Uterine fibroid is a tumor of muscles in the uterus. Another name for them is myoma, which is short for the more technical name — leiomyoma. Women can endure an entire pregnancy or two with uterine fibroids present, but there are cases in which they produce heavy menstrual bleeding, pain and various others types of discomfort.

If you naively add the notion of “surgery” to the notion of “uterine fibroids”, you end up thinking that the standard surgical way of dealing with the fibroids would consist of cutting them out and leaving the womb in place (the technical term for such an operation is myomectomy). However, myomectomy is more complicated for the surgeon to perform than hysterectomy, so when a surgeon talks about surgery for uterine fibroids, he or she mainly thinks and/or proposes straight hysterectomy. Trusting doctors, patients perform their own leap of faith and head straight to hysterectomy, often unaware of many other alternatives, be them surgical or alternative in nature.

Energy Healing Methods To Avoid Hysterectomy

Before hysterectomy, try everything else there is: . homeopathy,

== herbal remedies and treatments,

== Reiki and similar energies,

== Su Jok etc.

Fibroid treatments can also be taken as a combination, especially if you want to include “softer” energy healing methods such as Reiki, flower remedies, and EFT. It should be noted, though, that homeopathy and Su Jok can cure fibroids all on their own, so if you want to try a Do It Yourself approach, while waiting out for the official medicines to work, you can. To make things even more interesting, many of the classical fibroid treatments can be replicated on an energy level, so it certainly pays to learn about all these possibilities. Herbal remedies can help you too, but it seems that the most hope comes from using special combinations of enzymes, that are geared to removing the fibroids without surgery.

To decide which method would be the best in the given period, have a look at astrohomeopathy case of uterine fibroids page.

Surgical Fibroid Treatments

Myomectomy

Myomectomy is taking only the fibroids out, while preserving the uterus. The goal is to leave the possibility of getting pregnant some time later. Unfortunately for millions of women, myomectomy is a much more complicated operation as compared to hysterectomy, so surgeons that get paid by operation, tend to suggest hysterectomy as a shorther procedure for them. The result is dozens and hundreds of thousands of unneeded hysterectomis, especially in the USA, UK and the rest of the so-called Western World.

Endometrial ablation

When there is too much bleeding and it does not respond to any other medical approach, destroying the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus that actually bleeds, is a good idea. The womb remains almost intact, the procedure is not long or bothersome (as compared to a full hysterectomy, of course), but the possibility of getting pregnant is destroyed forever.

Uterine artery embolization

For your convenience we have copied introductory paragraphs from this site:

 Uterine artery embolization is a minimally invasive treatment for uterine fibroids, noncancerous growths in the uterus. In uterine artery embolization — also referred to as uterine fibroid embolization — a doctor uses a slender, flexible tube (catheter) to inject small particles into the uterine arteries, which supply blood to your fibroids and uterus. The goal is to block tiny vessels that lead to your fibroids, starve the fibroids and cause them to die.

Interventional radiologists usually perform uterine artery embolization. This type of doctor uses imaging techniques to guide procedures that would be impossible with conventional surgery. Some specialists in obstetrics and gynecology also have training in uterine artery embolization.

Uterine balloon therapy

The following was taken from here:

Menorrhagia, or excessive menstrual bleeding, affects 22 percent of healthy women. According to OCH Regional Medical Center Staff Obstetrician/Gynecologist Jan Furniss, MD, this common problem is a frequent cause of iron-deficiency and is often treated with drug therapy, dilation and curettage (D and C), or hysterectomy in severe cases.

However, a new procedure, uterine balloon therapy (UTB), was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treating certain patients with menorrhagia.

“UBT, a minimally invasive treatment that typically takes less than a half-hour, provides a cure for excessive bleeding in 85 percent of women who elect to have this procedure,” Dr. Furniss said, adding that there is no surgical incision, and patients are discharged the same day, with most able to resume normal activities within a couple of days. “In most cases, menstrual bleeding will be reduced to light or moderate flow; some women may have only spotting while a few may have no bleeding at all.”

