you may not use this drug at all. If you get pregnant while on Lupron, contact your doctor immediately, since Lupron is known to cause birth defects in an unborn baby.

Administering Lupron

There are several varities of this drug, depending on the way of administering it:

. a subcutaneous injection (under the skin), as

. an intramuscular (into muscle) depot injection (a shot given periodically at a doctor’s office), or as

. an implant.

It can be injected daily, monthly, every 3 months, or every 4 months, depending on the formulation being used and the condition being treated. Different formulations are not interchangeable. The implant is called Viadur and must be removed after 12 months. In certain cases, you will be expected to administer Lupron to yourself. Do not do it if you do not know how to do it, or are unsure of the exact procedure. Ask the doctor, the pharmacist or any other medical practitioner that you contact with.

Estrogen Dominance — There Must Be A Better Way

Lupron is used for states induced by estrogen dominance. The proper solution to this problem is to heal the glands that produce the hormones, not to patch the state as it is. Here are some of the possible ways to do it:

. for the surplus of estrogen, take natural progesteron to counter balance;

. improve the diet,

. use Reiki to achieve overall energy balance,

. address the underlying (emotional) problems that actually cause the glands to not work properly,

. cure endometriosis or fibroids with a properly chosen homeopathic remedy.

Fixing Your Emotional Problems With Flower Remedies

Apart from Reiki, there are two main ways — flower remedies and EFT. With flower remedies, you can balance your emotional state and cut the energy flow to the impaired parts of the body. All tumors and cancers need energy to feed upon; put them on a “diet”, that is, eliminate bad emotions that these cells feed upon and you have won more than one half of the battle. The good news is that you do that at a very low cost or even free, especially compared to $400+ that you would have to pay for just one Lupron shot!

Flower remedies are very cheap and once you buy a bottle of a remedy you will be able to use it for many months and years. You may need up to seven bottles at a time, but you can also do with less. A treatement with one group of flower remedies usually lasts for a couple of weeks up to 2-3 months. The results are practically always favourable — I often recommend Bach flower remedies after a delineation of the natal chart and I have yet to enounter a case in which there were no results, sometimes spectacularly within a day or two!

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT as it is better known is a new development. It enables you to literally obliterate your negative emotions and thus free your body from imbalanced energies. There is extenstive clinical evidence that EFT is very useful for reducing or eliminating pain. For more details, see here.

Lupron — The Conclusion

Avoid it at all costs. If you need endometrial ablation, try NovaSure endometrial ablation, which needs no Lupron Depot. If that is not possible, read the rest of this site in order to come up with ideas which alternative healing methods would work in your case or just ask me directly.

Laparoscopic means it is done with special surgical instruments, practicaly with no visible scars, and certainly with no incisions on the stomach.

Supracervical can be roughly translated as “above the cervix”, since only those parts of the uterus are cut away.

This procedure is available since 1996, and has spread in North America in the years after that. It requires a very well informed and trained gynecological surgeon, with all the new equipment available to him or her. This is one of the weaknesses of this method: the number and availability of such surgeons is too small for the needs, so it isn’t uncommon to find such surgeons over the Internet and fly over half of a contintent or over half a world just in order to get operated the proper way for your gynecological problems.

Who is the Candidate For Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy?

Practically anyone with a diseased uterus and helthy cervix. This may mean the usual suspects such as uterine fibroids, endometriosis etc. but it is important to be clear that the cervix is not in danger, in other words, that there is no cancer. Also, there should be no prolapse of uterus.

If the fibroids are large enough, you may not be eligible for the procedure, but the doctor may be able to put you on a GnRH agonist in order to shrink the fibroids temporarily. Lupron is usually given in such situations, although it has its share of problems for the patient, who will suddenly be slammed into a temporarily menopause.

The Consequences of Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

The patient wakes from general anesthesia and remains for one night in the hospital. In general, they go home the next day and usually get well enough within a week. There is not much pain at all, and many patients do not need any medication for pain. (There is no pain since there is no large incision which would require days and weeks to recover and grow up again.)

Since laparoscopy requires carbondioxide in order to make room for the instruments within the body, the remaining gas accumulates and produces pain. Often, it will be under the right diaphragm and will feel like right shoulder pain. The incisions may feel sore for a few days but that will pass too. You may be required to revisit the facility one week after the surgery, for surgeons to see your overall progress in recovery.

Economic Benefits of Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

Generally, all patients get back to their normal lives a week or two weeks at most after the surgery. Some even play tennis a month after such hysterectomy! This is very significant, because in laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy the recovery period is 28 days, not to mention the classical hysterectomy, with its usual recovery period of 28 days in the least, up to 42 days at the most.

Apart from the obvious benefit to the patients, this can cut the costs significantly, say from more than $9200 to a half, about more than $4300. With the number of hysterectomies performed every day all over the world, the savings just grow astronomically.

Medical Benefits of Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

This type of hysterectomy leaves the cervix in place, with the following significant benefits:

Problems and Risks with Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

If the cervix is there, it can be attacked. The main problem seems to be cervical cancer, although in reality 0.1% of women will have it. That is why annual Pap smears are strongly recommended.

In a small number of cases, the surgeon will have to convert the laparoscopy into a full hysterectomy during the surgery. There is nothing you can do about since you will be under anesthesia, but try to discuss the probability of such occasions beforehand. In particular, ask the surgeon about his conversion rates — about 1% or so is very good, anything larger is a cause for an alarm on your side.

Conclusion About Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy

If you are a good candidate, ask your surgeon about it. He or she may not be in position to deliver this type of hysterectomy to you, so you may be forced to ask around or research the Internet further.

Or, as is the motto of this site, you can make your personal healing plan and thus avoid hysterectomy in the first place.

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The surgeons made a tiny incision and entered laparoscopic instruments to be able to see the inside organs. The surgeons very delicately worked around surrounding organs, separating the bladder, lifting up the uterus, separating the ovaries and the Fallopian tubes, and the cervix. Having cut out the blood supply, the only thing that remained to be done is to take the uterus out. In the very end, they used an instrument called the morcellator to take out the uterus (the procedure itself is called morcellation).

The morcellator is a hollow tube with blades in the end. It cuts the uterus into long, thin stripes, and that is how the uterus, even when it is five times bigger than its normal size, can be taken out through a 1.5 cm excision.

One of the advantages of laparoscopic surgery is that incisions are smaller, and are closed with a glue; in contrast to that, classical open stomach hysterectomy is centimeres larger and closed with staples. Also, the cervix is preserved (“supracervical” can be roughly translated as “above the cervix”, since only those parts of the uterus are cut away), which will later prevent the vagina from prolapsing and will enable better sex, or no pain during penetration throughout the intercourse.

Laparoscopic hysterectomy is fast becoming the de facto standard way of performing a hysterectomy, unless the woman has a bigger problem, such as cancer.

The surgeons in this laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy video were David Kmak M.D. and Paul Makela M.D. of WSU School of Medicine, filmed at Hutzel’s Woman Hospital.

Sometimes, the surgeon will prescribe Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, such as Depot Lupron, to be taken a month or two in advance. That will shrink the fibroids while being taken. The downside of using Lupron is a temporary menopause, with symptoms such as hot flashes, sweating and the like.

Before inserting the hysteroscope, the uterus is filled with either saline or carbon dioxide. Then the cervix is numbed, and when the instrument is finally in, the surgeon can actually seE what is inside — myomas, polyps, or something else that can cause bleedings as well. The entire procedure takes a minute or two and can be done in the office.

With the advance of thinner and better accompanying instruments, operative hysteroscopy can, in many cases, be a means to avoid hysterectomy. The resectoscope is very efficient tool and it is recommended that it be used only by surgeons who have extensive experience with it.

Advantages and the Follow-up To Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

The greatest advantage of hysteroscopic myomectomy is quick recovery time. The entire procedure can be done in an outpatient surgery center, under local anesthesia, or — which is what majority of women preferrs — under general anesthesia. The patient will usually experience the pain and bleeding after the procedure, but nothing too strong that couldn’t be regulated by oral pain medications. However, if the pain is severe or bleeding is heavy and bright red, the patient should return to the hospital immediately. Other risks would be bleeding and infection, but all surgeries could have that as an aftereffect.

The Success Rates of Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

Intracavitary and submucosal fibroids tend to produce heavy bleedings and if the hysteroscopic myomectomy was done correctly, the heavy periods should stop in 80 and 90 percent of all cases. Successful removal of one fibroid does not mean that others won’t grow again. About 20 percent of women need another fibroid treatment within ten years. As with other types of myomectomies, fertility is (or should be) preserved. Where large fibroids prevented fertility, pregnancy rates were high after hysteroscopic myomectomy.

