Okay...I think I'm scared...surgery at some point UPDATE POST 18

[robinh]

I had a cantelope sized fibroid and my Dr. was not able to do anything but TAH-BSO (total abdominal hysterectomy/bilateral salpingo oopherectomy) through a vertical incision. They took the whole works. My Dr. didn't want to leave ovaries - says she'd seen too many cases where they can cause trouble later.

None of it matters - surgery, incision, hospital, etc. My surgery was in 2001 and I started feeling better fairly quickly afterwards. The surgery was really worth it for me.

You are right about HysterSisters! Really helped me prepare before I had my surgery.

[carole]

My mother had to have a radical hysterectomy in her late sixties because of a prolaspe, they took the lot, no use keeping it at her age, and she had it done the laproscopy way, honestly i was really scared about her surgery, she was watching television that night after the operation, it was truely amazing, and really a breeze, i had seen many performed the abdominal way when i nurse aided in a private surgical hospital, and they were not nice, but that was over 35 years ago, and things have changed, still it takes a lot longer to recover, but either way you will be in good hands, and when it is all over I am sure you will be much healthier . good luck, i know how scarey it all is.