She said UBT is now the treatment of choice for certain patients who have failed to find relief with drug therapy and wish for hysterectomy to be a last resort. According to Dr. Furniss, drug therapy, such as low-dose birth control pills or other hormones, can be effective in decreasing bleeding without the need for surgery. She noted that repeated, long-term dosing is sometimes required, as symptoms may return once the treatment is discontinued.

Adhesiolysis

This is the source for the following introduction to adhesiolysis:

Peritoneal adhesion is a common cause of bowel obstruction, pelvic pain and infertility. Proper technique of adhesiolysis is important and operating surgeons should have clear concept of mechanism of adhesion formation.

Normal fibrinolytic activity prevents fibrinous attachments for 72 to 96 hours after surgery and mesothelial repair occurs within 5 days of trauma. Within these 5 days a single cell layer of new peritoneum covers the injured raw area, replacing fibrinous exudates. However, if fibrinous activity of the peritoneum is suppressed, fibroblast will migrate, proliferate and form fibrous adhesion. Collagen is deposited and neovasular formation starts.

The most important factors which suppress fibrinolytic activity and promote adhesion formation are:

• Port wound just above the target of dissection
• Tissue Ischemia
• Drying of serosal surfaces
• Excessive suturing Omental Patches
• Traction of peritoneum
• Blood clots, stones or dead tissue retained inside
• Prolonged operation
• Visceral injury
• Infection
• Delayed postoperative mobilization of patient
• Postoperative pain due to inadequate analgesia.
• Hemodynamic instability
• Uncorrected coagulopathy
• Severe cardiopulmonary disease
• Abdominal wall infection
• Multiple previous upper abdominal procedures
• Late pregnancy

Contraindications

·        Hemodynamic instability

·        Uncorrected coagulopathy

·        Severe cardiopulmonary disease

·        Abdominal wall infection

·        Multiple previous upper abdominal procedures

·        Late pregnancy

Hormonal Pharmacological Fibroid Treatments

This is the source for the following information on hormonal fibroid treatments:

• Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (Gnrh) Agonists And Antagonists
GnRH agonists or antagonists are typically given before surgery to make fibroids smaller and more controllable during surgery and to reduce blood loss. Therapy using GnRH agonists and antagonist drugs result in a decrease in estrogen and progesterone levels leading to a decrease in the size of the fibroid.
There is also cessation of menstruation, allowing women with anemia due to uterine bleeding to increase their iron stores. The side effects of using these medications are similar to the symptoms experienced as a result of hormonal changes during and after menopause. These include hot flashes, vaginal dryness, mood swings, changes in metabolism and infertility.
GnRH treatments are not to be used during pregnancy due to potential pregnancy complications or in the long term since it can significantly decrease bone density leading to osteoporosis. Currently, GnRH agonists are used more frequently than GnRH antagonists.
GnRH agonist drugs include: Lupron, Synarel, Zoladex, among others. Recent researches, however, suggest that GnRH antagonists work more quickly and the side effects less severe than those of GnRH agonists.

• Progestins
Progestins can partially suppress estrogen stimulation of uterine fibroid growth. It also reduces bleeding and provides contraception. Side effects of progestins may include weight gain ,depression, and irregular bleeding. For some women, however, fibroids tend to grow while on progestin therapy.
Examples of progestins are: medroxyprogesterone acetate, depomedroxyprogesterone acetate, and norethindrone.

• Progestin-releasing intrauterine device (IUD)
A progestin-releasing IUD can only provide relief for the symptoms associated with fibroids such as heavy bleeding and pain but it cannot shrink fibroids or make them disappear.

• Antiprogestins
Based on recent studies, it has been found that drugs that oppose the other major female hormone, progesterone, seem to be effective in treating uterine fibroids as well.

The most popular anti-progestin drug Mifepristone, also known as RU 486, has showed in small studies that it induces uterine shrinkage and stops menstrual periods in women with fibroids. However, this drug is not readily available and studies regarding its effectiveness are still in the early stages.

• Androgens
The ovaries and adrenal glands produce androgens, also called as male hormones. Androgens can also help to relieve fibroid symptoms.

Currently, there are synthetic drugs similar to testosterone called Danazol and Gestrinone that may effectively stop menstruation, cure anemia, shrink fibroid tumors and reduce fibroid size.

Side effects in taking this drug may include weight gain, dysphoria (feeling depressed, anxious or uneasy), acne, headaches, unwanted hair growth and a deeper voice.

• Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (Serms)
SERMs may help reduce fibroid growth. Based on animal studies, it acts as an anti-estrogen on uterine smooth muscle and may be capable of shrinking fibroids even though estrogen is still present. However, its efficiency on humans compared to other drugs is still unclear. Example of a SERM drug is Raloxifene.

• Luteinizing Hormone Releasing Factor
Lupron® and other luteinizing hormone releasing factor medications are frequently used to decrease the size of uterine fibroids by about 50% over 3 months of use.
However, Lupron®, is very expensive and does not seem suitable for long term treatment of fibroids. It reduces the size of fibroids and decreases blood flow to the fibroids prior to surgery.

• Oral Contraceptives
Oral contraceptives also alter the natural hormone levels in the body, thus, slowing or stopping fibroid growth. They work by altering the estrogen and progesterone levels in the body which results in a low enough estrogen level to control fibroid growth.
The side effects of oral contraceptives are similar to those associated with GnRH agonists and antagonists, but less severe. One advantage of oral contraceptives to GnRH therapies is that they can be used for a long period of time without endangering fertility or causing severe enough side effects to require discontinuation of therapy.

– to get rid of several large fibroids and

– to finally conceive, since she is now happily married.

She follows a detailed plan, for almost a year and does have success. Here are the results in her own words

The two my gyn is most concerned about are the ones that are impinging into the cavity
Of those, one is the posterior which shrunk from 4.8 in May (5.0 in December) to 3.2 — so that’s 33% shrinkage since May, and 36% shrinkage since December. This is helpful since it makes more room in the cavity
The other one impinging into the cavity is the submucosal, which grew slightly from 2.5 to 2.7 (8%)

Then the other three are ones that are outside the uterus or inside the muscle:
A subserosal that was unchanged from May at 5.2 (was 5.7 in December)
A second subserosal that shrank from 3.1 in May to 2.8 (9.7% decrease)
A “mid” one that increased from 2.5 in May to 3.5 (40%)

(By the way, the reason I only have stats on two of them for December is because at that time my uterus was so distorted that my gyn didn’t bother trying to measure all of them. Only in May when things were looking better did she start to attempt to map and measure beyond the two biggest ones.)

How is it that the shrinkage/growth for each fibroid is so different? My gyn had two explanations. First, the ultrasounds are rather murky and it’s difficult to measure easily or accurately and sometimes when they are close it’s hard to distinguish them from each other to tell where one starts and one ends. Second, she said “each one can have a different DNA composition so they can respond to different things.” For example, some fibroids might be more or less hormone responsive than others, and some might respond to certain treatments while others don’t. Sounds like that’s what is going on here….

The results are very good, so good in fact that as of lately, she was okayed to TTC, which means the state of the uterus is now almost normal, and that a pregnancy is finally achievable (in theory, of course). To really get pregnant, of course, many other things need be syncronized, and she is trying hard, eating the right foods, reading about enzymes and so on, so let us all wish her luck in TTC!

NB For predictions on getting pregnant, you may want to have a look at the series of my astrological videos called Dusko Savic on Pregnancy In the Natal Chart

If you want to have children but are already diagnosed with fibroids, a natural question occurs: how to eliminate uterine fibroids before the pregnancy!? Pregnancy with fibroids will in some cases end up happily, but it is risky and prone to many problems, such as bleeding or calcified fibroids. Large uterine fibroids will make it downright impossible to get pregnant because the fertilized egg will not be able to implant itself into the lining of the uterus and thus officialy start the pregnancy.

If the fibroid is not large, the egg may implant itself successfuly and then it is a matter of chance whether the pregnancy will be full term or not, depending on the interplay of the growing foetus and the fibroid, one or more of them. Apart from the “mechanical” problems the deeper problem may be the hormonal one, because there is a reason the fibroid started to grow. Most often it is too much of estrogen that is being produced together with the excessive reactivity of estrogen receptors inside the uterus. If hormones are the problem, the pregnancy will end abruptly sooner or later, because if there is more estrogen as compared to progesterone, the lining of the uterus will grow and will fall off.