Resectoscope can also be used to perform endometrial ablation, which is destroying the uterine lining (endometrium). This will permanently stop menstrual bleeding and the growth of certain types of fibroids, but will also destroy fertility. Endometrial ablation preserves the uterus, but at the price of permanently being unable to conceive. It is only for the women who have completed their childbearing.

There are many other methods for endometrial ablation, and practically all are explained within this site. For a list of energy healing methods that can directly destroy myoma of uterus, without any surgery at all, please visit our fibroid treatments page.

Hysterectomy side effects — what is in this surgery that frightens so many women?

Type of hysterectomy — the quality of your life from now on depends on the choice of hysterectomy that you discuss with your doctor.

Hysterectomy complications — there can be many, especially if some other kind of surgery (oopherectomy) went on simultaneously.

Recovery time after hysterectomy — you will discover that various types of hysterectomy call for various recovery times. Shorter recovery time is always better, provided the basic goals of surgery were successfuly met in the first place.

Reason for hysterectomy can be uterine fibroids, heavy or abnormal menstrual bleeding, uterine prolapse, endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, cancer of uterus, cervix or ovaries, inflammation of ovaries etc.

Alternatives To Hysterectomy are in two branches: surgical and from the alternative medicine. This entire site is devoted to alternatives to hysterectomy, especially from the energy healing point of view.

Hysterectomy decision There are four cases to consider — from worst to best.

Want to see how various types of hysterectomy look from the inside!? Then the hysterectomy video page is for you!

The number of videos on this site grows constantly (currently there are 24 and counting), so press Ctrl-D to bookmark this page and come back often.

Cancer of the Cervix Video

Laparoscopic Myomectomy

Laparoscopic Myomectomy Videos

Vaginal Hysterectomy Video

Second Vaginal Hysterectomy Video — taking the uterus out from an old lady.

Vaginal Hysterectomy Video With Morcellation

Vaginal Hysterectomy Video Treatment of Uterine Prolapse With Polypropylene Mesh

Uterus Model Video

Endometrial Ablation For Fibroids Video

Endometrial Ablation For Submucous Leiomyoma Video

Roller Ball Endometrial Ablation For Polyp Video

Hysteroscopy Of Intramural Fibroids Video

Polycystic Ovarian Disease Laparoscopy Video

Operative Hysteroscopy For Intrauterine Adhesions Video

Autofluorescent Laparoscopy Diagnosis of Endometriosis

Yoga and Menopause Video

Other videos on this site:

Dowsing and Muscle Testing Video

Pendulums

Basic Hand Positions of Reiki

If you know other videos appropriate for this site, please let me know through the contact page.

NOTA BENE. The videos are hosted elsewhere, so if they become unavalaible, please let me know about that as well.

The types of hysterectomy are usually given their own shortcuts and these are:

Type of Hysterectomy According to the Parts Removed

Total hysterectomy is taking out the entire uterus, altogether with cervix.

Many lay people wrongly think that the term “total” here means taking both the uterus and the ovaries, but that is not correct. The phrase “complete hysterectomy” is also frequently used to describe taking “everything out”.

Subtotal hysterectomy is taking out only the uterus, while leaving the cervix in place. Tubes and ovaries may or may not be removed. This procedure is always done through the abdomen.

In recent years, there is a heightened interest in subtotal hysterectomy, as the common sense dictates that the sexual enjoyment will be greater of the cervix is left in place. Contrary to that, hard evidence (interviewing women with and without cervix left in place after a hysterectomy) shows that sexual pleasure is the same with or without cervix out there.

After subtotal hysterectomy, a woman still needs to have regular Pap smears to prevent cervical cancer.

Radical hysterectomy is taking out not only the cervix, uterus and fallopian tubes, but also the upper third of the vagina and the tissues around the cervix. Radical hysterectomy really is a surgical way of removing the cancer of cervix, so the pelvic lymph glands will also be removed at this time. Ovaries may well be target for the radical hysterectomy, but it is up to your doctor to assess whether that should be so.

Should Ovaries Be Removed As Well?

The latin name of the ovaries is “oopher” and for the tubes, it is “salpinx”. So, oophorectomy is taking the ovaries out, and salpingo-oophorectomy is taking both the ovaries and the tubes out. If done on both sides, it will be called bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and is usually shorthened as “BSO”. If the surgeon believes that the cause for hysterectomy may endanger the ovaries as well, you will be offered a BSO together with the hysterectomy. It is important to ensure that the surgeon will not take the ovaries out only because it is convenient to him or her to do while you are already on the table. Taking the ovaries out will put you in the state of surgical menopause, meaning you will lack certain hormones for the rest of your life. It turns you into a perpetual customer for hormone replacements, so make it a joint decision before the surgery.

Type of Hysterectomy According to How the Uterus Is Removed

Vaginal hysterectomy is removing the uterus through the vagina. The presence of large uterine fibroids, large ovarian cysts, extensive endometriosis, or unexplained pelvic pain may stand in way of vaginal hysterectomy. But when it can be can safely be performed, vaginal hysterectomy generally involves fewer complications, a shorter recovery period and no visible scar.

Abdominal hysterectomy is removing the uterus through an incision in the abdomen. This is still the most common type of hysterectomy.

Total abdominal hysterectomy (or TAH), is removing the uterus with the cervix through the abdomen.

Laparoscopic hysterectomy (or LH) is perfoming the entire (or most of the) hysterectomy through the laparoscope.

Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (or LAVH) is using laparascope and completing the hysterectomy through the vagina.

Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (or LSH) is a relatively new procedure, from the mid 1990′s. It cuts away the body of the uterus, but leaves the cervix in place. Many say that this is the future of hysterectomy, so if you must have it, at least ask whether it is available in the operating “theatre near you”!?

Choosing the Right Type of Hysterectomy — Is TAH Better Than LH?

Given enough time to operate, laparoscopy is better. The incisions are smaller and in case of LAVH, there are no abdominal incisions at all. However, there are no hard data showing the LAVH is superior the TAH, provided, of course, that both types of operation can be done safely.

Laparoscopy is clearly better then classical surgery for gallbladder and ovarian cysts, since most of the problems the patient has comes from the incision and not from what is done in the inside. Hysterectomy is different in that regard, since the tissues around the uterus must heal as well. Although this means that the difference between a laparoscopic and classical hysterectomy is not that great after all, if possible, opt for laparoscopy.

Think Twice Before Deciding for the Type of Hysterectomy

Some types of hysterectomies involve removing other organs as well. There are several ways to classify a hysterectomy so discuss with your doctor the kind of hysterectomy recommended to you. If something rings false talking to the first doctor, ask for a second opinion. Be peristent and open yourself to learning new things and notions. Otherwise, why do you think your situation can change for the better if you continue with your old, bad ways!?

• personal interview (including questions about your sex life), a

• vaginal exam,

• Pap test,

• laboratory tests and/or

• imaging tests. Further measures may include

• endometrial biopsy,

• dilation and curettage (D&C)

• laparoscopy

etc..

The choices of therapies usually are

• surgery,

• medicines (usually the hormones), or

• “watchful waiting“.

This last means no treatment but seeing the doctor regurarly, to keep track of any new conditions or symptoms in your body.

Watchful Waiting

Unless you have severe symptoms already, hysterectomy is just not an option yet. It is this “watchful waiting” that is most dangerous. You may be sure that on one of your next visits the doctor will shake his or her hand and just say “I think you are facing a hysterectomy now.” Why didn’t they heal you before letting those fibroids grow so large? you ask yourself in despair, feeling cheated. Well, apart from a few scrooks found in every profession, your doctor would very much like to heal you — but just does not know how.

In spite of the perils of hysterectomy being known for decades by now, students of medicine all over the world still learn that it is normal to cut somebody’s dearest organs because

“you are 45, you’ve had your children, and what else do you need it for“.

Butchers? No. They do not treat you because they do not have official remedies to treat you with. If there was a remedy for uterine fibroids, they would prescribe it to you and be done away with it. But life is more complicated then a bunch of antibiotics. To cure somebody’s fibroids, or endo, or endometrial hyperplasia or whatever, you have to stop treating the consequences and dig into the roots of the problem. It is you, the patient, that led a wrong kind of life, and it is not doctor’s fault, no way. A severe illness requiring such a major surgery is a means to wake you up, the last call to a normal life for you.

What Will It Take To Mend My Life Again

Even with all the energy healing techniques discussed on this site you will not heal yourself if you concentrate only on one part of the body. It brings you pain allright, but only to remind you that your life has gone astray. If you want to heal only your uterus and ovaries without changing the life in general, then all this effort (including reading this site) will not be enough. With the next prolongued transits of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, it is very likely that there will be more illnesses coming your way, even if there is no uterus or ovaries to now operate upon. The uterus and ovaries act as a shield to other parts of the body. After hysterectomy they are not there anymore and the energy will bounce off to the house over which the Moon rules. To put it simply, certain areas of your life will become lame, seemingly without any reason. And if one of the houses in case is VI, VII or XII — the houses of illness — you will continue to be ill, or you will become ill in new ways, the ways you never experienced before.

