tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post8905731728172844887..comments2024-01-29T23:40:39.265-05:00Comments on Hysterectomy - the Experts Speak Out: Hysterectomy and the Loss of Uterine OrgasmHERS Foundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-38126328340678904022017-04-05T21:31:28.082-04:002017-04-05T21:31:28.082-04:00Please forgive me, thiswas written after a visit t...Please forgive me, thiswas written after a visit to obgyn.net and then the article it was closed to comments.I was in response to a woman interviewing a Dr Michael Moore.What are you a doctor of - speculation and study stats or a real doctor? Would you still function as you did if your penis was removed? Are any of these so-called women with large uterine fibroids larger than a 9lb 1 0 oz baby in utero? I had a fibroid along with my baby that size before I delivered her vaginally and was still able to have sex without pain and I have had uterine orgasms everytime I had sex , never had to fake one like most women do - I would bet that all those saying sex is better after hysterectomy have no idea what an orgasm is or feels like because without your sex organs how are you to have enjoyable sex? Now I am menopausal with a thickened endometrium and a few cervical polyps one of which was removed for testing- benign prior to menopause, but started post-meno bleeding I had a biopsy done on the lining of my uterus and malignant cells have been found so the solution To add insult o injury, I had a stroke in five years ago and can hardly walk now so I already hve nerve damage and shudder at the thought of more but the scare tactic now is cancer so it is necessary radical larascopic hysterectomy - this will end my sex life as I knew it because I know my orgasms were uterine and my G-spot and cervix also helped to heighten my pleasure with my hubby after I found a man that took the time to learn my body's responses, this being hubby #2, first one was pathetic, did not know anything and not willing to learn he could have used playboy to ejaculate rather than get a wife, he was always finished before me - that's when I too used to fake orgasms for his benefit, not mine, I was too sensitive and sensible he was a physical abuser too, to let him know how terrible he was in bed LOL and he was well endowed - useless - it's like giving a powersaw to a carpenter but not show him how to use it after all he has used was manual saws. Having said all this, I have not been told by this surgeon the extent of the malignancy, seen no pathology report nothing was discussed just what she would be doing, no explanations I got all the information about the nature of the surgery from the Cancer Society's website thank God for Dr. Google, I guess surgeons are paid to do surgery nothing else and this may be how they are trained because she's teaching others to be just like her in this teaching hospital but being college educated with a major interest in Biology I know quite a bit about my own anatomy had to give my younger sister a lesson recently when she told me I do not need my uterus anymore that's what male doctors have told women for years once they pass child-bearing years but a man needs his sex organs for life so he gets Viagra, It's a man's world - no I am not a man hater even after my hubby of 30-years left me as soon as I had the stroke, good thing he left before this recent diagnosis he would hardly want a pocket-vagina have not seen any changes in my sex life post-menopause At 55 I am as sexual as I was in my thirties I just have to find a guy with a penis the length and girth of a fig, the banana relative for those of West |Indian background and that likes cunnilingus<br /><br />Sexually Aware,<br />Sex is too good to live without it!SexuallyAwarenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-76647833743153465352016-09-22T20:18:50.809-04:002016-09-22T20:18:50.809-04:00Anonymous,
That sounds horrible! I'm so sorr...Anonymous,<br /><br />That sounds horrible! I'm so sorry you are going through all of this. I hope that you keep fighting and find a doctor/surgeon willing to do more for you. It took me a few years and countless doctors to find one willing to open me up for the third time and clean out scar tissue and leftover endometriosis after I had everything out (including ovaries). At least that made the pelvic pain far more bearable. wish I could say the same for the hormone stuff. Best wishes to you and know that someone cares!Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03277206039482571182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-76328217863351960692016-09-19T08:01:41.548-04:002016-09-19T08:01:41.548-04:00Hi there,had a hysterectomy due to endometriosis s...Hi there,had a hysterectomy due to endometriosis some years ago, complications at the time,5 years ago a marshmallow type lump in groin, had a hernia op complications due to scar tissue struggled to put me back together. Now 18 months ago problem with bladder urinating 35 times a day up 7 times during the night, drinking 500ml of fluid daily due to constant pressure, had a camera in bladder ? Been on various tablets with crap side affects stopped taking them. Could I have scar tissue attached to my bladder causing all this ? I did mention this to surgeon and was dismissed.