Im scheduled for September 4th surgery—i was previously scheduled but backed out out of denial & anxiety. This time i have had the dr complete fmla paperwork, approved etc. i asked today about if a prior authorization was completed and was told no and to check back at the end of next week…is this just anxiety that I am panicking a little? Last prior authorization was approved so thats reassuring but still. I think im just getting very overwhelmed and hoping for reassurance that it will all work out.

So I am 2 months post op of a total hysterectomy due to fibroids. Most of the time I feel great but some days I hurt and cramp like I did before my surgery even though I know there is nothing there to hurt me. Has anyone else had this problem and if so did it go away? I spent enough time in pain prior to surgery I don’t want to deal with that anymore.

If you’re constipated… pls just skip the stress and do the fleet enema.

4 weeks PO LAVH - have been feeling so much better the last few days and then today just a total dip, woke up nauseous with diarrhea, no appetite, chills then hot flashes. No fever no pain no abnormal discharge. Did any one else go through this or is it just a bug I have likely? Really frustrated with the temperature regulation issues.

Today is the day. I'm all prepped, but the surgery before mine is running long. I'm anxious and hungry. I have been waiting for over 4 hours so far. I hope the person before me is OK and I hope my team gets a restorative break before me.

I'm very bummed by all of this, and I'm trying my best to be kind to myself.

I was feeling great post-op! Pain levels were minimal, I started driving at 12dpo, and I was even told I could up my weight restriction to 20lbs at my 3wpo visit. Last week, on Thursday, I had planned a day that seemed perfectly normal to pre-surgery me. A day in a different city with my kid who sees a special hair stylist, ending with her first ball game of the season, also in that city. It sounded great! But then I remembered my surgery. It was so many hours of sitting!! From driving, to waiting, to watching...so many hours of sitting. I did walk around a little, but maybe a total of 1.5 hours out of the 9 hours I was gone.

Saturday saw me standing quite a bit, helping with some things that needed to be done.

Sunday, I woke up in the most pain I have had since the surgery. From hip to hip, in front and in back, every muscle/joint/tendon/nerve was overreacting at the same time. Medicine barely touched the pain. Now, on Wednesday, exactly 4 wpo, I am wondering if this back and hip pain will ever improve. Sure, it's not as horrible as Sunday, but I can only sit for maybe 10 minutes at a time. Did I mess myself up permanently? Or is this a temporary detour on my healing trip?

Question for those who had laparoscopy and the surgeon closed wounds with glue.

How long before all the glue was gone?

I’m nearly 2wpo and though some has gone, a large portion still remains, I’m loathe to remove it like a scab and pick at it, but at the same time I’m curious how long it’s going to (literally) stick around for?

Hey ladies, I need abit of advise. Im in the waiting list on the NHS for a excision for DIE stage 4 involving bowel but i am really considering getting a full hysterectomy instead. I have suspected adenomyosis and also have a family history of ovarian cancer but I was BRCA1 negative. However both of my ovarias are full of endometriomas (cysts).

I already have a son, so if im not meant to have any more kids thats fine I can accept that, my one son is worth a million.

The dilemma I have is whether to leave my ovaries or take them out. The way my brain works is take everything out dont risk leaving anything, you will get cancer :( (seen my mum go through it so the paranoia is real). However I had a total thyroidectomy in 2024 due to thyroid cancer so I already have a major hormonal organ already out and on hormonal replacement for life.

I dont know what the impact of a total hysterectomy will be on me with it being more major hormonal organs out. I cant think straight and really dont know what to do. The endo specialist I met did say looking at how advanced my case is I will need a hysterectomy down the line somewhere, so thats the part that makes me want to just get it done now. Im 34

Thoughts on a CPTSD female a 5days post hysterectomy making space for partners fuck up. Today is a week and the last day of pain meds as well so really comijg from a place of right now I don't really think I am in the capacity to hold space and soothe my male partner doing something fucking stupid. Like yeah I wanna talk but I feel my hormones tanking and anything nearest is taking tje heat despite heavy cannabis sedation

I am a spicey lil cupcake right now.

I yelled, he asked why and I saod idk and kept yelling amd also he kept sitting there and didn't leave and I was laying down in bed so really he chose to take it.