Without uterus and ovaries you are not a woman any more. The balance is lost and must be found again. If you have no womb (uterus in Latin, but hystera in Greek), you become, well, hysterical. Sexual responses change. For minority of women, it becomes better, but all the others may just wishfully remind themselves and their partners of how it was before.
Both uterus and ovaries produce hormones, and after hysterectomy they force you to become a consumer for life. That is, if you can. Many women taking estrogen after hysterectomy find that their endometriosis or other symptoms just come back, so estrogen is not for everyone. Then vagina may go dry (a yet another way of diminishing sexual pleasure), then increased problems with the heart and arteries, then secondary male characteristics (some women grow beard after hysterectomy and have to shave it regularly)… A fun way to live the next 20, 30 or 40 years of your life!?

Stay Within the Health System

If you are in the lucky majority that can be helped through medical astrology (raising awareness) and energy healing (the actual healing), read the rest of this site then DO IT through this link. This is not to say that you should turn your back from the regular doctors, quite to the contrary.

You must be in the health system for your regular checkups — they have all those expensive laboratories, scanners etc. so use them to measure your progress. Whatever the treatment that is energetically indicated for you, the results must be visible and verifiable. The last thing you want is to blindly follow instructions from this or any other site and/or book and/or magazine! If possible, try to engage a professional for the chosen therapy, but beware of them as well! Some of them have this evangelistic approach to patients in dire need, trying to persuade them that their kind of (energy) healing is the right and the only possible one. To complicate things further, you will often find the representatives of the same energy healing technique bickering and talking badly one about another. That’s a trap too! Think only of your healing.

Be Persistent

If the methods you try do not bring results, quit and try something new. On the other hand, it may be possible that in the beginning it must be temporarily worse (the so-called aggravation) in order to be better later. Aggravation is somewhat expected in all natural healing methods, so ask the practitioner about it. In any case, try to ascertain before taking the remedy or therapy whether it can harm you. This is especially important for homeopathic remedies, which bring health to the ill but bring illnesses to the healthy.

Deciding whether to undergo hysterectomy or not is a decision that will literally change your life. Either way that you go, the consequences will be great. There are four possible outcomes:

Hysterectomy Decision Case 1)
You should undergo hysterectomy, but you don’t

This is the worst case, since you may suffer enormously and even die. Two most typical cases would be the presence of cancer and a uterus bleeding so much after giving birth that it threatens the life of the mother.

In about 20% of all cases, hysterectomy will be the only solution, especially in cases of uterine prolapse, and, of course, cancer.

This site wants to tell the other 80% women that they could actually avoid hysterectomy either by opting for a lesser surgery or by eventually healing themselves and thus making the surgery totally unnecessary.

Hysterectomy Decision Case 2)
You should undergo hysterectomy and that is exactly what you do

From the surgical point of view, this hysterectomy decision may be all good and well, but they can’t tell you in advance whether your problems will be greater or not after all is said and done. If it was cancer, the doctors will empty your lower stomach hoping that if there were no physical place for cancer to grow, that it will stop. If it only were so! Medical astrology is the only way of telling in advance whether the surgery would be sufficient or not. Please have a look at the page called Your Personal Healing Plan and subscribe to the free email course there; it will give you a rounded look at the options that are available to you for a relatively small effort and amount of money.

Hysterectomy Decision Case 3)
You shouldn’t undergo hysterectomy, but you still do

Sometimes the pain and sufferring are so great that you would anything to get rid of them… even if that means cutting off certain (vital) parts of your body. Or, you just don’t know any better and succumb to the usual hysterectomy scenario. Once they cut you off from your womanhood, there is no way to becoming a woman anymore.

Mission No. 1 of this site is to save you from this case. 15% of all hysterectomies are totally unnecessary. Doctors like to perform hysterectomy because it is easy for them to do, while all other forms of surgery require additional time to learn and practice… Why choose a more complicated and less paid surgery to do when you can finish a hysterectomy within half an hour and be paid $4000 in the process!?

If you ever wondered why the number of hysterectomies is highest in the world in the USA, re-read the previous paragraph.

About one third of all hysterectomies is for uterine fibroids, but there are so many other ways to get rid of them that it really pays to pay attention to this site and what it has to offer. See pages for homeopathic treatment for uterine fibroids and herbal remedies for uterine fibroids, as well as an astrohomeopathy case of uterine fibroids. Also, see Your Personal Healing Plan.

Hysterectomy Decision Case 4)
You shouldn’t undergo hysterectomy, and so you don’t

You choose one of the alternative surgical procedures — myomectomy, endometrial ablation, uterine artery embolization etc. — to save the uterus and/or ovaries, or — better — you find something in the alternative medicine to save you. Mission No. 2 of this site is to tell you which alternative disciplines can be useful for your diagnosis.

Whom To Consult With About Your Hysterectomy Decision

You may reach your hysterectomy decision all on your own, but most likely, you will be influenced by your medical doctors, surgeons and/or other health practitioners that you meet. Do not think, however, that they will give you all the necessary data to reach the proper decision. You should also ask your friends who have been in that situation before you, and you should certainly go to various sites and forums, read books, consult your relatives, husband and/or children…

Acquiring Information On Hysterectomy Complications

You can read books and ebooks about hysterectomy, you can go to forums, groups, be on relevant lists and so on. You can also talk to other “live and real” friends of yours who have already had their hysterectomy, and see how and what they did after the surgery. Whatever you hear, take it with a grain of salt: women tend to talk only about what was problem to them, minimizing at the same time the real difficulties that have been resolved either automatically or with the help of a health professional.

Talk to the doctors too, although there is no need to frequent their forums and groups (unless you are at the same trade as they). You will see that professionals that will actually operate upon you will not talk much about what can happen afterwards, while your friends physicians and medical doctors, will be more open. The surgeon is not interested in discussing theory with you, they want you to get better and well as soon as possible! They will, then, concentrate only on what matters to you before the surgery, leaving possible hysterectomy complications for later, hoping not too many will happen to you, if they appear at all.

If you have never heard of something that is happening to you, it does not mean that the surgeon did something wrong. Every surgery is a calculated bet, with lots of potential for surprises.

“Hysterectomy Complications” May Stem From Some Other Kinds of Surgery

You may have done all the tests and examinations, but the moment of truth is when the surgeon opens you and sees the state firsthand. Your elegantly designed laparoscopy may turn itself into a full incision from one hip to another, while other parts of the body may have to be reached: some of them may have in the original outline for the surgery anyway, while some may come as a surprise both to the surgeon during the “show” and to you, when they tell you about afterwards. Maybe the ovaries must be removed, or there is a cystocele or a rectocele present and must done away with.

In case of an oophorectomy (removing one or both ovaries), surgical menopause will have hit you like a ton of bricks and it may not be clear whether the problems arise from the lack of organs or from the lack of hormones (or both). But, the patient will experience all of those as “hysterectomy complications”.

Amongst Hysterectomy Complications, Vaginal Bleeding Is the Most Common

The usual course of post operative bleeding will last from several days to several weeks after the surgery. There may be several phases:

In rare cases, some bleeding might occur many months or even several years after the surgery:

Common Hysterectomy Complications

Here are some of the usual postoperative symptoms within two weeks:

Urinary tract frequency and urgency

In other words, you have much too frequent calls to urinate. Three things have to be checked for:

Incisional problems

Gastrointestinal problems

Vaginal problems

Mood changes

Pain

General problems

Severe Hysterectomy Complications

Most of the severe hysterectomy complications of surgery will show themselves within the first 2-3 weeks after the operation although sometimes these can manifest even later.

Major Hysterectomy Complications

There can also be major hysterectomy complications that show themselves later than 3 or 4 weeks after surgery.

The Rare Or Unusual Hysterectomy Complications

Many of the complications mentioned above are uncommon. There are some even rarer problems that may occur.

1) Instead of classical hysterectomy, is there any other kind of hysterectomy that might suit you better? In particular, if it needs to be hysterectomy after all, is there a less invasive variant such as laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy!?

Or, there may be a classical surgical procedure that eliminates the need for hysterectomy, such as abdominal myomectomy.

2) Is there another kind of surgery that might override the need for hysterectomy? If it can be a minimally invasive type of surgery, with short hospital stay and rapid recovery aftermath, so much the better. In this hysterectomy scenario, you trade one cumbersome surgery for another.

Laparoscopic and hysteroscopic procedures may fit the bill here perfectly, ditto for the many types of endometrial ablation.

3) Finally, how about healing yourself without any kind of surgery at all? (Hint, hint — this is what this site is all about!)