<br />My sex life stopped about 5years ago, vagina well its closed up I supposed !!<br />The pain was extreme like having sex with a razor blade,so my husband is the enemy.<br />The GP can't do an internal, constant infections !! NO HRT for lots of reasons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-76937259143796669172012-09-27T11:31:18.076-04:002012-09-27T11:31:18.076-04:00Yazzmyne, yes, please do post the article on your ...Yazzmyne, yes, please do post the article on your forum. Thank you for your support.HERS Foundationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08624611382874234485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-75581125176565832082012-09-26T23:47:31.619-04:002012-09-26T23:47:31.619-04:00Thanks for sharing this article. When signing the...Thanks for sharing this article. When signing the petition, you can't sign it if you live outside the US though, because it keeps asking for a valid ZIP code and the state has to be filled in to.<br /><br /><br />Can I post this article on my forum to spread more awareness about gynecology abuse?<br /><br />http://womenagainststirrups.proboards.com/index.cgiYazzmynehttp://womenagainststirrups.proboards.com/index.cginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-74222943303860693622012-07-27T11:49:00.833-04:002012-07-27T11:49:00.833-04:00John & Erica,
Thank you for posting. I'm s...John & Erica,<br />Thank you for posting. I'm so sorry that you both have been affected by the horror of hysterectomy. <br /><br />I don't know if you check back here but if you see this, would you both please copy and paste your "story" to the current HERS blog? Thanks.Guttednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-25603410659359035632012-07-18T09:15:16.335-04:002012-07-18T09:15:16.335-04:00As the husband of a woman who had a hysterectomy, ...As the husband of a woman who had a hysterectomy, I would like to THROTTLE the idiot surgeon who said "Here are five choice. Pick one." You went to med school, stupid. NOT me! <br /><br />Our sex life has been destroyed by this. My wife has no libido and I am so sexually frustrated and resentful toward her I could scream! We had GREAT sex before the surgery. Now she is an absolute block of ice, and I am so unhappy. No, the surgeon still seems clueless about the possible outcomes after the surgery. How is it that she did NOT know this? My marriage has been ruined by this sex-ectomy! I would like to round up every surgeon doing this procedure and summarily EXECUTE all of them simultaneously. You guys are LIARS and you SUCK!!!Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-27591498754424157702012-06-22T09:28:29.328-04:002012-06-22T09:28:29.328-04:00I wish someone had told me all the stuff I now kno...I wish someone had told me all the stuff I now know about hysterectomy BEFORE I'd had it. I wouldn't have had it. I am one of those women who used to have "toe curling" cervical orgasms. Even occasional multiple orgasms. True Nirvana. Clitoral orgasms were like an appetizer. Great, but when is the main course?<br />After hysterectomy, I didn't even want to know if I could still have one because I knew it would never be the same.<br />Now, years later, after some experimentation, I discovered that I can still have a clitoral orgasm, very light and only once or twice, if I'm lucky- and it takes much longer to achieve. <br />I was on antidepressants for 10 years because no one told me what to expect. I have had weight gain, bladder problems, hair loss, dry skin, achy joints (now osteoarthritis),and the feeling of being "less than".<br />If you have any possible alternative, DON'T HAVE A HYSTERECTOMY!!!<br />It will ruin your sexual life.Ericanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-14204222713178351342012-02-25T11:42:07.369-05:002012-02-25T11:42:07.369-05:00For the record, as someone who works in the medica...For the record, as someone who works in the medical field, doctors use the term castration all the time when refering to removal of ovaries. It is what it is. My own doctor used this term to discuss it with me. <br /><br />It's been almost seven years since my hysterectomy and loss of ovaries and while I can still orgasm, they are shallow and dry. This is not something I am making up. It's a reality I am not going to shove in the closet because it might offend someone.<br /><br />LauraLauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-58230450924993264222012-02-25T11:36:27.932-05:002012-02-25T11:36:27.932-05:00Good on you Bobbie, but some of us, a lot of us ha...Good on you Bobbie, but some of us, a lot of us have no sex life anymore because of this awful surgical procedure.<br />I'm approaching 4 years and have had sex only 6 times, and each time was horrible and sad.<br />And it is castration, worse than that, its de-sexing.Sad to say Chaz Bono is more woman than I am.