ask: Due to have a hysterectomy but am scared to death after viewing a video about side effects!
I have generally accepted my doctor's recommendation that I have a hysterectomy due to a very large uterine fibroid (15 cm) that is displacing my bladder. I also have cysts on my one remaining ovary so that's supposed to come out too. But after viewing a video link from your website, I don't know what to do. It was reported that 80% of women experience serious quality of life issues afterwards. I don't like those odds! Are there women out there who don't have serious problems after a hysterectomy? The link I viewed was from a Share story called Female Anatomy: http://hersfoundation.org/anatomy/index.html. I also have a history of breast cancer.
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oh my goodness! I just reviewed the video you are referring to, and I'M scared, too...and I am not in the position of having a hysterectomy.
I hope you use that information in a helpful way, even though it was presented in a poorly antiquated manner of using scare-tactics and omitting possible positive outcomes or helpful alternatives. This 12 minute video is talking to ALL women across the globe, some of whom have received medical advice to have a hysterectomy when one was not medically necessary. In those cases, the risks probably did not outweigh the benefits. Other women have had positive experiences with this surgery. I hope you talk to both sides.
1. Talk to as many women as you can about their experiences, side effects, adverse effects, positive effects and recovery.
2. Write down all the extremes you have heard about this surgery, both pros and cons (cons you obviously can get from this video!). Ask trusted health professionals about what is legitimate and what is not. What are the viable alternatives?
The take-home message from this HER Foundation is to not trust the medical community or government. I realize some people feel strongly about this, but what is the alternative? There are some amazing health care professionals that care deeply about their patients, about research and finding cures, and have devoted their lives to women's health. I strongly dislike "foundations" that suggest otherwise; there are extremes in all professions, but suggesting an entire profession is essentially evil is not going to have my support.
With that being said, you can tease out the nuggets of truth in what was presented in the video by talking with as many people as you can. I hope you hear from women who have experienced this surgery.
3. Use your own experience. How many women do you know who have had a hysterectomy? Probably many. I know of many, and they have had different experiences, both positive and negative. I have not seen any of them with a protruding belly and no waist (as the video mentioned). It sounds scary for the video to say that there is an "unnatural shift of organs" and "organs are displaced", but isn't that what happens with a pregnancy? Aren't our bodies made and prepared for organs to shift? What about other surgery where organs are removed...does this cause a displacement as well? I would put these scary statements in perspective, but also use them to ask questions from multiple sources.
4. Ask your doctor about your specific concerns, possibly regarding "severing nerves" and how this "impacts the nerves in your nipples" (from video), as well as "searing pain in your butt and knee" (also from video). I'm not sure how this is accurate?! I have not met any women with these experiences. Are there women you can talk to who have undergone the same procedure with your doctor?
5. Lastly, as much as the HER foundation is trying to protect women, it is not helping women in feeling empowered. I know I left the video wanting to crawl away and hide; not exactly health information that provides energy and motivation for action.
You can choose to be skeptical of all things "institutional" or "medical", you can choose to blindly believe everything "medical", or you can choose to be a wise consumer of health (as you are!) and find all the information you can while wading through the extremes...and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
It is wonderful to have organizations like HER fighting for our rights as women, sending out petitions and advocating for our health, but they may not the best source of health information, in my opinion, when you are faced with real-life medical choices.
That's my take. I realize this does not answer your real question about what the side effects of a hysterectomy are, and what real women have really experienced. I assume you have already done extensive research, and heard some additional information from this video that you are questioning. Are you concerned any specific adverse effect that you can share?
April 5, 2009 - 7:49pmThis Comment
This is in reply to your post, Alison, and also this post is for Terri. I hope you both read this. I hope, most importantly, you do, Terri.
Alison, I was bothered by your comments. You made it sound as if the Hers Foundation and this video is portraying some one sided view to having a Hysterectomy. You do not even get what they are giving of time to help women to not have this unwarranted, unnecessary, life altering surgery. If the video they provide is appearing as "scary", I would hope so. You state, "...presented in a poorly antiquated manner of using scare - tactics..." How else can they present the truth to this? It is nothing less than "scary" what doctors do to women. I pray you are reading this, Terri. Do not have a Hysterectomy. Pay attention to what the Hers Foundation is providing with information. Do you realize they are trying to help you and other women from having this done to them? There is no going back either. The damage done will be, as I said, "Life altering". I know from personal experience. I had a TAH type of hysterectomy several years ago. I wish I would have seen this "scary" video done by the Hers Foundation. This is not one sided. This has happened to millions of women. It is estimated 600,000 women each year are talked into having this surgery done. It is a money making avenue for doctors, hospitals, etc. who will benefit from this. Unfortunately, the woman having this done, does not. The "etc." part I mention are all who benefit from a woman (as an example) who has to go and see other doctors, have tests done, seek whatever help in the aftermath of her hysterectomy because she does not feel well and worse afterwards. This may vary from seeing other GYNS, technical tests done, medications prescribed, purchasing helpful HRT products, other methods of helping one feel 'normal' after this hysterectomy. So many profit in the 'aftermath' of a woman's bad hysterectomy; except her. I have done the gambit of this myself. I would add up that after the hysterectomy, I have spent (and the insurance company) $20,000, at least. Now, I am not even speaking of the cost of the Hysterectomy itself. These are the costs incurred in the "aftermath" of a Hysterectomy; with me just trying to get help to feel normal again. I still feel awful. I pray you never go through what I have experienced with having a Hyst., and it was just from a couple of benign fibroids causing heavy menstrual bleeding. Had I known about the Hers Foundation then; it could have saved me from what I now live with daily. If you felt one day of what I experience, Terri, and you, Alison, you would run (I mean RUN) out of any doctor's office who said you need a Hysterectomy. I was told by my OB/GYN who I had so much faith in that I would feel "so much better" after having this done.