It may happen anywhere and anytime, while the woman is sleeping, or is doing ordinary house chores, or when going out to do the groceries… At least 3000 people have personally consulted with me in my capacity as a professional astrologer so far, but I still vividly remember a marital couple that came to me see whether they could they have more pregnancies and, finally, children. On Monday, they went to the gynecologist (she was in the end of the third month of the pregnancy), had everything checked out and everything was OK. Two days later, she woke up in a bed full of blood — the pregnancy was no more, without any sign of warning.

Treatment for Uterine Fibroids

The purpose of this post is to show alternative medicine methods to eliminate uterine fibroids before pregnancy, but there are other kinds of treatments for uterine fibroids. One that you will encounter often in Western medicine is fibroids treatment with Lupron (“Lupron from hell” as they call it), but is just a road to hysterectomy — guaranteed.

It is possible to eliminate fibroids through myomectomy, but that will have its own set of problems:

Myomectomy

Laparoscopic myomectomy

Abdominal myomectomy

Hysteroscopic myomectomy

Alternative Medicine Methods to Eliminate Fibroids On This Site

To dissolve fibroids using a herbal mixture

http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/herbal-remedies-for-uterine-fibroids.html

Here is how to use homeopathy to eliminate fibroids

http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/homeopathic-treatment-for-uterine-fibroids.html

http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/homeopathy/can-palladium-cure-your-uterine-fibroids/

Here is how to use Vitalzym to eliminate fibroids

http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/vitalzym.html

What To Do If You Have Recently Lost Your Baby and There Were Fibroids in the Uterus

Here is what you should take now, at least four times a day in order to overcome the emotional problems left after you lost your baby

http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/rescue-remedy.html

There also is a more specific combination for this case and that is:

Star of Betlehem, Gorse, Walnut, Pine, Willow, Sweet Chestnut, Cherry Plum

You should take the above combination for at least two or three months in a row, for at least four times a day.

After that, while trying to conceive again, the following combination of Bach flower remedies would come handy:

Impatiens, Star of Betlehem, Gentian, Gorse, Vervain, White Chestnut

All these methods to eliminate uterine fibroids before pregnancy could be improved in personal contact with a dedicated practitioner, be it a professional herbalist, homeopath, or a Bach flower remedy practitioner. From me, through a medical astrology reading, you can gain glimpse of how the general energy trends will apply to your particular case. For example, as a rule of thumb, flower remedies are prescribed for three months in a row and the general wisdom says to stop. But if Uranus, the planet of speed and impatiency, makes hard aspects to your Sun or Moon for the entire next year, then you should be taking Impatience for that entire year instead of only three months.

If you are interested in why medical astrology works, you can read more about spiritual dimensions of medical astrology here. On that page you will also find when the medical astrology reading is not the best or the final answer to the client’s or patient’s needs and what to do then.

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.

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.

Here is a case in point, from a well known homeopathic site hpathy.com. She was a well-known actress, who was in a relationship with a much older another actor. They could not have children because of the social setting, so she had to supress that urge. She always wanted to be flattered, and somehow felt herself bigger than the rest of the people. Homeopathic remedy Palladium does very well when praised, but feels awful when scorned at. Unlike Platina, Palladium type will never fight in the open, they feel much too vulnerable for that. Thus, they project their wishes inwards.

Palladium is one of the main remedies when huge tumor develops in the sexual organs, especially in females. Is very useful for tumors of ovaries, especially of the right ovary.

Palladium patient does have sex, their sexual appetite is, in fact, quite large. They will often mix obscenities and vulgarities with sexual intercourse and even children of the Palladium type are quick to speak foul language.

Palladium is in an internal conflict, they want to be praised but their pride does not allow them to ask for signs of affection. That confused emotional state can produce convulsive movements, first of the face and then of the entire body.

Women in this state can feel as if their inside is prolapsing, and Palladium can sometimes be used to stop the prolapse of the uterus.

In the case in question, Dr. Jawahar Shah of Mumbai prescribed Palladium 200C, and it was repeated four times during the next year. After a year, ultra sonography showed no fibroids at all, the cure was complete.

The Moral of This Case?

If a doctor has told you one of these days how you must have a hysterectomy and fast, you are not a candidate for these subtle but efficient methods of healing. If a surgery is scheduled for the next month, how will you ever know was Palladium or any other homeopathic remedy the right cure for you?