Surgical Hysterectomy Alternatives For Uterine Fibroids

If you want to preserve fertility and you have a case of uterine fibroids (myoma), go for myomectomy, which can be abdominal or vaginal (hysteroscopic myomectomy), and there also is laparoscopic myomectomy. If childbearing is not important any more, you can opt for endometrial ablation, which destroys endometrium, the inner layer of the uterus, but preserves the rest of the uterus intact.

Myolysis is destruction of fibroids by methods such as electric electrodes, laser beams, freezing (cryo techniques). Myolysis has been in use since the 1990s and is generally abandoned as a treatment for uterine fibroids. because any error in surgery will finally lead to hysterectomy.

A relatively new method of avoiding hysterectomy is uterine artery embolization, often shorthened as UAE. Tiny particles are injected into the uterine arteries and fibroids connected to that artery lose food. In theory, the result is that 40-60% of the fibroids shrink and the symptoms disappear, however, currently this procedure is only at the “investigational level”, which means it is not readily recommended by the gynecologist. The list of what can go wrong after UAE is too long for anybody’s comfort so you would do well to investigate all other options before taking a plunge into uterine artery embolization direction.

Another new method for shrinking fibroids is MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery. The patient lies on her back ultrasound waves are guided through the Magnetic Resonance Imagery. The method is still new, so that not many such machines exists in the USA and still less in the rest of the world. The future of this method — its long term results and complications are still unknown.

Adhesiolysis is cutting adhesions, tissue that binds otherwise separated pelvic organs. About 20% of women have problems because of such adhesions, which arise from an injury such as previous pelvic or abdominal surgery, infections, endometriosis, cancer or radiation therapy, intra-abdominal trauma, say from ectopic pregnancy, appendicitis etc.

Surgical Hysterectomy Alternatives For Adenomyosis

Adenomyosis is the penetration and growth of endometrial tissue into the endometrium. It is also called the internal endometriosis, because just like in ordinary endomtriosis, the abnomally located endometrial tissue follows the flow of sexual hormones and bleeds with the menses. In the end, the uterus becomes swollen, often larger and globular. Localized state of adenomyosis is called adenomyoma, which look like other uterine masses, especially the fibroids. The main difference is that the fibroids can be cut away with relative ease, while the adenomyoma go deep into the uterine muscle. Therefore, removing the adenomyoma must at the same time be removing of a part of the uterus itself.

There may be pregnancy if the adenomyoma are present, but for many women who cannot get pregnant and have no other symptoms, the presence of adenomyoma must be suspected and examined for. It is best done through MRI — magnetic resonance imagining, or through a high resolution vaginal ultrasound. It is important that the results be examined by a true expert, because then the adenomyoma can be located in more than 90% of cases. If the presence of adenomyoma is not discovered, the patient may have strong dysfunctional uterine bleeding, which will, in the end, lead to hysterectomy, because of the nespecific treatment.

As far as surgeries go, it is possible to cut away the part of the uterus with the adenomyoma, and then to repair the rest. There cannot be a pregnancy after such an intervention, but the uterus and the ovaries remain as intact as possible, while the dysfunctional bleeding stops. In many cases, such a solution is more than enough and the main goal is achieved — the hysterectomy is avoided for good.

Surgical Hysterectomy Alternatives For Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding

DUB is excessive uterine bleeding which is not cause by an organic condition. DUB is present if none of the following is present: endometrial polyps, uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, endometrial or cervical cancer, pelvic infection including endometritis (infection of the lining of the uterus), endometriosis, polycystic ovarian disease, ovarian cyst or tumor, thyroid dysfunction (hypo- or hyperthyroidism) or blood clotting abnormalities (coagulopathy). All these must be excluded in order to make a proper diagnosis. Without that proper diagnosis, the treatment will fail, so no wonder that in the USA 20% of hysterectomies go under the cover of DUB.

Endometrial ablation usually resolves 70-80% of DUB cases. However, some 25% of the patients continue with the bleedings, and may have to undergo repeated ablations. Even that is (much) better than the all-ending hysterectomy — if you get diagnosed with DUB, be persistent and undertake as many examinations as needed, until the true cause of the bleeding is found. Once it is found, you can be cured and hysterectomy will stop being an excuse for improper diagnosing or the lack of will to perform it.

Surgical Hysterectomy Alternatives For Endometriosis

Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. Just as in the uterus itself, the endometrial tissue follows the pattern of hormonal excretions and “prepares” itself for the conception. It leads to local bleeding, irritation, scars forming of adhesions, and inflammation. The best known example are so-called chocolate cysts (endometriomas), cysts of the ovaries which contain old blood, which on the ultrasound are seen in the color of chocolate.

19% of all hysterectomies in the USA are due to endometriosis, which is a pity in itself. Namely, up to 63% of patients that had hysterectomy for endometriosis still had recurrent problems which led them to the hysterectomy in the first place. In other words, hysterectomy is not a quality answer to endometriosis, unless practically all the symptoms were located around the uterus and ovaries.

Surgery to resolve endometriosis has its place if it’s aim is to resect or destroy endometriotic implants, remove the chocolate cyst, remove pelvic adhesions and perform turboplasty, which is repairing obstructed falopian tubes. It is also possible to cut off the nerves that provide sensation to the uterus and lower uterine segment, which helps to permanently relieve the menstrual pain in a bit more than 50% of cases. Such an operation is called laparoscopic uterosacral nerve ablation, and it is also possible to do a presacral neurectomy which severes nerve fibers which convey pain from the uterus and pelvic floor.

All in all, hysterectomy for endometriosis may help here and there, but is far from magic wand. Homeopathy for endometriosis will do for you much more than you think is possible, if applied properly and before the surgery.

Energy Healing Methods As Hysterectomy Alternatives

There also are energy healing methods that can act as hysterectomy alternatives. One of them might just be your ticket to get better without any surgery at all!

Hysterectomy Side Effects on the Vagina

The vagina may be shortened, scarred and/or dislocated by hysterectomy. Often, it ends up shorter than it used to be, especially if the cervix is taken out as well. (It may lead to curious situations: through my astrological practice, I once met a women with this condition, and after hysterectomy she had sexual relationship with a man with a small penis; he was hooked so much that she had to change the phone number in order to hide from him when she decided to break up the relationship!)

Hysterectomy Side Effects for the Heart

The decrease in producing of the hormones, especially estrogen, has serious consequences for the heart and blood flow. In the studies that were conducted in 1990′s, the outcome was that estrogen prevented from having more serious problems with the heart. In a more recent study, from 2003 to 2005, which was controlled in contrast to those first studies, it says that women who use estrogen may face a slightly higher risk of heart attacks and strokes over women who do not use estrogen. This is an important new development so blindly taking hormones after hysterectomy is not a wise idea.

While this may be conflicting information, one thing remains clear: if you do take hormonal replacement therapy and smoke at the same time, the risks for your heart are much bigger than usual. If and while on HRT, don’t smoke, and that’s it.

Other patients that should not use HRT because of cardiovascular problems include those with

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is one of the most frequent consequences of hysterectomy. Estrogen production falls, but progesterone production falls even more, and this disbalance ends up as osteoporosis. The solution is to take (natural) progesterone back, usually in the form of a creme or as a homeopathic remedy.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Joints, Muscle Pain and Immobility

Bone, joint and muscle pain and immobility is not frequently connected with the hormones, but that is exactly the mechanism. The solution is to regain the hormonal balance, and not to poison the patients with corticosteroids…

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Sex

Good sex depends on the proper hormonal mix, both in the male and in the female. If there is a so-called Estrogen Dominance, a state in which there is an unproportional difference in levels of estrogen as compared to the levels of progesterone, woman will lose appetite for sex, will not be able to be aroused sexually and so on. Please see our page on sex after hysterectomy, for additional information.

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Vaginal Dryness and Painful Intercourse

Lower levels of estrogen will produce vaginal dryness, a state in which penis cannot easily enter the vagina and the intercourse becomes painful. It can be painful both for the man and for the woman, each with his and her bag of problems. After a while, both partners agree that the intercourse is not possible, until something changes.

There are various solutions to this well-known problem. One is to apply lubricants, the other — and much more fundamental at that — is to remedy the hormonal disbalance. Yet another approach is to wait it out, later things may get better (this is my advice if the vaginal dryness can be seen in the natal chart as a transit of Saturn over natal Venus).

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Pelvic Organs

After the surgery, the uterus will not be there any more, and the surrounding organs will naturally fall in that place. At that, the bladder, bowels, and other pelvic organs can become displaced, which can lead to lifelong series of problems. Not all hysterectomies are “happy ones”.

Hysterectomy Side Effects On the Urinary Tract

This is a similar problem: after the hysterectomy you may have frequent urinary tract infections, frequent calls to urinations, incontinence (the inability to hold urine for long). This can seriously disrupt the quality of life — imagine not being able to go out of the house for fear of urinating all over yourself in public! If the nerve that regulates the bladder is cut during the surgery, urinary problems will be with you to the end of your days!

