Hysterectomy Surgery Tomorrow

I am finally going to have hysterectomy surgery tomorrow after bleeding for six long years. I am not looking forward to surgery, given my horrid surgery history. But I am looking forward to getting rid of the flood and whatever else may be lurking in there.

At age 22, I started having stabbing horrible pain every month, which increased drastically over a six month period. Yes, I saw a gyno, but he did nothing to suggest anything was amiss. Finally, after being doubled over in pain at work, the coworkers sent me home. I took tylenol and laid on the floor, it was so bad. I finally took it upon myself to go to a doc in a box, who took one poke at me and assumed I had appendicitis. His wife drove me to the hospital. I assured anyone who would listen that this was anything but appendicitis, including the surgeon they sent to consult. They finally listened to me and sent over my gyno at 10pm. I had been calling all day. He did an ultrasound and said he saw a "little cyst". I spent five days in the hospital with no definitive diagnosis by the doctor assigned to me (what a surprise). I had an infection, that was all they said.

Shortly after, I thankfully relocated back to my hometown and went to my old gyno and explained what had happened. He started following me on ultrasound and the cyst grew and grew, so within a few months, surgery was set. I had no idea what to expect. I don't do well on narcotic pain meds and ended up allergic to morphine. The surgery revealed extensive endometriosis and a consuming endometrioma in my ovary, which the doc thought had burst and caused my prior pain and hospitalization. That cyst wasn't little, it consumed my ovary.

Well, that surgery was successful, cause I went on to have two lovely kids via C-sections. However, neither of those surgeries were easy or without their own troubles. The first one, they did a dural puncture when putting in the epidural, which only happens to less than 2% of patients, which then caused me to have breathing troubles and the most horrible headache for two weeks. No drug could touch the headache and they even did a blood patch while I was in the hospital and it did nothing!

Amazingly, we decided to have another kid and this time I opted for spinal anesthesia to hopefully not repeat the epidural problem. Instead we got a new problem. Aside from it hurting really bad (as bad as the epidural did), it wore off. I repeat, it wore off DURING surgery. I could feel the doctors making snips with scissors, etc. I got more and more panicked but they said they could not do anything to not hurt baby. As soon as baby came out, drugs went in. Awful!

As you can see, I am not a prime candidate for much of any surgery....except twilight sleep. I have done exceptionally well with this....go figure.