The following question was posted on Yahoo Answers, on 6th of December 2007:

My mother had uterine fibroid tumors, and I think I may have them, too. I am bleeding extremely heavily, enough to soak a tampon within half an hour. I have made a doctor’s appointment, but they cannot see for a month.

Are there natural ways to reduce this bleeding? HELP!

Here is my answer, which, by the way, was in no way the only one.

There are other ways to deal with fibrods, some of them are described on this very site, such as:

Homeopathic Treatment For Uterine Fibroids

Herbal Remedies For Uterine Fibroids etc.

For a comprehensive line-up of endometrial ablation methods please have a look at our page called Can Endometrial Ablation Replace Hysterectomy in Cases of Heavy Menorrhagia? The video that we have present here is at

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=574778

It is 46 minutes long and shows hydrothermal endometrial ablation performed as a live webcast, on September 27th 2007. Enjoy!

My contribution to that thread was this:

Hi

Having a hysterectomy is never a picnic. The only way of telling what will happen next is medical astrology, but there are very few people in the world that practice it. For every woman that had her hysterectomy done well, there is a legion of women who curse themselves for being so stupid to give their consent for it, without realizing what they actually do.

Uterus is a vital part of woman’s body, it stores sex hormones created by the ovaries during the night and releases them during the day. If there is no uterus, the hormones get expelled with the first morning urination and from there so many problems follow that it would require an entire site to explain the consequences.

Fibroids are tumors, and tumors are large tissues — ask yourself, what in my life is food for these tumors to grow!? Uterus is an organ for emotional responses, it is your primary means of reacting to the world as a woman. In other words, it is the emotions that give food to the tumors and cancers, resolve emotions first, they are the origin of the illness, and simultaneously try to heal the body.

If you want to heal your fibroids and uterus, you may be interested to know that there are several alternative methods of healing the uterus without surgery: homeopathy, Su Jok, Reiki, herbal remedies, seed therapy, a combination of these etc. Maybe the simplest would be to try the enzymes which resolve the myoma, Google them and you’ll find them.

All the best, Dusko Savic

Question: I have had problems with an irregular cycle. I also have fibroids. My doctor has recommended a hysterectomy, but I am uncomfortable with such radical surgery. Do I have other options? I am 45 and otherwise in good health.

which is answered by Dr. Richard T. Bosshardt for Orlando Sentinel, under the title of
Weigh your options before you undergo hysterectomy. Here is my comment to the article:

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Hi

A nice article written from the doctor’s point of view. I’d also like to remind that there are other methods from alternative medicine that can help with fibroids and irregular bleeding.

With the advent of the Internet, women to which hysterectomy was suggested can ask other women through specialized forums and groups, and there are dozens of sites devoted to hysterectomy and its consequences. Here are suggestions for some of these:

www.youtube.com, search for hysterectomy, laparoscopy, myoma, myomectomy etc.
www.nohysterectomy.com, written by a leading gynecologist in the USA
www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com — minimally invasive procedures such as endometrial ablation instead of hysterectomy, then homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, herbal remedies, Su Jok, Reiki, enzymes… are the methods of energy healing that can all help with the fibroids. The site also contains a collection of annotated videos from youTybe and Google Video.
www.hystersisters.com — a site for hysterectomy recovery, very large, contains a ton of info, but geared to those that have already had their hysterectomy, preferably a “happy” one.

There are other links of course, but these can be a useful start. You have the right to know what will happen to your body after such a major surgery so do your homework well.

All the best, Dusko

Low Libido in Women — What To Do About It?

So many women have low libido, a low drive to have sex with their partners. Almost half of the women actually fall into this category and some of the actually want to do something about it. This story, Pills Not Always the Cure for Women Suffering Low Libido, tells us about a case in which testosterone pills actually helped a woman regain her libido, and at the same time, it also states that the low male hormones are far from the only cure.

A typical situation in which sex drive is diminished is after the hysterectomy, you can read an article testosterone for women on this site about it.

Although, as as astrologer, I must add that the quality of your sex drive depends both on your Mars and Venus in the natal chart, as well as on the interplay of these two planets with your partner’s Mars and Venus. (Hint, hint: find a partner with any kind of crossed aspect with your Mars and Venus and you won’t even need artificial hormones!)

