Have you scheduled a hysterectomy because of an ubearable pain in your uterus? If you have an IUD, Intrauterine Device, you might want to think twice over the matter.

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?

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Can you have cancer of ovaries if you do not have ovaries? Perhaps, your ovaries were taken out during a hysterectomy and you think you are safe? Then read this post:

Signs of Ovarian Cancer (Even in the Absence of Ovaries)

The authour advocates that you should perform a yearly CA-125 ovarian cancer test, which should be even paid by your insurance (if you live in the USA, that is).

Maybe you should. Or you can ask a medical astrologer to see whether the period for cancer is really due.

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Uterine artery embolization is a relatively non-invasive procedure to stop the blood supply to the existing uterine fibroids in order to eliminate them. It involves a catheter through the artery and lasts for about an hour, but after the procedure, the uterus is intact. The fibroids do not have blood to feed them, so they disappear. But is it really a better solution than the hysterectomy, given that the symptomatic uterine fibroids may return within a year or two, and that with hysterectomy they cannot return because the uterus isn’t there any more?

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.

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Is hysterectomy the end of the world?

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.

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In astrology, the 8th house is about karma, sex and death. In real life, the end of the sexual intercourse is sometimes called “the little death”, as if something is gone, is going away from you and with it, as if you were somehow transformed. The cumulative role of reproductive organs is to inhale and exhale, to receive in and to let out, and what happens when you have hysterectomy — the surgical removal of the uterus — is that you cannot give any more, at least, not as a mother. But what if you already had your children, will it help you to bear easier the thought of forthcoming hysterectomy? Or, the thought of any other life-treathening surgery!?

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.

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Medline has an animated video about hysterectomy. If you have never dealt before with the idea of hysterectomy, invest 20-odd minutes to see this presentation. It will also warn you about the risks of hysterectomy. Some parts of the presentation, I simply disagree with, for instance, the statement that after hysterectomy, sex life remains the same! Ha!

You can see the presentation here.

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Here is an excellent post called How do you reassure a worried patient with fibroids?It covers all the usual options that medical science can offer, besides hysterectomy and is written by a practicing GP, Dr. Tanvir Jamil.

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.

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There is a great discomfort about request to have a hysterectomy on a disabled child. A British mother desires her severely disabled 15 year old daughter to have a hysterectomy in order to avoid the discomfort of periods. Naturally, many are opposed to this idea, read the news here. Here is the opposite point of view — the girl’s uterus is healthy, so maybe periods won’t be a distress after all!?

Here is yet another voice of doubt.

Do you need that hysterectomy!? is a fair appraisal of the alternatives that exist for the hysterectomy today.

If women new more about their anatomy and physiology, they would make informed decisions about hysterectomy, the HERS foundation believes. They are organizing their 26th conference soon:

ERS TWENTY-SIXTH HYSTERECTOMY CONFERENCE
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 8:30am-6:00pm
The Westin Pasadena, Plaza Room
191 North Los Robles
Pasadena, CA 91101
Open to the public

For more info, click here to go the their blog.

Hysterectomy can really have disastrous consequences upon your sex life. Furthermore, it can ruin long term marriages, read the awakening testimonials here.

If you are in the USA, this short, short list of hysterectomy resources by Washington Post might come handy to you.

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A recent post, Formula May Predict Hysterectomy Need-Women With Multiple Uterine Symptoms At Higher Risk, tells us that there are three predictors that lead to hysterectomy:

– Pelvic pain and heavy bleeding;

– Not responding to earlier treatments; and

– Previous use of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH agonists) such as Lupron.

If all three predictors are present, there is a 95% possibility of having a hysterectomy in the end, the researcher said. And conversely, if hysterectomy was done because of the presence of these three predictors, the patients were pleased with the outcome.

This sheds a new light on hysterectomy decisions. One way to interpret this finding is to refuse to have a hysterectomy done if not all of these conditions are present. Doctors/tag-tec] should serve hysterectomy as an option only if these three conditions are present, and otherwise they shouldn’t. Patients should, on their own behalf, search for [tag-tec]alternative treatments in order to avoid the second condition, while doctors should probably stop prescribing Lupron so easily, since it can lead to hysterectomy later on.

All in all, very interesting.

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To most women, menstrual periods are just a fact of life. But to many women, heavy menstrual bleeding ruins lifestyle, forces to stay at home, don’t even go to work, bring pain, gloominess and depression. Traditional solution for this was hysterectomy, but the minimally invasive alternatives to hysterectomy are becoming more popular in the last 5-7 years, due to appearance of a large number of various technological solutions. Endometrial ablation is destroying the inner lining of the uterus, with the goal of reducing the menstrual flow so that life becomes normal again.

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!

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