He pushed me so hard into having it done right away also. I found out later it was due to my insurance changing. (Long story here, but that was why he pushed for immediate surgery performed.) He wanted to take everything too - not just my uterus, but my ovaries, which were fine, and also my appendix. "While I am in there, why not get rid of your appendix. You don't need it." He also wanted to remove a birthmark on my labia which never caused me or my husband any problems. There was no medical reason to remove it. It would only be added dollars for him, and the hospital. I look back on this now, and could cry. I put my whole trust into what he recommended. He never told me about alternatives, and most won't. He even got angry with me when I asked him, with what information I had gotten at the time, about a Myoectomy as an alternative procedure. He said, "No, you need a hysterectomy, and this will save you. You won't have to worry about anymore bloody periods, your sex life will not be altered. You will feel so much better." The only thing he was right about were the periods. He never told me about how damaging this would be to my body. He never told me about my cervix being removed. He never told me about all the ligaments and nerves severed. Oh, I have one thing to mention, as far as nerves. He already knew I had Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, which is a nerve disease which started out in my left leg and spread. He did not even consider this. One doctor, a GYN I went to see after the Hyst. to get help from, said she would not perform a Laprascopy on me when I asked for one to see inside me to see what was wrong after this Hyst.. She said she would not take a chance to further damage my nerves by this procedure/surgery since I have RSD. Why didn't the doctor who did the Hyst. not think of this? Well, I know why, and he was out to make the "almighty dollar". Here was a doctor I had seen for seventeen years, and put all my faith into what he said to me. I have never been so mislead and mistreated by a physician.
I have been the same as a man being castrated. I can never get my organs back which were the basis to my physical and emotional being and functioning. Read what other women post, not only at the Hers Foundation site, but others. If there is a matter of to "tease out the nuggets of
truth", I am one of those "nuggets". So are millions of women like me out there who have experienced the same. Do you, Terri, want to wind up like one of us? There are too many adverse effects to list here. Are you married, or have a significant other? Get ready for a complete different sex life. I should say rather; get ready, Terri, for a severe lack of. Is your partner ready for this? My husband's and my sex life was at a '10+' before; after even being married for twenty years. It was spontaneous, do it in the shower before work, French Maid outfit (one, as an example), fish net stockings, and 'do it' on the lounge chair in the family room when the kids were not home' type of love making before the Hyst., but now... I cannot remember the last time we made love. I should have my husband post here. He can share with you the shell of a woman I have become, and only after the Hyst., and I won't get into the depth of my many physical problems, but there are many. I was so active and vibrant before my Hyst., and I am lucky to get out of bed in the morning on some days. I have to sleep with a heating pad, at all times, on my abdomen to help with the pain. I am always fatigued, feel off, have no drive, have insomnia, feel horrible back pain when I bend over for over a minute, gag when I brush my teeth, have some family and friends question what happened to the vivacious, active, and achieving person they knew before, and wonder what happened to my fantastic sex drive I once had.
Scary video? I hope so. I hope it will make one stand up and say, "No way, doctor! You are not going to take my life away! Kiss the ground that the Hers Foundation walks on. They are only to be commended for getting the 'word' out. Any comments one posts about this "Foundation" to an ill nature, will receive my feedback in two fold.
Terri, please, oh please, do not have a Hysterectomy. I implore you! Do not wind up with problems I have described here, and other ones also. You can find alternative procedures. For goodness sakes, listen to me. There is no going back. If the doctor who you are seeing is not providing to you alternatives; then run, not walk, out of his office.
Alison, as I said, I hope you are never faced with this decision. In
the meantime, I ask you to go to the Hers Foundation website and read what women have posted. Check the 'Archives'. You, Alison, have not a clue what we have experienced; the ones who faced this horrible decision;
then talked into the wrong choice. So many women's lives could be so much to the better right now, had they seen the Hers video, in order to
make an "INFORMED DECISION". Hers is a foundation which is providing
what knowledge they have formulated, and they are FACTS. I can vouch
for this; as I am one of their 'nuggets' of factual information which
they provide. "Scare tactics"? The only person who sounds scary to me is you, Alison. Yes, Terri, talk to other women, and this is an avenue for you. But, anyone to put lesser creditionals/lesser quality as what
Hers Foundation (yes, foundation, Alison)is helping with and providing to women is a ridiculous thought. Do you think these women, along with me, are making this up? You, Alison, will only know and appreciate this when you actually live in these women's bodies. Until then, do not put down and bite a helping hand feeding you... This is a money making business for doctors to get away with. When you realize this is the prime reason, and really, really do your research; then do a post. Again, I hope the Hers Foundation video scares the "He.." out of women. Remember again, there is no going back once this is done. Also, a man could never live with his balls gone, and half his penis removed. Why would anyone ask a woman to do a surgery asking the same? Well, it is done, and millions of women can vouch for this. I am one of them. Not any doctor would ask a man to have this surgery done, and I think we know; any man would run out of a doctor's office telling him, "You will feel so much better afterwards. Your sex life will not be altered either" (etc. etc.) Why would this be any different for a woman?
