Hysterectomy FAQ
Hysterectomy surgery is considered the 2nd most operated surgery in women after the cesarean or c section delivery. Here are few frequently asked questions about hysterectomy.
Hysterectomy!
Hysterectomy is a surgical operation that is performed to remove uterus. Uterus is commonly called womb, when a woman is pregnant baby grow in the womb. In few cases, fallopian tubes and ovaries are also surgically removed from the body. Uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries are placed in woman’s lower body.
Is Hysterectomy a Common Disease?
Histerectomy is not a disease its a surgery. In US Hysterectomy operations are on the 2nd highest surgical operations performed on women after cesarean or c section delivery. Approximately every year around 600,000 Hysterectomy operations are done to remove the uterus from the body. Roughly one out of three 60 year old women suffers with Hysterectomy.
What Risks are Involve in Hysterectomy?
Many minor and high risks are associated with hysterectomy. However majority of women don’t complain anything before or after the operation. Though just like any surgical operation, you may lose your life in it, chances are there will be heavy blood loss and emergency blood transfusion will be required. Bladder and bowl injury can happen during the surgery, often wound can pull open if you don’t take proper bed rest. It is recommended to take 4-6 weeks of complete bed rest after the Hysterectomy surgery.
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September 7th, 2009
Hysterectomy is not a disease, it is a surgery.
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, a reproductive, hormone responsive sex organ that supports the bladder and bowel. Whether the surgery is performed abdominally, vaginally, hands-on laparoscopically or laparoscopically by a gynecologist controlled robot, a hormone responsive sex organ is removed, the vagina is shortened, and there is a loss of support to the bladder and bowel. Women who experienced uterine orgasm before the surgery will not experience it after the uterus is removed.
When the uterus is removed women have three times greater incidence of cardiovascular disease than women with an intact uterus. When the ovaries are removed the incidence seven times greater.
There are 22 million women in the United States whose female organs have been surgically removed. Only about 2% were life saving and 98% were elective, a euphemism for unwarranted. Girls and women are not educated about the functions of female organs and they are not informed about the adverse effects of hysterectomy that have been well documented in medical literature for over a century.
Women who might ignore this promotion in an obviously commercial advertisement will be vulnerable to believing there are no adverse effects of the surgery. An article that makes hysterectomy sound simple and inconsequential is dangerous to women.
Read the new book THE H WORD, and find out what the medical literature documents about the well-known consequences, and what women report about the effects of hysterectomy on their bodies, their health and their lives, and read the Adverse Effects Data at http://www.hersfoundation.org.
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This article makes it sound like laparoscopy to perform hysterectomy is simple and inconsequential.
It describes the alleged benefits while not providing the well documented adverse effects. If you watch the surgery being performed on youtube (click on the video for physicians, not the sanitized patient version) you will quickly see that this is highly invasive destructive surgery.
Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, a reproductive, sexual, hormone responsive organ that supports the bladder and bowel. Whether the surgery is performed abdominally, vaginally, hands-on laparoscopically or laparoscopically by a gynecologist controlled robot, a hormone responsive sex organ is removed, the vagina is shortened, and there is a loss of support to the bladder and bowel. Women who experienced uterine orgasm before the surgery will not experience it after the uterus is removed.
When the uterus is removed women have three times greater incidence of cardiovascular disease than women with an intact uterus. When the ovaries are removed the incidence seven times greater.
There are 22 million women in the United States whose female organs have been surgically removed. Only about 2% were life saving and 98% were elective, a euphemism for unwarranted. Girls and women are not educated about the functions of female organs and they are not informed about the adverse effects of hysterectomy that have been well documented in medical literature for over a century.
An article that makes hysterectomy sound simple and inconsequential is dangerous to women.
Read the new book THE H WORD, and find out what the medical literature documents about the well-known consequences, and what women report about the effects of hysterectomy on their bodies, their health and their lives, and read the Adverse Effects Data at http://www.hersfoundation.org.