Treatments For Menorrhagia Evaluated, UK

Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) is a common problem in women. About 5% of women asks their GP about that such bleeding. In previous decades, hysterectomy was the only way to resolve it, but in the meantime, new surgical techniques evolved. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya of the University of Aberdeen will lead a team of researchers to review the existing evidence about hysterectomy, endometrial ablative techniques (microwave endometrial ablation and thermal balloon ablation), and the Mirena coil. The goal of the study is to establish long term effectiveness of all these methods, and then to create a set of guidelines for doctors to follow in clinical decision making. The estimated publishing time is mid 2010.

Here are the technical details of the proposed study.

New Hysterectomy Offers Faster Recovery

A sugar-coated story of how a woman had increasingly heavy periods and anemia, how her doctor persuaded her to take the uterus out and how she walked home the next day after the laparoscopic, or minimally-invasive, hysterectomy.

This story reads like an open advertisement for hysterectomy. Laparascopy is better than laparotomy, and yes, you do walk away from the hospital much faster as compared to the usual gynecological surgery. What the story does not tell is that from now on that woman will live without her main sex organ, and that can hurt in more ways that one.

Incidentally, in this hysterectomy news here is an animated video of laparoscopic hysterectomy. If you are interested in video presentations concerning hysterectomy, you can use a rich collection of annotated hysterectomy videos from the very site that you are reading now, How To Avoid Hysterectomy.com.

You can learn more about laparoscopy in hysterectomy, here.

Peggy Anderson Blog: September is
National Gynecological Awareness Month

I’ll just quote Peggy Anderson:

I know that I didn’t consider myself at risk. I was at 23 years of age, had cervical cancer, and had a hystertomy. At 33 years of age I had vaginal cancer due to bad cells left over from my surgery from that caused some major problems for me. Hemorrhaging problems that brought me to emergency wards, even though I had a hysterectomy. I had a procedure called cryosurgery or freezing of the cells. (Since I will turn 60 this next year, I don’t get embarrassed about “the little things in life.” Health is important in our society!)

I always say, “Every day is a gift.” This is especially so for many cancer patients, who cherish the rising of the sun, and the smell of a flower, a new taste, a new day, and a new event. We see the beauty in every day and every tomorrow.

Read her blog post about the conditions that can lead to various forms of gynecological cancers.

I’d like to do her natal chart and see why she had all these medical problems and also what enabled her to survive them all for decades.

Sex After Hysterectomy

Here is an ongoing discussion on the effects hysterectomy has on sex. I added a comment and here is what I have said (I’ll record it here, in case they don’t allow my comment on their blog):

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Hi to all here

Although my site is active for more than two years by now, I have only today stumbled upon this blog. The comments here show how painful everything about hysterectomy seems to be and what I find most disturbing is this sheep mentality that so many women succumb to. Oh, the doctor said it would be OK, so it must be OK, right? The thought that some real healing should be tried before the surgery is so alien to the Western World that the results really are sickening.

Every illness has its cause. Removing the cause will lead to true healing, but what do women do instead!? They go to a doctor and hope that they will be able to purchase a solution. Hysterectomy is so widespread in the USA because there is an implicit belief that doctors hold the keys to everything and vise versa, if they don’t know what to do, than all the means are exhausted. This enervates me because I know that there are at least 5, 6 or 7 ways to heal uterine fibroids, heavy menstrual bleeding, cancer and so on. In 20% of cases, hysterectomy will be the only way to proceed, but what about those 80% that can really avoid hysterectomy if only they knew it were possible.

Somebody in these comments said it was not possible to predict the outcome of a hysterectomy. Well, it is possible to predict it through the methods of medical astrology. On my site I list many such cases, and I openly give the recipes that helped several women stop their menstrual bleeding, avoid hystrectomy etc. And here we are not talking about $5000 cost of surgery, we are talking about cheap natural remedies such as herbal remedies, homeopathic remedies, enzymes and the like, that can all be gathered for a few bucks from Amazon.