<br />So I now have a sexless marriage and a horrible life. <br />And to me, a life like this is not worth having.Elisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-66098947411079984382012-02-22T09:56:45.979-05:002012-02-22T09:56:45.979-05:00I think referring to this as castration is degradi...I think referring to this as castration is degrading first of all. I also call BS on the no orgasm part. That is a fallacy and one that kept me from getting my hysterectomy years ago. <br /><br />I recently had no choice because of cancer and pain, and orgasms are just as good with as without. I wish people would quit spreading this myth as gospel No doubt it may affect some, but there are also some it doesn't affect!!Bobbiehttp://lifeisfullofboogerbutts.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-82388298205744187022010-02-14T18:46:03.258-05:002010-02-14T18:46:03.258-05:00Yes, Sherrie, they really get out of their way to ...Yes, Sherrie, they really get out of their way to mutilate us and they benefit from it. First, they make a lucrative income and get paid twice as much if they also unnecessarily remove the cervix rather than just the uterus. Then, they make sure there is an ample supply of female reproductive organs for experimental and teaching purposes to serve their research interests, their academic reputations and their publication lists. (The use of our organs does not require informed consent because patients ‘do not own their tissues removed during surgical procedures’. That way they don’t have to share the money in case their research leads to the development and patenting of a new drug.)<br />I have experienced that the general medical community closes ranks when one is left with numerous health problems after an avoidable hysterectomy. I've also been told several times I should get onto antidepressants. Is this to deal with the damage or to put the responsibility back onto the patient? Or is the assumption that the physical problems are caused by depression? I feel that for consumer/patient information, the Hippocratic oath should be rewritten: First, do not do harm to your fellow medical practitioner, especially, if more qualified than yourself. Second, protect your fellow medical practitioner at all times. Third, when treading a patient, ensure principles one and two are adhered to at all times.Connyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295282643389860940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-11342215105047773482010-02-12T18:18:44.020-05:002010-02-12T18:18:44.020-05:00It is disgusting when Dr's say those kind of t...It is disgusting when Dr's say those kind of things Conny, and scary. Your not the first person to bring that saying up, and there is a growing number of women who are saying it, and other things about Dr's 'stockpiling' organs.<br />My personal opinion is that the medical profession continuously goes out of its way to main/mutilate and destroy women. In an age where sexism should not exist it is rampant in the medical profession and it has taken a tremendous toll on women. <br />What I'm curious to find out is; How many of us, after being mutilated, have gone to their Dr. with a health problem directly caused by our mutilation only to be told 'Your depressed.' and offered antidepressants? Or had our complaints laughed at and were told 'Thousands of women are happy(thrilled,use whatever awesome word here)with their hysterectomy! Why aren't you?'Sherrienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-12862793823756171862010-02-11T22:38:16.041-05:002010-02-11T22:38:16.041-05:00When I questioned the necessity of my total hyster...When I questioned the necessity of my total hysterectomy I was told that being in my 50's it was time for me to donate my reproductive organs to science. We're living organ donors!Connyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295282643389860940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-60045332903976947712009-12-13T12:55:09.429-05:002009-12-13T12:55:09.429-05:00I have a hunch the biogentic and the scientific re...I have a hunch the biogentic and the scientific research communitiy is stockpiling female reproductive organs.KimKimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-3906373462865151142009-11-17T14:47:42.663-05:002009-11-17T14:47:42.663-05:00I too suffer. I no longer have any sex drive and ...I too suffer. I no longer have any sex drive and holding by urine is a joke. I can't even hold by stool without loosing control. I have to make sure I have gone in the morning before leaving the house. A few times just bending over to pick up something causes me to go in my pants. Even exercise that involves jumping leaves me all wet between my legs. It is embarassing and demeaning. I don't even share this with any of my family members or friends. Is there any help for any of us? As far as uterine orgasm, I really miss that feeling. Nothing like it<br /><br />Is there any hope for any of us?<br />November 17, 2009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-69508993887208065662009-05-18T00:07:00.000-04:002009-05-18T00:07:00.000-04:00I'm reading all this and feeling it all becaus...I'm reading all this and feeling it all because now I've joined the ranks of deformed, mutilated women.