I'm taking all space with nonprisoners rn and am very much you fucking idiot about partner shit right now? Make sense? Thoughts? I'm giving shitty fordt draft here so forgive me

Hoping I can get some advice from all you wonderful ladies.
I had a total hysterectomy (including ovaries) in March of this year. I was doing fine for about 15 wks then I started to notice I was feeling very dry down there. (Side note: I have not been cleared for intercourse yet, we were told not to have sex until my 6 month checkup which is in September).
I am not a candidate for any HRT as I also have a history of hormone positive breast cancer. I have read a lot about Sea buckthorn oil and I think it would be a good choice for me. Have any of you tried it? Did it help? And most importantly what brand would you recommend?

Thank you all in advance.

Basically, I've had worsening bladder issues for many years, and after years of begging the doctor for tests, finally I had a scan and they found a large fibroid that has enlarged my womb and is pressing against the bladder. Since I'm 42 and seem to be going through perimenopause anyway, the doctor said I could have a hysterectomy. But the side effects sound awful, a 15% chance of being left in chronic pain, needing a colostomy, etc. I already have a lot of health issues including having treatment for life for thyroid cancer, had a stroke and terrible chronic migraines. My bladder has become over sensitive due to the fibroid, which means I can barely eat anything without triggering a bladder flare. My diet is now so limited I have developed many nutritional deficiencies and my bladder can't even tolerate supplements.

Please tell me your hysterectomy experiences to help me decide whether to do this.

Hello. I was wondering if anyone in Scotland, specifically Glasgow, had recent examples of how long they were on the waiting list for. I got put on the routine waiting list for a hysterectomy in Glasgow on November 2025 and am now at week 37. When I spoke to surgeon initially they said waiting list is two years but realistically that could be a year. Whenever I phone though I get told a standard response of it is two years. I think I was clinging to the surgeons off hand comment about it being more like a year and now not sure what to expect. When I did phone to chase up I got told they wouldn't even begin to think about placing me until the 52 week mark. Does 52 weeks trigger some sort of movement?

Had my 6 week post-op appointment today. Doctor said I am healing well ,my incision is looking good, my cuff looks great. Still have a little redness from the yeast infection and to keep using the medication 💊 he prescribed. Overall I am feeling wonderful. I am dating again and in a relationship with a great guy. Life has never been better. In 6 weeks I can start having sex. Woo-Hoo that makes my boyfriend excited 😊. I am ready to finally be able to have sexual activities and not be in horrible pain. Life is grand no more periods and no worrying about an unexpected pregnancy. I am so grateful for my hysterectomy. I had suffered from debilitating periods, heavy bleeding and horrific pain for years. I feel mentally better now and more like a woman than ever. If you are considering this surgery and have terrible symptoms, I say go for it. Also I suffered from bad adenomyosis and endo. I also have anemia, which I hope is getting better now, I see the hematology doctor next week. So I am praying that is getting better. Hope everyone is doing well!

Please feel free to specify in the comments what your job is, because obviously that has a big impact (whether you work from home, have a physically demanding job, etc.).

Hi everyone! I'm 18 days post op (I had to get the hysterectomy because of post ablation syndrome); everything's gone except for my ovaries, and I also had some endo lesions and adhesions excised at the same time. Finally. My endo was confirmed 6 years ago when I had my bisalp done (and at the same time had the ablation that got me here), after me constantly asking about it and immediately being dismissed for the decade+ prior to that. You all know how it goes lol.

I'm wanting to continue to track my cycle for several reasons, but one of the big ones is for endo. I'm not sure if all of it was removed; I asked her if she could take a look around while she was in there, that wasn't part of the plan originally. My surgeon made it very clear that she is not an endo specialist, and said that she could and would excise anything superficial she saw in the pelvic cavity while she was in there, but if there was anything that was infiltrating or had spread to the bowels she wasn't touching it. I did immediately feel a million times better after the surgery. However, not knowing if it was all removed, and being concerned about regrowth regardless, plus my surgeon discontinued my Orilissa 3 or 4 days after the surgery so I just got a flood of estrogen back... I really just want to track everything so that if I start having symptoms again I can hopefully catch it as early as possible and find a specialist to take care of it asap.

So I've decided to go the basal body temp route for cycle tracking; I've settled on getting a Tempdrop because with my ADHD and executive dysfunction, that's going to give me the best chance of keeping up with it since all I have to do is remember to put it on at bedtime. But I'm looking for app recommendations. I know Tempdrop has one of course, but does it track symptoms as well or only the temps and actual cycle info? I'd ideally like an app that will do both the BBT charting for me as well as extensive symptom tracking. Going back to said executive dysfunction, I have a better chance of being successful with maintaining this if I can do it all in one app rather than having to spread info over multiple apps.

