I had mine due to fibroids, heavy periods, major cramps.
For three years I was seeing a ob/gyn who kept telling me I was in perimenopause and this was just how it was going to be for me.
Each month I was getting one or two periods. They would last 5 days and be so bloody I became anemic and very weak. The blood would flood the bed at night and my husband once looked at me and said..."how can anyone bleed that much and still live". It was also the clots. Huge clots and intense menstral cramping. I was wearing super tampons and a big pad and having to change every hour!
I went to a different doc and we talked Endometrial Ablation, and that sounded wonderful to me, it would stop that flow,and I was all for that. I went in for my pre-op appt for the ablation and she did a digitial exam, and then a internal ultrasound and saw that I had 4 fibroids. One the size of a 4 month pregnancy, the other three crowded in beside. My bladder was smashed by the fibroids...No ablation for me, it had to be hysterectomy.
One month later...I have had the operation, I am 2 weeks 1 day post op. I had a few setbacks with the bladder procedure that were not so good, but now all is going fine. Other than an intense fatigue if I over do, I feel I am healing well and quickly. I had an abdominal removal, as my fibroids were too large to remove it vaginally. When they got in there they found adhesions and scar tissue they had to work to clean up. I ended up having to have a total hysterectomy due to scaring and adhesions.
All in all, I know my quality of life just too a huge leap to the better!
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