<br />I was destroyed November 12 2008. In August of 2008 I was diagnosed with a large ovarian tumor. Though my CA125 came back normal and only a small amount of free fluid was found in my pelvis (possibly from a rupture of the tumor) I was sent to the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center in West Virginia.<br />I was told this was possibly cancer and given a nurse who would over see my chemo treatments. I was told again its probably cancer. They wanted to yank it all,plus my lymph nodes and my omenteum (the fat layer over your intestines). My husband and I clearly stated that we wanted the tumor & ovary it had wrapped itself around removed. They had permission that if it was cancer then they could remove everything.<br />Guess what? They removed a 16 pound 12 inch, by 8 inch by 4 1/2 inch non cancerous tumor, my right ovary & tubes, my uterus, my cervix, all the pelvic lymph nodes, my para aortic lymph nodes, my omenteum, left me with a 3 inch vagina that is twisted to one side, a 13 inch long crooked scar and are now lying to me about it.<br />You know who I was before November 12 2008? I was the funniest person, always laughing & cracking jokes. My life was a running gag, I loved it!<br />I was an artist going places, and everyone knew me for my art.<br />I was a happy wife with a happy husband and our sex life was so good that we often joked about it being so awful to have so much fun!<br />I was a Mom with 4 kids at home & we were always having fun. Hiking, swimming, playing, whooping it up.<br />I was politically active, going after thieving,lying cheating politicians and the folks covering their dirty tracks.<br />I was planning on becoming pregnant again, hopefully with a daughter to pass a family name on to.<br />I saw my period as 'my week off' and for years called it 'the blessing' because that was my week to feel like a woman, to lazy off and create only the kind of art that comes from being in tune with your body.<br />I had a great body, strong legs and arms. My hair turned white at an early age so it was a great contrast to me.<br />I knew who I was, what I was and knew that where I was going was going to be the best place.<br />Since November 12 2008? My life sucks.<br />My legs and arms are numb & weak. I am in physical therapy now (twice a week) because my left hip bulges 3 inches more than my right.<br />I can still use the bathroom (thank God!) but taking a leak is actually that now. The muscles you use to urinate are so destroyed that I can sit for 5 minutes and go in spurts. I have done a lot of toilet reading since November 2008.<br />I have dreamless nights. On the rare instance that I dream it is usually a nightmare of someone killing my children. The last nightmare I had was February, and no dreams at all.<br />My sex life is nonexistent. Believe me, we have tried and it was a failure. I can feel nothing, and he is horrified at what used to be my vagina. But we still love each other, and though I told him over and over again to leave me, divorce me, find a real woman who can have sex, he won't. He says he loves me and that me being alive is all hat matters to him.<br />My children ask me when am I going to laugh and smile again. They ask me not to leave them and not to die. They know how bad it is for me. It breaks my heart when they all join me in doing my PT exercises at home. When they hold me up while we walk to the bus because its hard to walk.<br />My art has suffered. Ideas come, bang around my head, but its hard to make it come out. My fans, my promoters all ask me when are you coming back? I can't answer them, because I'm not even sure when 'I'll' come back.<br />I trudge through the motions of life. I have become obsessed with a clean house, scrubbing and washing everything, over and over again.Thats not me.<br />I am a shell. I am disconnected. I am no longer female. I am a neuter.<br />My gums have receded from several thousand dollars worth of dental implants to replace teeth destroyed by phenobarbitol when I was younger. Whats going to happen when the dental work falls out & all I have are screws and posts?<br />I look around me, seeing it all, but I no longer exist here. I am no longer biologically convenient or needed.<br />My Dr wants to shove me full of anti depressants when I am not depressed. Depression is anger turned inwards, mine is fully visible. Lets give me hormones that cause cancer. No thanks. I take no chemical compounds and intend not to.<br />I feel sorry for those women who think that hysterectomy has somehow improved their lives. I feel sorry that for them the reality of being female was an inconvenient to them. I would gladly take a long painful period, a prolonged period, cramps, whatever over the death I have now.<br />I am just beginning my battle to have justice done. No amount of money will ever replace what I lost. But I hope that when its through my story will prevent other women from the living death that hysterectomy leaves in its wake.<br />I get to see my butchers for the first time since November 12 on June 5th. I've caught them in one lie already, and all my years as being a bad guy buster has paid off in the fact that I have people who have gotten my records by deceit before these butchers have a chance to destroy them all.Save The Cats Of Monesson!https://www.blogger.com/profile/15955816652968228842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-83468611517083515912009-05-14T01:01:00.000-04:002009-05-14T01:01:00.000-04:00To Shelly
