prostap hrt and hysterectomy

[Jessdoss]

Hi I’m looking for some advice, I’ve always suffered with my periods since starting them.

I’ve tried lots of different contraceptives and found I’m really sensitive. I’ve had 3 children and don’t plan to have any more. I had an ablation done in 2021 which reduced bleeding but made pain more intense, pain at ovulation was also high. The gynaecologist was reluctant to give me hysterectomy as I’m only 34 so started me on prostap and HRT every month. Before injection is due I get really low heart rate and feel everything is an effort, for 48hours after injection I have nausea and sickness similar to morning sickness/hyperemisis. After my last review with gynaecologist 7 months in shes offered me hysterectomy but not taking ovaries.

I’m just wanting advice on if people have been In similar positions and what they did. TIA

[Jessdoss]

Thankyou for the response, do you have pain at ovulation

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You could have your tubes tied. Anxiety over!! Otherwise hysterectomy will sort you out-no more periods!! I have never understood why the reluctance over hysterectomy because there are so many things that can happen if you still have a uterus when it is redundant! You have your family, then you can enjoy them worry free!! Good luck.

[ShyeLoverDoctor]

same with my friend. “You might want more kids! No hysterectomy for you!!” Finally I think she was like 51, one of kids was in college, two in high school, she changed doctors and finally they gave her a hysterectomy and problem solved.

[ShyeLoverDoctor]

Forgot to mention this - I had 4 fibroids they grew very fast. I had zero symptoms because the big one was grapefruit size and hanging onto the uterus by a stalk with a rich blood supply. I would have bled to death if it broke off. One of my ovaries had literally grown onto the side of my uterus so had to be removed with it. She left the one remaining ovary “to protect my heart.” I have polycystic ovary disease and that one ovary still put out enough hormones that I had to keep taking more orally. Do not ask me how that works. I just wish she had taken it out too. I grew another fibroid or maybe a cyst on the remaining ovary but it is only two inches. My nightmare would be if they ended having to do surgery again to take it out. They are “watching” it. I hope you do get relief with having the hysterectomy

Oh - one time my friend started going to a new doctor and complained about bad cramps she’d had for years and the doctor said “Oh that’s due to your fibroids it’s in your chart.” She had been diagnosed with fibroids with her previous doctor and the doctor didn’t even tell her. I mean…What a mess.

I loved never having to worry about suddenly getting a period or getting blood in my garments because of heavy flow or feeling like I was wearing a diaper. I did have pain from the hysterectomy for a couple years- even after the doctor said I was healed but that’s because it was a 4 hour operation getting all the growth out, and I would have bled to death without a blood transfusion. The gave me my own blood back, autotransfusion. Hey- I am not trying to scare you out of getting one because you most definitely need relief!!! Occasionally you do end up with pain that lingers a couple years past when the doctor says you are healed. I went to a consulting doctor who did an ultrasound and say Look I can’t find anything wrong, but a lot of women experience this lingering pain with no explanation. But my life was in jeopardy., I had to have that operation, and it was great never having to deal with a period.