Hysterectomy Side Effects In Digestive Disorders

Chronic constipation and other digestive disorders may result after the hysterectomy. Adhesions to the pelvic floor may happen, or some nerves can be cut in this area.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Fatigue

You can expect profound fatigue after the operation, but for many women it will become a norm even after the operation is long gone. It is yet another possible consequence of surgical menopause. The key to resolving this again is finding the proper hormonal balance, either through herbal teas, homeopathic remedies or some other alternative method.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Chronic Exhaustion

Chronic exhaustion can result from many causes, but it all boils down to overworked adrenal glands. Fix the hormones, and the rest will fix itself.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and the Loss of Short-term Memory

Loss of short-term memory after hysterectomy comes from the worsening of blood circulation in the brain. In menopause, it is imperative to retain good circulation in the brain and you should consider taking either pharmeceutical means or alternative medicine treatment. One of the best is Gingko-Biloba, you will feel refreshed in the brain, simply because the brain will have more food to work with.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Hysterical Behaviour

After hysterectomy, you can expect your character to change for the worse. The word “hystera” in Greek means womb (uterus in Latin) and it was soon noticed that the women without a womb have blunting of emotions, personality changes, despondency, irritability, anger, reclusiveness and suicidal thinking. They easily break out in anger, talk in haste, oftentimes communicating more with their unconsciousness then with explicit words. It is exactly after these women that this entire way of behaving was called “hysterical”. Modern medicine views body as if it were a depot of broken parts and organs, impatiently waiting to mend it. So many doctors should know better, and yet they still think that the uterus is only babies to develop and then come out in pain. Once you’ve had your babies, you don’t need it — they say quite openly. Nothing could be farther from truth. Both the ovaries and the uterus function throughout the life time of a woman, and they never cease to take active part in the body. Living without them is abnormal, and unless there already is cancer developed somewhere, they should not be taken out.

So, what is the role of the uterus? It is an organ of emotions, just like the pancreas. While both men and women have pancreas, only women have uterus, and it is their organ to store and feel their own emotions, as well as to reach out and feel other people’s emotions. The reason these organs get ill are the unresolved emotions, which are unspent elsewhere in the body and get burried in the uterus and/or ovaries. There these emotions become food for abnormal growts, such as cancer, myoma, polyps, adhesions etc. The uterus “sees” that something is going on in the body, but it gets only the neuro-impulses, originating in the brain. The excitement catches on but the brain know what it is all about, and the uterus doesn’t. But it will still store the energy in itself and that is how the illness begins.

Hysterectomy Side Effects in Astrology

In astrology, the neurological excitement is symbolized by Uranus, while the Moon represents the organs. If the Moon is badly placed, then it will not know by itself what to do with the additional energy and will store it as polyps, myoma etc. Such placements could be

Even if these placements are not all present in the natal chart, they can enter the picture through progressions, synastry, through a solar chart etc. If three of these predicaments are found at the same time in any of these charts, the illness will develop. In case of Saturn, it can easily become cancer.

i have been diagnosed with uterine fibroids two months ago.it has been one year since my periods became irregular.seeing a doctor has not helped me.i often experience heavy prolonged bleeding which is making my life hell.i do not know what to do.i would be glad if you suggest me some way out.

continous bleeding was there. how to stop it

Hi, I would like to make analysis on me, my possible sicknesses especially in gynaecological field. Right now I have got a tough period in my life and really got lost don’t know what I have done wrong and what I should do to change my future. Everything just crushed on me.I am xx years old still married have son x years old. Right now in divorcing process and got diagnosed for ovarian cystadenoma with cancer suspicion.

just had an MRI to confirm that I have 6 6cm fibroids and 24 1/2 cm. Can you help me?

So, what happened next. I always told them the price for my services, which do not come cheap, and I never heard from any of them again.

For some reason, people think that everything must be free on the Internet. For starters, your very presence on the Internet is the sign that you have paid your ISP for the access to the Internet, and you also have paid for that computer and that mouse that you are touching right now. That’s not free either. However, the ease of clicking here and there forces a wrong impression on the brain, that everything else must happen with that same ease…

Well, in case of this site, that is not the case. I am just alive as you are and I do horoscopes for money. I am a professional astrologer for 19 years by now, working full time since 2002. The problem is that the visitors of this site come here in pain, fear and distress, quite in agony, so to speak.

That is not my typical customer, which, under the long influence of Uranus, becomes mentally restless and wants to mentall shrugg it off, by means of calling the astrologer (which is also ruled by Uranus). So when she asks “how to stop continuous bleeding”, she is not in for a mental answer, she’s in for a medical
answer.

Do this, and the bleeding will stop.

Do that, and the bleeding will never appear again.

Take this pill, and your fibroids will stop growing.

I am not a doctor, and although I can heal, I am not a healer either. I am what only a few people on this planet do, a medical astrologer. And I am the first to tell you that if you are not open to my frequences, so to speak, there is no point in ordering a reading from me. And being in pain, shock, and distress most certainly is not a good grounds to order a reading, not even mentioning that you actually have no idea whether I’m a scammer, or someone who genuinely can help, and actually does help people.

On one level, ordering a reading is just paying for talk. On a deeper level, that talk is just what you need to listen to in order to sort out your life. On the action level, medical astrological reading can lead to

A) deciding which of the alternative therapies can help you now and in the future,

B) prescribing precisely those measures that can help you in the best possible manner.

For some women, the change needed will have to come in the area of food and digestion, for some others, in the form of homeopathic and/or flower remedies, for still others, the best therapy could be Reiki… and for still others, the best therapy would be to leave the husband that they are currently living with!?

There is no point in ordering a reading unless you want to change your lifestyle so that you get healthier as the time goes by.

Which is, after all, the reason practically no one out of the 200 to 400 real visitors to this site daily, orders a medical astrology reading from me.

If I knew that, I would have never had made a site like in the first place.

So much for the astrology as a business on this site. And I cannot even try to help as a an alternative healer, because you never give sufficient data. For instance, I am quite good at homeopathy, and I have developed my own system of choosing the right remedy (or the most probable combination of the remedies), but if you just say “bleeding here, can you stop it”, there is no grounds to prescribe the remedy correctly. A homeopathic interview lasts from one to three hours, and here I’d have to base the remedy on one half of the sentence. No can do!

My method is the best out there. Both the doctors and the healers take into account only one variable — the state of the patient, while with medical astrology, I take into account the time. For instance, a transit of Saturn to the natal Sun may take anywhere from several weeks up to 12-15 months. The person gets depressed with each day of such transits. On the other hand, the usual period to take Bach flower remedies for depression is 2-3 months, which in this case, would be way too short.

I hope this makes things clearer a bit.

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Your doctor may reach for a hormonal therapy which will induce a temporary menopause. The fibroids do stop to grow and you get hot flashes, dry vagina and all sorts of negative aspects of a true menopause. Once the hormonal therapy stops, the fibroids usually return with a vengeance. In western medicine, nothing else is to “help you” so the good doctor spread his hands, hangs up his shoulders and tell you about the imminent hysterectomy. You struggle and succumb after a while, and then tell everyone how it was the best thing you ever did in your entire life, how you do not know why it took you so long to decide and so on, ad nauseam and ad infinitum.

That whole situation is researched and statistically processed, so it is a realistic scenario to which “watching and waiting” is leading you to.

A gringa in New Orleans has a good post on seven reasons why she wouldn’t like to have a hysterectomy. Here is my comment on her blog:

I run a site on how to avoid hysterectomy. I can only aplaude your willingness to try something else than the western medicine and their ultimate chopping solution known as the hysterectomy.

Anything under the sun needs food to grow, and your fibroids are no exception. The food which helps fibroids to grow are your emotions. There must be some emotional leakage in your life so fixing that will make a platform for all other alternative techniques to heal you.

In terms of physiology, the emotional leakage is known as “oestrogen dominance”. Fibroids come about because the estrogen receptors are stimulated too much, regardless of your periods and usual hormonal flows. So make your emotional peace and that will be the start of healing.

What would be your reasons to not have a hysterectomy? Make a list of abstract reasons and then make a parallel list of actions you would undertake to actually avoid the hysterectomy.

See the start of the main article of this site, How To Avoid Hysterectomy, for further information about hysterectomy and methods and techniques to either cure it or to switch to a lesser, non-invasive uterus-preserving kinds of surgery.

– to stop doing the D&Cs, which were uncomfortable and painful,

– to go in for a chemo therapy, or

– to go all the way down and have a hysterectomy.