Nope!! Not a darn thing will bring it al...To Shelly<br />Nope!! Not a darn thing will bring it all back. Won't even bring a flicker back. Welcome to club zero! <br />( Be sure to write and thank the butcher who made this all possible for you )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-47776278927536486332009-03-22T19:50:00.000-04:002009-03-22T19:50:00.000-04:00Hi My name is Shelley and I am 43 years old this y...Hi My name is Shelley and I am 43 years old this year. For years I seeked help from my family doctors and OB's asking and looking for something to help me. I even sought counseling cause I thought something was wrong with me, in why I didn't want to have sex with my 2nd husband. I didn't understand....I was 28 or 29 when I got that procedure done. except they took everything out. uterus and falopian tubes. I got married again to my 2nd husband at 30. within 1year we started having marital problems, sex was the big one. I thought maybe he didn't turn me on...cause by then I was having sex cause he needed it. I got nothing from it. after 9years we divorced. Nobody could help me. My doctors would recommend estrogen/progesterone and then black cohosh. Now I have been taking effexor since a year after my hystorectomy cause i was emotionally unstable. i thought my marriage was the problem. I can't explain how long I have been searching for answers....and now I am with a wonderful man, who loves me....and I don't get sexual or get feel the need for sex. when we have it, it is nice cause I love him...i want to please him, but to be completely honest I don't feel the need for sex and that distroughts me. cause now that I am reading this...I don't know what to say. I have been castrated at 28/29 and now I am 43, and NOW i know why i feel the way i do...and all these years of no dam doctor knowing why i am feeling the way I am is downright malicious and I am completely heart torn. I have been raped of my woman hood. cause some doctor said I had endometrius or what ever that is, and me so out of it in pain, my dad gave the dr permission to do that surgery on me. I can't remember the doctors name but i think i can find out the hospital...corpus christi tx is not that big.<BR/><BR/>What can I do? is there any kind of surgery to change this? any kind of implant? or is there meds that can help my sexual desire at all??<BR/>ShelleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-90968441433689691582008-08-16T12:29:00.000-04:002008-08-16T12:29:00.000-04:00I'm 45. I've checked my fibroids for 10 yrs. one o...I'm 45. I've checked my fibroids for 10 yrs. one of them is 12 cm now and all the docs say I need a hysterectomy... but in case of surgery I'm an ASA III due to my thrombophilia (already had 3 trombosis and 1 heart attack).<BR/>I've always had painful periods and great loss of blood BUT as I said, ALWAYS. nothing new. even if i'm on coumadin now nothing's chanced. my only "chance" to avoid surgery is to be near menopause. I should have a blood work after my next period (which doesnt arrive!!!! 38 days without it, really strange for me)... I sometimes look pregnant, sometimes no...I'm stressed out thinking about surgery and really dont know what to do...I'd prefere to avoid it. I want to call an homeopath to help me to get to the menopause and avoid surgery... what do you think????<BR/>sorry for my English, not my mother language<BR/>LoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-28891825708973649052008-04-28T15:20:00.000-04:002008-04-28T15:20:00.000-04:00May-Grant Associates Lancaster PA. May-Grant Asso...May-Grant Associates Lancaster PA. <BR/>May-Grant Associates Lancaster PA, gave me a hysterectomy and I did not need one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-7059929564330297762008-04-28T12:46:00.000-04:002008-04-28T12:46:00.000-04:00Why are the doctors removing your cervix? why are...Why are the doctors removing your cervix? why are they removing your ovaries? this is scare tactic medicine. Cancer scare tactic is not a disease. Your uterus could be saved by seeing a doctor who knows how to heal you not cut you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-32484106954345233192008-03-10T15:42:00.000-04:002008-03-10T15:42:00.000-04:00I have a hysterectomy scheduled and am very reluct...I have a hysterectomy scheduled and am very reluctant. I am 43 and have had endometriosis for years, and it has gotten worse. I have only one ovary due to ovarian cancer running in my family, and a cyst that was suspicious. I have been told by 3 Drs. (all in different practices) that it is highly recommended. I have another