How Hysterectomy Works

This video by TV360 shows you a personal perspective of a woman who underwent a hysterectomy.

How Hysterectomy Works I was playing golf with my brother and I was on the 17th green and I had this incredible feeling that my tampax was sliding out and I thought that’s really weird because I haven’t worn tampax in 10 years because I’ve been post menopausal. My uterus was proplasing which means literally was falling out and there are different stages. So mine was at a stage two and the stage three is when it actually comes all the way out. So I made an appointment right away to see the Gynecologist and that’s when I learned a lot more actually after prolapsing uteruses and that they’re very common in post menopausal women who are about 60 years of age which I am. I thought about how I would feel about having a hysterectomy particularly a full hysterectomy and I know that so many people, so many women have very deep concerns about their womanliness and those sorts of things. I have two grown children. I have grandchildren so having the surgery on my reproductive organs frankly wasn’t an issue for me. The issue was I had a medical thing happening and I wanted it repaired. I wanted it to be over with it so for me it was really a celebration of moving forward in my life. I had a number of surgical options the progress for a traditional hysterectomy will primarily that it’s a surgery that’s done all the time we’ll pretty much know how to do it, what to do, what the outcome those sorts of things so that was a good thing. The pros for robotic surgery there were several one was that there would be hardly any scarring and that the recovery time would be much, much shorter probably most likely. The cons for the robotic surgery were that it was brand new at that time and I believe I was the third person actually to undergo it here. But the good news was that if anything happened and it wasn’t working out very well they could just go to the traditional hysterectomy surgery and the operation would be completed. The experience that I had in terms of the course of my recovery, apparently is fairly typical of people who have robotic surgery, it’s simply a very quick easy recovery. Two weeks later by New Years Ever I was out New Year’s Eve and dancing and went back to work on January 3rd. My hysterectomy was on to December 14th so I was fully functioning, fully back at work. Basically within two weeks not quite two weeks.