Here is my comment to this situation:

Doctors deal with patients, ie with people that have some discomfort, pain, illness etc. It is all too easy to screw up and make patient feel and behave much worse instead of much better. Doctors would like us to believe that they are omnipotent, as if when they wear their official white wardrobes they become powerful wizards, be all, end all, cure all. In reality, they are just humans willing to help and they might have some ready to use knowledge that patients find welcome.

So far so good, you go to a doctor, he or she tells you what to do, and that often helps. But what about those cases when doctors cannot help, or worse, when the things they suggest and do make everything worse on their own!? That is why doctors work within procedures: each problem you throw at them, they respond through a set of fairly rigids official procedures. It is this word official that is the problem here.

What is official and how do doctors learn about what is official? Official is what some body or committee of doctors says it is official. That is, they get together, two or three doctors that are at the foremost of the research tell others what should be done and how, and a new procedure is born. Each practicing doctor is then responsible not for healing a patient but for applying the right procedure in the proper way. There is a huge difference between healing or curing and applying a proper procedure and that what this comment is all about.

In the above post, the doctor suggested three separate things, none of which is aimed at curing or healing or advancing the health of the patient. He or she is bound by the available procedures for the patient’s situation, but if none of the procedures is going to work, then what — he doesn’t really care! He has done everything he could according to the trade he is in, but how will that help the patient to have a child, in this case? The doctor is legally covered and he can even be sympathetic to the patient, wishing her every good in the world, but he still is bound by his chosen profession.

The senseless D&Cs really should have been stopped, or at least a hysteroscopy should have been performed, in which the doctor can actually see something inside the uterus. There are videos on YouTube ( Hysteroscopy Of Intramural Fibroids Video and Operative Hysteroscopy For Intrauterine Adhesions Video) so everybody can see what it looks like.

The chemo therapy as it is called here is not a chemo therapy in the sense of someone having cancer and then applying a chemo therapy, here it is a hormonal therapy aimed at resolving the symptoms. Finally, the most horrible idea is to have a hysterectomy because there will never be babies after that. But all this is leading to a hysterectomy, the situation that this doctor is leading his patient to has even been statistically researched, and the conclusion was that hysterectomy was inevitable when “everything” was tried, including the hormonal treatment.

We are all too ready to believe everything the good doctor says, but in this case and in all cases such as this, there is a lot to try and do inbetween the symptoms and final solution, i.e. hysterectomy. There is homeopathy, there is Reiki, Su Jok, acupuncture, enzyme mixtures, herbal remedies, crystal therapy… as well as many others, none of which is in the domain of our good doctor because the official medicine didn’t approve any of them.

I wish your friend all the best, and especially not only to get well but to have that baby finally. Life with a baby of your own is what life on this planet is all about.

Sincerely, Dusko Savic
medical astrologer

If you have to prepare for hysterectomy, there is plenty of advice on the Internet, and you might even want to invest into a paper book on the subject. In the comment to a post from someone who is in this situation, I have outlined two other possibilities for getting better sooner:

I see you are having a scheduled hysterectomy. As with any surgery, it pays to prepare up front. The most practical advice is to take Rescue Remedy a week or two before the surgery, and several days immediately after the surgery. It will help both with fear from surgery and with waking up from anesthesia.

Another practical advice would be to get initiated into Reiki or that somebody near you get initiated, so that you have regular access to Reiki treatments. That will considerably speed up the recovery and lessen or very soon eliminate the pains.

The fastest way to get Reiki is from my Energy Pack page on this site, and Rescue Remedy should be readily available from any online or offline store.

An Intrauterine Device (IUD) is inserted into the cervix and into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. It is not noticeable during the intercourse and can last from 1 up to 10 years. The role of an IUD is to change the lining of the uterus and fallopian tubes, changing the way eggs and sperm move so that fertilization does not occur. Several problems that an IUD can bring are heavier menstrual bleeding, piercing or perforation of the uterine wall, any vaginal infection can result in permanent infertility and so on.

Here is one blog post, by Sockpuppet, in which she says

I had made up my mind at the end of last year that I was in too much pain to continue dealing with my endometriosis. Went to my dr. discussed options and had decided to have a hysterectomy. (much to my drs. disappointment) A couple of weeks went by, I started talking to women going through the same pain and stress. I read up on hysterectomies and then I started reading up on IUDs. Alot of information is out there about IUDs and alot of it came back to the IUD actually causing my pain. I made another decision. Let’s take the IUD out, see if the pain changes. If it doesn’t then okay, if it does then we’ll see. I went in told my dr what I wanted to do, he agreed. It was as though he literally pulled the pain away from my body when he took out the IUD!! I had been in such life altering pain before that… to the point that I had to force myself to function, or to get out of bed. It was a nightmare.

She then switched to the pill and cancelled the hysterectomy. A happy ending and not a happy hysterectomy! Congratulations!

In the rest of the post she wonders whether to have one more baby or not. Here is my comment to the entire post:

Thank you for this post. I have a site on how to avoid hysterectomy and here you are, changing the state of the things, taking the IUD out, and cancelling the hysterectomy in consequence! Bravo! Now you have a chance to have a second baby!

BTW, having a second baby is more work, but it’s not really double the work you already do for one child. Think of it as of a gift to Lulu. If you do have a second baby, she will have a sibling for life:

another birthday party each year,

mutual support for life,

someone to play with and be angry at…

I don’t believe the state of the economy has anything to do with having babies. After all, now we live better than our parents, but that did not stop them from having you and me.

Wishing you all the best, and

Sincerely, Dusko Savic

So what about you? Would you have one more child if you did not have a hysterectomy?

Here’s a comparative study, with the full name of

Uterine artery embolisation or hysterectomy for the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids: a cost-utility analysis of the HOPEFUL study

by Wu, O. and Briggs, A.H. and Dutton, S. and Hirst, A. and Maresh, M. and Nicholson, A. and McPherson, K. (2007), and published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 114(11):pp. 1352-1362.

They wanted to see which procedure should be favourized from the standpoint of UK NHS. There were 649 women who underwent UAE (Uterine Artery Embolisation) and were followed for the 8.6 years in average, while there were 459 women with hysterectomy, which were followed for up to 4.6 in average.

Two main measures were the Costs of procedures and complications, and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) UAE had the lower cost, £2536 versus £3282, small reduction in quality of life (8.203 versus 8.241 QALYs) when compared with hysterectomy. However, when the quality of life associated with the conservation of the uterus was incorporated in the model, UAE was shown to be the dominant strategy—lower costs and greater QALYs.

The result of the study is that simply more women should be allowed to UAE instead of going directly to hysterectomy. This is especially important if the woman wants to preserve her uterus.

The abstract of the Uterine Artery Embolisation or Hysterectomy For the Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids study is published by the University of Glasgow.

PMDD is similar to premenstrual syndrome (PMS), but differs from it in severity. She is anxious, full of anger, there is depression as well. Irritability runs amok. The symptoms surface between ovulation and menstruation, and disappear within a few days after the onset of the bleeding. The main symptoms may consist of the following:

• feelings of sadness or despair, or possibly suicidal thoughts
• feelings of tension or anxiety
• panic attacks
• mood swings, crying
• lasting irritability or anger, increased interpersonal conflicts
• disinterest in daily activities and relationships
• trouble thinking or focusing
• tiredness or low energy
• food cravings or binge eating
• having trouble sleeping
• feeling out of control
• physical symptoms, such as bloating, heart palpitations, breast tenderness, headaches, and joint or muscle pain

Five or more of these symptoms may indicate PMDD. Symptoms occur during the week before the menstrual cycle and disappear within a few days after the onset of the bleeding.

No wonder women with PMDD start wanting to have a hysterectomy, thinking it will erase the pain.

PMDD Alternative Medicine Therapy

In the USA, PMDD is recognized as a disease, while in other parts of the world, that simply isn’t so. Nevertheless, PMDD should be treated and there are several alternative medicine disciplines that might land a hand here. From homeopathy, Cimicifuga Racemosa, Black Cohosh, comes to mind, because it links severe menstrual disorder with the idea of suicide. From Bach Flower Remedies, one might think of

Cherry Plum, to stop from suicidal actions,

Mimulus from being fearful when “that time of the month” starts approaching,

Impatiens to regulate pain,

Gorse to finally find some new way of healing.

Mustard and Gentian are also a must to relieve depression.

Reiki would be excellent here, as anybody can apply it and it will alleviate the pain at first, and then work towards the general healing. If you apply Reiki towards an affirmation such as

I want to find the best way to cure my PMDD

new doors be start to open to you. The consequence of giving Reiki to such an affirmation is that new methods of healing may enter your life, so even if Reiki would lead to homeopathy or something else, it would still be acceptable!

So, there you go! If you suffer from PMDD, please try out this PMDD Alternative Medicine Therapy and let us know the results through the comments on this page.