ovarian cyst, a very large fibroid cyst, and an enlarged uterus. My uterus is so large is indents my bladder causing blood in my urine and pain. The Endometrosis and Adenomyosis has been surgically treated several times and it only comes back worse. If I have this hysterectomy it will be a total one, ovaries anad uterus will be removed. Currently, pain is so bad, I've had to give up running, and sex with my husband. I can't imagine the hysterectomy being worse than this. Not all hysterectomies are unnecessary, although I do worry about the side effects and the hormone therapy. I've talked to several women that have had hysterectomies and have had little side effects, all of these women went through extensive counseling before and after the procedure. It is scary, but my life now is painful and horrible without it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-64635159889053045312008-01-22T15:18:00.000-05:002008-01-22T15:18:00.000-05:00Okay I sit here wondering how to say what i feel c...Okay I sit here wondering how to say what i feel crying my eyes out after reading all this storys that are so close to home. I had a hysterectomy when i was 28. I too am unable to carry on a life that i once had. I have no feelings what so ever for anything but my kids... Seems there are the only ones who have not turned on me because of my medicial problems that i have had since my surgery. No one seems to understand the truth to the way i feel inside. I dont even feel like a woman no more like an empty shell of who I once was fighting to get it back. I dont feel like I can be a wife because it seems that no matter how hard I try its never good enough for him makes me feel like im inaddequite for him. He always is gonna leave me to find someone who can love him right make him happy. Being acussed of sleeping with someone else because not sleeping with him. Dont they understand its not them its a problem with me i dont want a sexual realatioship at all with no man. Leaves me feeling that im not a woman enought to please him. Which also effects my kids because there dad is always gonna leave because there mom cant please him or make him happy enough to stay here. So not only am i miserable seems my kids are also being affected by the outcome of my surgery. Once again i was told that the sex life would improve after the surgery the pain would go away he didnt tell me my sexual desires and interests would also go away.. It was a great concern that having the surgery would change my marriage and sexual life i was assured not only by the doctor but also by my husand everything would be okay...boy was everyone wrong!!! My husband has left me numberous times mainly over sex issues if i cant make him happy he will just go find someone who can. Well let me tell ya you can only be told this so many times until nothing at all matters anymore. I truley no the only reason im still sane is my two kids i love with all my heart or im not sure where id be right now!! I suffer day after day and there dont seem to be a end in sight if there is any help out there for me please please let me no my email address is slb111974@yahoo.com... Thanks for listening to my story SherrieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4326528465005359200.post-80506108242161007652008-01-07T13:02:00.000-05:002008-01-07T13:02:00.000-05:00Thank you Nora Coffee and the HERS FOundation for ...Thank you Nora Coffee and the HERS FOundation for opening my eyes, 35 years after my own Gyn/Surgeon deceived me into signing a consent form, without the necessary 'informed consent' required by law for these sex organ surgeries.<BR/><BR/>This is cruelty of the worst kind.<BR/><BR/>My life has never been the same since my surgery and no physician I have ever consulted has even begun to deal with the real issues created by my sex organ surgery. I had both ovaries removed and a total hysterectomy done at age 24, and done because of deception and lack of full disclosure by my Gyn/Surgeon.<BR/><BR/>Apart from telling me that everything else would remain the same after the 2 sex-organ surgeries I had, and that I would need to take Hormone Replacement Therapy for the rest of my life and that I would no longer have my monthly periods, I was told none of the above techincal surgical details. None!<BR/><BR/>Even after my 2 surgeries (3 weeks apart) I did not fully understand the details of what was done to me.<BR/><BR/>My surgeon 35 years ago used a pencil and pointed to a 12-inch plastic figurine on his desk to point to the sex organs and body parts he would remove during my surgery, never mentioning the many blood vessels, muscles, nerves etc. that would all be removed and the displacement of my other body parts due to the removal of these major organs from my body.<BR/><BR/>I was lied to at that time, and 35 years later, this practice of lying and omitting necessary information from patients before and even after surgery apparently continues.<BR/><BR/>We all need to sign the HERS Petition to have 'informed consent' become law in this country and worldwide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com