The point is this: if you want to get healed, you will be — but somebody first has to tell you that you can be healed. Surgery is cutting out, not healing. The Moon rules both the uterus and the breasts, and when they take away the uterus, the energy goes to the breasts… which is why so many women on HRT after hysterectomy develop cancer of the breasts.

For the ladies here that experienced sex drive through the roof after hysterectomy, that kind of behavior is astrologically described as an aspect of Mars and Uranus. It may well be possible that such an aspect was made during the surgery, and that it may affect you harder that it normally would. Strong sexual drives may also come as a result of too much testosterone, so everybody with this type of behavior should control their hormonal mix from time to time.

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You can read about hysterectomy side effects from this very site. Also, here is what I wrote about sex after hysterectomy.

That’s it for this week, then!

If this were an episode from some TV soap opera, you would just laugh and try for another channel. For this woman in Lincoln, Nebraska, the above scenario is reality. This baby will not be born and this woman will also never get pregnant again, that’s for sure! Now she sues the doctors at Planned Parenthood clinic for $38,000, to compensate for pain, fright, medical costs and so on (you can read the entire story here, at JournalStar.com archives.)

Let have a look at the horary chart of this event, which will show what actually happened:

Uranus opp Sun — sudden decisions,

Uranus sq Mars and Sun sq Mars — totally unpredictable events,

Moon con Mars — uterus will be operated, uterus in blood,

Jupiter opp Mars — enormous blood flow, with the Moon so close — in the uterus,

Venus, Saturn, Sun, Mercury in the seventh house — she wants to sue in order to punish them (Saturn), revenge

Pluto sq Mercury which rules the fifth house of pregnancies — there will be no more pregnancies, it is final (Pluto in square).

There you have it. An unusual case, quite explained through its chart.

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. heavy metrorrhagia (profuse bleeding),

. heavy anaemia, and a

. fibroid 2×4 cm on the rear wall of the uterus.

She was released from the hospital without any intervention or therapy for the acutely bleeding uterine fibroids! In this situation, she remembered homeopathy, due to Mercury in Pisces and Venus in Aries in the solar chart. (The signs of Pisces and Aries are very imporant for homeopathy, because its founder, Samuel Hanneman, had three planets in Pisces and another three planets in Aries; Kent also had six planets in these signs.) So she was prescribed a routine mixture of homeopathic remedies for uterine fibroids. All the problems, including the fibroid itself, disappeared within the first month of treatment, without any surgery.

She was released from the hospital without any intervention or therapy for the acutely bleeding uterine fibroids! In this situation, she remembered homeopathy, due to Mercury in Pisces and Venus in Aries in the solar chart. (The signs of Pisces and Aries are very imporant for homeopathy, because its founder, Samuel Hanneman, had three planets in Pisces and another three planets in Aries; Kent also had six planets in these signs.) So she was prescribed a routine mixture of homeopathic remedies for uterine fibroids. All the problems, including the fibroid itself, disappeared within the first month of treatment, without any surgery.

The Natal Chart

This woman is born on 6th of February 1955, 8:15am, 44:48N, 20:30E.

Here are the important facts from the chart: The Sun is on 15 Aquarius, the Moon on 6 Leo, and the Ascendant is 20 Pisces.

Mars sextile the Sun together with Jupiter, Uranus and the Moon in the fifth house, made her spend her youth playing tennis.

There is a striking great watery trine, the Ascendent on 20 Pisces, Saturn in the VIII house on 20 Scorpio, then Jupiter on 22 and Uranus on 24 Cancer.

Saturn in Scorpio in the VIII house will give diseases of reproductive organs throughout life. Pluto rules the VIII house and is in the VI house, opposite to retrograde Mercury on 29 Aquarius, where Mercury is a co-ruler or second ruler of the VI house.

Mercury and the Sun are in the XII house… all the three houses of diseases are connected through aspects of the planets, so in one point in life this has to materialize as an illness.

Additionaly, Saturn squares Pluto (his ruler) and is inconjunct Mars (another ruler of Saturn, through Scorpio). Fortunately, Saturn is a part of the aforementioned great watery trine, which will facilitate easy regeneration from the diseases of the VIII house in Scorpio.

Hard aspects of Saturn, in Scorpio and in the VIII house, are a predisposition for a bladder stone.

Saturn square the Sun is an operation as well as a chronic rheumatism.