Hi

Well, thank you for sharing this. Since I am into medical astrology and energy healing I’ll give my advice in spite of you not asking for it. In case it is somehow unsuitable, please delete this comment.

There is a homeopathic remedy called Cimicifuga Racemosa which fits well into the state of post-partum depression. You should check it out with a professional homeopath, if you can find one near you.

In Bach flower remedies, you should check Cherry Plum and White Chestnut, but if you already have a bottle of Rescue Remedy in house, please take that for at least three months at least four times a day.

You can also try Reiki treatments. If you cannot find someone to physically give you a treatment, you can try distant healing, look for an Energy Pack on my site www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com.

You can and you will get better, but it is not probable that hysterectomy will solve anything, you know. Do not rush things, if you really want to know what is best for you, take a Bach flower remedy called Wild Oat.

I apologise if this is not a comment that you are accustomed to have, but I try to be practical.

And by the way, there are no affiliate links in this comment, everything I mentioned is free or is very low cost at the usual prices.

Do get well, though.

No, life goes on.

Life with a husband you luv with certainly with no kids of your own?

Then you decide to adopt… a 10-month old Chinese girl.

Read the rest of this beautiful story, how it all happened to BETTY J. MEYER from Chipsake.

– abdominal pain,

– acute pain,

– agony,

– back pain,

– chronic pain,

– pain after surgery,

– pain and depression,

– pain during sexual intercourse,

– pain in the uterus,

– pain in the ovaries,

– pain during urination,

– pain during bowel movements

and so on.

Reiki can be applied as a universal remedy for pain. It is ideal in this regards because it is possible to apply it without knowing anything about the diagnosis, nature of the disease and so on. You can manage pain with Reiki because it is not actually you who are healing, it is Reiki itself, a loving intelligent energy of healing.

Sometimes you will be able to manage pain with Reiki and nothing else, but in many cases the process or healing or recovery will be speeded up if you apply other alternative medicine techniques, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, Bach flower remedies and so on.  If you are too debilitated to contemplate all this, ask the people you live with to fetch remedies for you or learn how to apply them to you.

The patient undervent operation because of intestinal obstruction of an unknown nature. The surgeon called her husband and told him that he saw cancer and the uterus and the ovaries had to go. Another surgeon, a specialist in gynecology was called in, and a full hystererectomy was performed. It is only after the surgery that the tissue was examined pathologically, and of course, there was not one slight bit of cancer or any other tumor. The patient was put on hormonal therapy, and died a few years later of breast cancer.

Do you think this cannot happen to you? Well, it happened to Tamar Barnea, in Haifa, Israel, when she was only 27 years old; she died in July 2004.

You can read the whole story here, Haifa doctors get 2-month suspension for wrongful hysterectomy.

It is stories like this that keep me going to write this blog. If you are to have a hysterectomy, your best option is to read this site in its entirety, choose how you want to heal yourself, and then start working towards that solution.

I had to ask. If I have no cancer why would you put me at risk for major surgery for no reason? H was speechless for a moment, then stuttered slightly and said it was the hospital’s standard treatment. Then his mind was back in gear and he said that was down the road and we could talk about the risks involved with surgery versus having to get repeat paps and biopsies for years.

I have to wonder if there is a quota system for hysterectomies. Is there some national population control effort to give hysterectomies to healthy women? I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but why?

This is exactly how it sounds to me, by the way, except that I can, through medical astrology, tell in advance whether the thing will really develop towards cancer or not. (You would expect the learned doctors to be able to do that, but no, all they operate is based on the actual findings such as smears, Pap tests etc.)

Here is my comment on Mary’s blog:

Hi

I have read the newer parts of your blog with great interest and I have skimmed through the older parts as well. Yours is a classic story of what happens to the women in the USA. They start having certain gynecological problems and then “down the road” as your doctor has put it, they offer you a hysterectomy. They try to talk you into it, although in majority of cases, there is no real reason to do that. Indeed, if there is no cancer in sight, and you are otherwise healthy, why butcher your own body and expressly, at that?

Mary, there is a long road in front of you, but you have done what is actually needed: you have changed your life, starting with what you eat. That is the most important part of the equation, and now you need to find a modus of alternative treatment that you can apply on yourself, eventually, with low costs involved, and neither should you stop there. The more alternative treatments that you have in your disposal, the better. So, more learning is in order, and then you need to incorporate all that into your everyday life. But all of that is better than being cut for no reason at all!

I wish you all the best and I’ll try return to your blog within a few weeks to see what happens to you next.

Sincerely, Dusko Savic
the author of www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com

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Has something like that happened to you!? Please comment!

Here is this beautiful post by Sabrina Prindiville. A mother of five, last winter she was diagnosed with a lump on her thyroid. For two long weeks she waited for the results, only to learn that the tumor is benign. And then, another tumor, which needed a hysterectomy. Touched by the thoughts of death, just when she found out that her 18 year old oldest son and his girlfriend were pregnant… We always know life is fragile, but do our best to conveniently keep forgetting it… until a surgery comes along, or we start thinking how our children would grow without us… or… or… or…

So her hysterectomy taught her to laugh more, whine less and hug her children a little longer. She also found the courage to compete and win a new career position, because it’s change or die, but you’re gonna die anyway one day, so why not change now and grab the life that you were born to and into?

ASTROLOGER’S NOTE

The moment I am writing this, Pluto is on 29.45 Sagittarius, and the moment I read her post, the Moon was on 29.50 Taurus, making as precise an inconjunction with the Pluto as it can be. Inconjunction is the “tweaking” of life that Sabrina went through, because of her reproductive organs (the Moon is the uterus, Pluto is a cut-away tumor, their inconjunction is a surgery such as hysterectomy.) The Moon is exalted in Taurus, where it secures life, and on the last degree of Taurus, the Moon has stopped producing life. Finally, now it is on 0.12 Gemini, the sign of blogs and short writing, so here am I, blogging about a hysterectomy irrevocably (Pluto) changing somebody’s life.

“…the doctor began by conducting a diagnostic laparoscopy but followed it up immediately thereafter, having obtained additional consent only from the patient’s mother (as the patient was still unconscious), with a second and more elaborate treatment procedure (‘laparotomy’) that resulted in removal of the patient’s uterus and ovaries (hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy). [The patient, upset over this fact, refused to pay upon discharge. The doctor sued for recovery of charges and got a favorable ruling from the National Consumers' Commission. The patient appealed in the SC]. The consent form signed by the patient at the very beginning stated that the patient had been informed that the treatment to be undertaken is ‘diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy. Laparotomy may be needed’. The outcome of the case turned on the definition of ‘laparotomy’ – the word simply refers to opening the abdomen; so, in this instance, did it also imply consent to remove organs from the patient’s abdomen after it had been opened (as the doctor argued)? The court’s answer was in the negative and it emphasized that if that was indeed the case, the consent form ought to have read “”diagnostic and operative laparoscopy. Laparotomy, hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy, if needed.”

It is a real life situation that has plagued many women who wanted their gynecological problems solved, and instead, ended up without their reproductive organs to the end of their days.

It really is in the discretion of the surgeon. The patient is unconscious, and may not be able to undergo another major surgery if the surgeon woke her up just in order to ask her whether she would like to have the foci of cancer, for example, preserved…

Now let’s reverse the situation. The consent only gave permission for some surgery and not for any radical surgery at all and let’s suppose that the surgeon visually found out the masses of cancerous tissue all over the uterus and abdomen? Wouldn’t he be neglecting his duty to cure if he just dully noticed that the patient is soon going to die but what the heck, there is no written consent, so let her wake up and then tell her the situation. Would she still be suing him for not operating properly on her?

The moral of the story is — you never know what will happen. And that is why I am always advocating avoiding hysterectomy if possible, not going for it like it’s a picnic… because it is not!

– Best thing that ever happened to me! I had mine 8/1/05. I was only in the hospital for 1 1/2 days. They were surprised I was ready to go home so soon. I was so ready for it. I’d had about 3 years of bad pain and about half of that had severe bleeding…

– I have no regrets with this surgery. I had surgery at the age of 34 in 2006. My surgery was done vaginally and they removed my cervix and uterus. I still have my ovaries. I was in the hospital for 24 hours, then released to go home. After about a week, I felt so good, I overdid it a couple of times and ended up getting very sore, thankfully I did not bleed internally, but that can happen if you over do it.

And so on. But, I have long ago stopped wondering why none of these women never tried anything else, say some alternative treatment to avoid hysterectomy, than to just wait it out — and since it always is a problem of estrogen domination, the tissues just keep on growing… leading to the inevitable end, hysterectomy.

The study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, also found women who experience large gains in weight between 36 and 53 also have a greater chance of needing a hysterectomy in later life.