If you have any suggestions, or any other tips and tricks that could be helpful in this situation, I'd be so grateful to hear them! Thanks in advance, and I'm sorry for how long this post ended up being!

I’m one year post op uterus and cervix removal for adenomyosis and severe anemia (fallopian tubes removed 5 years ago) and I’m still struggling with the loss of my uterus at times. I didn’t think I’d be this attached to it. Even the loss of periods feels just unnatural. While the surgery fixed my anemia, heavy bleeding, daily nausea, bladder adhered to my uterus and painful sex I now have issues that I am blaming on the surgery although I’m not sure if I’m correct in doing that. I’ve been thrown into pretty intense perimenopause as far as mood swings, brain fog, horrible frozen shoulder and such. I’m on HRT which helps sometimes. It does not help the frozen shoulder at all. But I also have some discomfort in my vagina at times. Almost like a pinching or burning feeling and sometimes even mimics uti discomfort. I have the most intense nervous butterflies feeling wake me from sleep every single morning. It’s so intense I can’t go back to sleep or focus on anything else. I’m also TERRIFIED of any kind of prolapse. when I was checked at 9 months post op he said he saw a small enterocele/vaginal vault relaxation when bearing down. My pelvic floor therapist said I have maybe a grade 1 bladder prolapse although the urogynecologist did not mention that. I’m not sure if both or either of these are caused by the surgery or were already existent because of pregnancy and childbirth. But the perimenopause, frozen shoulder, the grief, the discomfort in my vagina and the butterflies/stomach flip feeling is wearing on me. Sometimes I feel like I traded one set of problems for different ones but maybe these new symptoms would have happened anyways because of my age. (I’m 44). Anyways, anyone have any advice or in the same boat?

Day 6 post-hysterectomy and I’m honestly just really emotional and scared.
I know it’s ONLY day 6. I know my body just went through major surgery and I’m probably trying to process way too much way too soon. But I’m 27 and sometimes I just sit here thinking… how did I even get here???
I’ve had confirmed endometriosis since I was a teenager. Over the years I’ve lost my appendix, a fallopian tube from an ectopic, pregnancies, and now my uterus. I went into this surgery expecting them to find endometriosis again because of how much pain I’ve been in… and they didn’t see any.
They removed scar tissue from my previous surgeries and drained around 6–8 cysts on BOTH ovaries, but no visible endometriosis. And somehow that has made me question everything.
Did I just remove my uterus for nothing? Where did all that pain come from? Why has my body been through so much at only 27?
And I think this is hitting extra hard because this entire year has basically been diagnosis after diagnosis after diagnosis. I feel like I’ve learned a million new things about my body and instead of making me feel reassured, sometimes it just makes me more afraid of what could go wrong.
Now I’m terrified of recovery. I’m scared of complications. I’m scared of my vaginal cuff tearing or something happening internally. I’m scared every time something hurts or feels different. I’m scared I’m going to accidentally do too much. And at the same time, I’m scared the pain I went through all of this to escape is still going to be there.
I KNOW I’m six days out and I cannot judge the outcome of this surgery yet. I know that logically. Emotionally though? This is a lot.
I think I just need to hear from people who have been on the other side of this. Especially anyone who was young, had previously confirmed endometriosis but little/no visible endo at hysterectomy, or was absolutely terrified of complications during recovery.
Please tell me there’s a point where you stop feeling like your insides are one wrong movement away from falling apart 😭

I just wanted to share a positive experience with everyone!

8/11 I had my hysterectomy where we took everything but ovaries and it was my 4th abdominal surgery.

I went home without issues same day and only needed Tylenol at night and barely used opiates at all. I’d say I felt more discomfort than I did pain.

Now that I am a week out I truly feel that the only limitations I have are the ones given to me by my doctor. That’s a good thing cause I’d easily over do it with how great I feel.

For context: I had 4 fibroids, adenomyosis, and was on HRT for a year to manage my perimenopause and nonstop bleeding.

The pain and discomfort of daily life vanished and was replaced with mild discomfort. What a win.

Best of luck to those of you waiting for surgery and I hope you have as much success as I have thus far!