Re: My Experience w/ Uterine Fibroid Removal
@ Ali: No, you should not be worried at all. If everything goes as expected, your recovery should be easy.
@ Khatti: Yep, they sound very similar!
BTW, I also wanted to let you ladies know that don’t every try to be “trooper” or tough-it-out when it comes to your health. When I started bleeding unexpectedly about a month or so ago….I downplayed it. There was one day when I bled A LOT but convinced myself it wasn’t “that bad”. I even convinced my husband (who btw happens to be a M.D.) that I was simply tired and we could wait to make an appointment to see my doctor the following week. That same say I passed out, my husband (thank GOD!) caught me in the shower as I fell (I had asked him to help me walk to the shower b/c I was feeling tired/dizzy), had to perform CPR on me, and I ended up being transported to the ER in ambulance. Turned out I lost half my blood volume and ended up transfused with 4 bags of blood. I can’t even imagine what would’ve happened if I passed out while driving, or if my husband wasn’t next to me to catch me fall, or even if I was alone in the house when I passed out.
Even after the drama above, I initially scheduled my surgery for end of May b/c there was “stuff” I wanted to take care of prior to surgery. But the meds didn’t stop the bleeding & my surgery last Thursday was scheduled almost at a last minute b/c my doctor said we simply couldn’t wait.
So yea….lesson learned the hard way for me. If your body is doing ANYTHING that’s out of the ordinary, please go get it checked out asap. Don’t convince yourself that it can wait until later. It’s best to be safe than sorry when it comes to your body.
Omg, Paheli, that is soo scary!! Shukar Alhamdullilah for your husband being there.
And I completely agree with you…we tend to shrug things off as “being normal”…I lived with endometriosis for 13 years, with my Ammi and I thinking that I was just unlucky with heavy periods and cramps..it took multiple miscarriages to finally turn the light bulb on my head and make me realize that I had a very serious problem. All those years of going undiagnosed did such a number on me, had we not ignored all the symptoms I probably would not have had to resort to IVF.