The Moon in the V house in hard aspects and on a malefic fixes star is a precondition for premature abortions of a pregnancy.

A full V house with hard aspects of Saturn and Uranus to the rulers of the VI and VIII houses, guarantees the presence of venereal diseases or some other disorders of the genital system.

The Moon is on the fixed star North Aselus, which can lead to blindness or other problems with sight, when the transits come.

The Solar Return Chart and Transits for 2001

Let’s have a look at the solar return chart for 2001.

The Ascendant is on 23 Gemini, the VI house is from 10 Scorpio to 23 Sagittarius, with both of its rulers in it — Mars on 25 Scorpio and Pluto na 14 Sagittarius. Mars is in exact opposition to Saturn on 24 Taurus, the Sun is on 16 Aquarius and Uranus is on 20 Aquarius. From there, Uranus precisely squares the natal Saturn on 20 Scorpio. This chart contains similar energies, the Sun and Uranus are the focal points of a fixed T-square, with Saturn opposed to Mars as a base. This year, some illness will strike for sure, but it will not be fatal.

The VIII house is empty, while Pluto from the VI house is in exact sextile to Uranus and Sun, serving as an energy outlet for that T-square.

Mars in Scorpio in the VI house is an acute illness of the genitals (bleeding and inflammation), Saturn in the XII house is going to a hospital, Jupiter conjunct Saturn is a tumor and we only need see which part of the body to focus on.

The Moon on 6 Leo is in exact inconjunction with Neptune on 6 Aquarius, and we note that the 6th degree is similar to the VI house and the VI sign, therefore, the illness will be visible on part of the body ruled by the Moon exactly — the uterus itself.

Venus square Mars gives congestion — surplus blood being stored in the walls of the uterus.

Progression for 2001

The progression for year 2001 is similar to the solar return chart as the Ascendent is on 4 Gemini.

The VI house is in Libra and Scorpio, the VIII house is empty, and in the XII house Mars is on 18 Taurus opposed to Saturn from the VI, on 20 Scorpio. In the solar chart we see an identical opposition between those houses, except that Saturn is in Taurus and Mars is in Scorpio! The other important element is opposition of Venus to Pluto, which is making “a state within a state”, i.e. tumors and growths. Venus on 22 Aquarius and Pluton on 24 Leo are not only in opposition but are a part of grand cross with Mars and Saturn. It is a trend shaping for some ten or so years and has to materialize as a chronic (Saturn), long (fixed signs) illness of genital organs (Scorpio active, as well as its rulers), tumor (Venus opposed to Pluto), which must be resolved through amputation (Mars square Pluto) of the diseased tissues. The only difference is that here the uterine fibroids were amputated in a non-surgical manner.

Astrohomeopathical Diagnosis and Cures

In the natal chart, the following remedies are prominent: Arsenicum Album, Nux Vomica, Tubercullinum, Ignatia, Thuja, Strammonium, Naja Tripudians, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, and Calcarea Carbonica.

In progression, the remedies are:

Natrium Muriaticum, Latrodectus Mactans, Stramonium, Thuja, Platinum Metallicum, Syphillinum, Kalmia Latifolia, Lachesis.

In solar return chart, the remedies are:

Nux Vomica, Natrium Muriaticum, Aurum Metallicum, Tubercullinum, Strammonium, Silicea, Ferrum Phosphoricum, Syphillinum, Conium, Kalmia Latifolia, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Lachesis.

All this lead to an efficient healing with a mixture of homeopathic remedies, please see the page on homeopathic treatment for uterine fibroids.

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.

Click here to read the entire article on hysteroscopic myomectomy.

You can see laparoscopic myomectomy videos here.

Just as with any other type of myomectomy, the goal of laparoscopy is to stop heavy bleeding and pressure on the internal organs from the (possibly large) fibroids. Theoretically, it is possible to get rid of any kind of uterine fibroids with laparoscopic myomectomy, but the fact is it works best if there were one or two large fibroids. With other types of myoma present, laparoscopy may not be ideal solution, since there will be a defect in the uterus on the place occupied by the fibroid that was taken out, and that defect must be repaired in order to prevent complications.

Read on to see for whom laparoscopic myomectomy is for.