The journal’s editor in chief, Professor Philip Steer, said: “There are many health difficulties associated with obesity and the study shows that, particularly after the age of 36, being overweight or obese can be linked to hysterectomy in later life.

However, this is not an absolute truth and in each case there will be small differences… so what’s the point in such explorations and generalizations!? The woman may be owerweight because her pituitary gland is not working properly, which on one side will produce retention of water in the organism, and on the other side, will often produce gynecological problems. There might be something in these findings, but in the end, the healing must be individualized.

The Question was

I’ve had severe periods, crampings, clotting, and hemorrhages in my lifetime, and as I get older I cannot handle it any more and have taken Provera, and pain pills, but my problems are severer than pills could take care of, and yes, I’ve gone to gynec.. 100s of times and had tests. They claim that I am too young to have a hysterectomy, but my problems are so severe that I cannot work, have mental health, and emotional problems as a result of my damned vaginal problems. Also, am a virgin so what would be the negatives about having one. No. Never plan to have children or marry as I am 39 now. Please I am in too much pain always to have a partner or children. I suffer terrible. Help

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am a virgin.

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My answer was

First of all, I am a male so that you know in advance that I cannot have or feel the same symptoms that you do. Know also that I am not against hysterectomies as such, as in 20% of cases that surgery is valid and unavoidable. However, hysterectomies can have the following negatives as you’ve put it:

Hysterectomy side effects are those little or not so little changes in your body, moods, general behaviour and lifestyle that will surely surface if you opt for the surgery, regardless of whether you want them or not. However “small” a hysterectomy might look, it will always be a major surgery, with effects lasting to the end of the life of the patient. The uterus is not only for “making children”, it has a serious role in everyday hormonal life of a woman. It acts as a depot for hormones made throughout the night, and releases them throughout the day. Once the uterus is gone, the hormones have nowhere to go and are expelled with the first morning urine. From this hormonal disbalance, “surgical menopause” as it is called, arise all other problems in the patients body.

Hysterectomy Side Effects on the Vagina

The vagina may be shortened, scarred and/or dislocated by hysterectomy. Often, it ends up shorter than it used to be, especially if the cervix is taken out as well. (It may lead to curious situations: through my astrological practice, I once met a women with this condition, and after hysterectomy she had sexual relationship with a man with a small penis; he was hooked so much that she had to change the phone number in order to hide from him when she decided to break up the relationship!)

Hysterectomy Side Effects for the Heart

The decrease in producing of the hormones, especially estrogen, has serious consequences for the heart and blood flow. In the studies that were conducted in 1990′s, the outcome was that estrogen prevented from having more serious problems with the heart. In a more recent study, from 2003 to 2005, which was controlled in contrast to those first studies, it says that women who use estrogen may face a slightly higher risk of heart attacks and strokes over women who do not use estrogen. This is an important new development so blindly taking hormones after hysterectomy is not a wise idea.

While this may be conflicting information, one thing remains clear: if you do take hormonal replacement therapy and smoke at the same time, the risks for your heart are much bigger than usual. If and while on HRT, don’t smoke, and that’s it.

Other patients that should not use HRT because of cardiovascular problems include those with

. active or chronic liver disease,
. previous diagnosis of breast or uterine cancer,
. a family history of breast cancer,
. active gallbladder disease,
. a history of blood clots, particularly in the legs or lungs,
. severe obesity,
. diabetes,
. abnormally high blood pressure,
. a history of stroke.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is one of the most frequent consequences of hysterectomy. Estrogen production falls, but progesterone production falls even more, and this disbalance ends up as osteoporosis. The solution is to take (natural) progesterone back, usually in the form of a creme or as a homeopathic remedy.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Joints, Muscle Pain and Immobility

Bone, joint and muscle pain and immobility is not frequently connected with the hormones, but that is exactly the mechanism. The solution is to regain the hormonal balance, and not to poison the patients with corticosteroids…

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Sex

Good sex depends on the proper hormonal mix, both in the male and in the female. If there is a so-called Estrogen Dominance, a state in which there is an unproportional difference in levels of estrogen as compared to the levels of progesterone, woman will lose appetite for sex, will not be able to be aroused sexually and so on. Please see our page on sex after hysterectomy, for additional information.

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Vaginal Dryness and Painful Intercourse

Lower levels of estrogen will produce vaginal dryness, a state in which penis cannot easily enter the vagina and the intercourse becomes painful. It can be painful both for the man and for the woman, each with his and her bag of problems. After a while, both partners agree that the intercourse is not possible, until something changes.

There are various solutions to this well-known problem. One is to apply lubricants, the other — and much more fundamental at that — is to remedy the hormonal disbalance. Yet another approach is to wait it out, later things may get better (this is my advice if the vaginal dryness can be seen in the natal chart as a transit of Saturn over natal Venus).

Hysterectomy Side Effects On Pelvic Organs

After the surgery, the uterus will not be there any more, and the surrounding organs will naturally fall in that place. At that, the bladder, bowels, and other pelvic organs can become displaced, which can lead to lifelong series of problems. Not all hysterectomies are “happy ones”.

Hysterectomy Side Effects On the Urinary Tract

This is a similar problem: after the hysterectomy you may have frequent urinary tract infections, frequent calls to urinations, incontinence (the inability to hold urine for long). This can seriously disrupt the quality of life — imagine not being able to go out of the house for fear of urinating all over yourself in public!

If the nerve that regulates the bladder is cut during the surgery, urinary problems will be with you to the end of your days!

Hysterectomy Side Effects In Digestive Disorders

Chronic constipation and other digestive disorders may result after the hysterectomy. Adhesions to the pelvic floor may happen, or some nerves can be cut in this area.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Fatigue

You can expect profound fatigue after the operation, but for many women it will become a norm even after the operation is long gone. It is yet another possible consequence of surgical menopause. The key to resolving this again is finding the proper hormonal balance, either through herbal teas, homeopathic remedies or some other alternative method.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Chronic Exhaustion

Chronic exhaustion can result from many causes, but it all boils down to overworked adrenal glands. Fix the hormones, and the rest will fix itself.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and the Loss of Short-term Memory

Loss of short-term memory after hysterectomy comes from the worsening of blood circulation in the brain. In menopause, it is imperative to retain good circulation in the brain and you should consider taking either pharmeceutical means or alternative medicine treatment. One of the best is Gingko-Biloba, you will feel refreshed in the brain, simply because the brain will have more food to work with.

Hysterectomy Side Effects and Hysterical Behaviour

After hysterectomy, you can expect your character to change for the worse. The word “hystera” in Greek means womb (uterus in Latin) and it was soon noticed that the women without a womb have blunting of emotions, personality changes, despondency, irritability, anger, reclusiveness and suicidal thinking. They easily break out in anger, talk in haste, oftentimes communicating more with their unconsciousness then with explicit words. It is exactly after these women that this entire way of behaving was called “hysterical”.

Modern medicine views body as if it were a depot of broken parts and organs, impatiently waiting to mend it. So many doctors should know better, and yet they still think that the uterus is only babies to develop and then come out in pain. Once you’ve had your babies, you don’t need it — they say quite openly. Nothing could be farther from truth. Both the ovaries and the uterus function throughout the life time of a woman, and they never cease to take active part in the body. Living without them is abnormal, and unless there already is cancer developed somewhere, they should not be taken out.

Common Hysterectomy Complications

Here are some of the usual postoperative symptoms within two weeks:

Urinary tract frequency and urgency

In other words, you have much too frequent calls to urinate. Three things have to be checked for:

• urinary tract infection, or
• bladder spasms due to catheter irritation, or
• small pelvic collections of blood near the bladder.

Incisional problems

• Discharge or weeping of the incision in the first week or two,
• itching or burning of the incision at 3-6 weeks,
• pain that is localized to one side of the incision or another,
• swelling underneath or to the side of the incision but different than the rest of the incision,
• abdominal wall laxness, pot belly, bloated appearance.

Gastrointestinal problems

• Increased “gassiness” immediately after surgery (treatable with simethicone tablets or liquid),
• constipation treatable with stool softeners, flax seed,
• loose stools (especially if antibiotics were given).

Vaginal problems
• Bloody or odorous discharge for the first 1-4 weeks,
• odor without much discharge (may require topical vaginal antibiotic cream if persists beyond a week),
• vulvar burning or itching (usually just due to dryness and not a yeast infection).

Mood changes

• Reversion to moods previously ignored due to furiosu tempo of every day life,
• fatigue,
• decreased libido,
• increased feelings of stress and anxiety,
• increased depressive symptoms

Pain
• Pain and swelling or redness at the site of the intravenous needles;
• pelvic cramps and catches somewhat sporadic in occurrence or related to increased physical activity.

General problems

• Generalized allergic rash or itching to medications such as antibiotics or pain medicines.

There can also be so-called severe hysterectomy complications, which are not really likely, but do happen from time to time.