uterine fibroids
I'M 40YRS OF AGE, IN GOOD HEALTH, DON'T SMOKE OR DRINK, WORK OUT REGULALLY, YET I'VE BEEN GIVEN SOME DISTURBING NEW,(WAS JUST GOING TO AN OBGYN FOR INFO ON TUBAL) MY OBGYN SAID THAT A VAGINAL EXAM WAS REQUIRED, BECAUSE IF HE WERE TO PERFORM A TUBAL HE NEEDED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE WOULD BE UP AGAINST...EXAM TIME, "YOU HAVE A GROWTH THE SIZE OF A 14 WEEK PREGNANCY" I, BEING VERY NERVOUS AS WAS, (WHEN I'M NERVOUS I JOKE) I RESPONDED, MY NAMES NOT MARY...MEANING NO SEX NO CONSEPTION, ANYHOW, THE DOCTOR WENT ON TO SAY, ITS NOT A PREGNANCY, ITS A FIBROID...FINISHED HIS EXAM, WENT INTO THE OFFICE TO DISCUSE THIS FIBROID, MY HEART WAS RACING AND I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO PASS OUT...IT WAS LIKE I HAD LEFT MY BODY AND I WAS WATCHING A MOVIE..HE RAN DOWN A LIST OF OPTIONS (7) YET THE HYSTERECTOMY (PARTIAL) MEANING THEY LEAVE THE OVARIES AND CERVIC SOUNDED LIKE THE ONLY ONE FOR ME, AFTERALL I INITIALLY WENT TO THE DOCTOR RE; TUBAL, DONT WANT ANYMORE CHILDREN, AND I HAVE A FORIEN OBJECT INSIDE OF ME...TAKE IT OUT, MAKE IT GO AWAY!!! IHAVE TO RETURN FOR ANOTHER EXAM..TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT ALL IS IN PLACE AND NOTHING IS FALLING DOWN(BLADDER ) ETC, EXACT LOCATION OF FIBROID, INTRAMIRAL( ON MUSCULAR WALL OF UT OR SUBSEROSAL,ON OUTER WALL OF UT OR SUBMUCOSAL ON THE INNER SURFACE OF UT)..PROCEDURE BEING..LAPAROSCOPE..WHICH I'M VERY COMFORTABLE WITH BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE DONE VAGINALLY, YET WHAT ABSOLUTELY SCARES THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF ME IS GOING UNDER...IM TERRIFIED, I NEED TO KNOW EXACLTY WHAT I'M DOING EVERY SECOND OF MY LIFE, THIS IS JUST HOW I AM...I GO BACK IN 4 WEEKS TO SET A DATE FOR THE PROCEDURE...IM ALREADY SHAKING...SHOULD I BE THIS NERVOUS OR AM I JUST BEING A SUCK? PLEASE WRITE TO ME, WALK ME THROUGH IT. NERVOUS DUTCH. TLA1@ENFI.COM
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