I hope the best for you, Terri. If you need to talk with anyone, go to the Hers Foundation website. People are there to help. If you want, my husband will contact your husband/significant other. I also hope the best for you, Alison. Just keep your wits about you if ever you are faced with a doctor telling you that you need a Hysterectomy, and RUN, not walk out of that office... ("Scare-tactic"? I certainly hope so.)
April 6, 2009 - 8:20pmI almost missed your post because it was right after Alison's from yesterday. I commented below before seeing it.
Boy, you've really hit a nerve! There hasn't been a response more passionate than yours! I am so sorry for how you feel. I can't even imagine it. Let me reassure you, I am going to look into alternatives. I don't want my identity, my personality to change. I pray that you have some joy in your life despite your physical problems.
Terri
April 6, 2009 - 11:15pmHello Terri,
I am not sure if you were referring to my post or another's. Whatever the case, so glad to hear you say you will check out alternatives. Trust me on this: it will not be just your identity, and personality changing. The physical problems alone are enough. If you were responding to my post, I thank you for your kind thoughts.
Terri, I made a pact with myself. I cannot go back in time and change the damage done to me, but I will help any other female I hear about who is told she needs a Hysterectomy. Even if it takes one woman at a time, I will help promote to stop this insanity done by doctors. I wish someone would have told me. I try not to dwell on what was done, but I do wake up each morning to face another trying day, and before I get out of bed, I admit, I curse the doctor who left me to deal with my daily trials and physical damage done to my body. Then I finish with a prayer, and I ask for strength to make it through the day with less pain than the day before, and thank the higher power for the good things I do have in my life - a supporting husband, my children, 'true blue' other family and friends, and also pray that I can find answers to help me now after this damage done to me. Whenever I read about another woman who after me had a Hyst. done; I wish I could have reached her before she had gone through with it, and read about her now dealing with the same damage. This just breaks my heart, truly. So, Terri, I am reaching out to you.
In generations to come, I guarantee there will come to pass where this horrible injustice done to women will fall along the lines as the holocaust, slavery, and such. Women will say, "I can't believe this was still happening in the years of 2000..." (?) Hey, it was less than 100 years ago that a law was passed so women could vote. Hers Foundation is trying to get legislation put into effect so women are made aware of and to be informed of this life altering surgery and know alternatives. If you read the Hers Foundation blog and archives, you will find women who have posted have so much in common. Not only with the same physical problems, but that they were not told by their doctors of alternatives, and not made aware of the complications which may arise (I would like to say "will arise") after this type of surgery. Too many of the same and common statements are made by doctors; i.e., "You will feel so much better. Your sex life will not be affected. You must have this done or you may face awful consequences if not done."...etc., etc., and why are we all posting these same statement? It happened to me, so I can vouch for this. I will love to see the day when this surgery is banished, and only done for a truly valid life threatening reason, and doctors have to own up to why it is actually the only route to go, and have it verified and justified by more than just one physician, and 'Legal Eagles' on board to back this up, and verify the woman has been well informed, and watch how many hysterectomies will cease. Watch how doctors will try then to become educated on how to perform Myoectomies and other alternative methods which they didn't think to bother with before. Heaven forbid they make less money. I would love to see where insurance companies demand that a doctor proves the Hyst. is necessary, and documents are signed by the female stating she has been made aware of the problems which may arise from this type of operation, she has been made aware of all alternative procedures available, she has been given these options, and this signed and witnessed. If this information is not provided to the female (and would love to have it where a woman must see the Hers Foundation video), the insurance company will not pay for. Gee, what a novel thought?
See Terri, get me going, and I could write a book. I am not alone with how strongly I feel, and would not appeal to you if this was not so important. I hope I have helped as others who have posted here. Please contact the Hers Foundation. You will be in communication with only people who truly care. I care. So, you take care, and heed the words which are only written to save you. I mean this with all my heart. Please tell that doctor who says you need a Hysterectomy to 'take a hike'...
Take care, dear Terri. You will be in my thoughts.
April 7, 2009 - 1:16amYes, I was responding to you (SeeDandy1). Thanks again for your last two posts (below). I have already started researching myomectomies. There is a Dr. William Parker at UCLA, an expert on fibroids, who has a podcast on this website on the subject. If need be, I'll consult with him!
Terri
April 7, 2009 - 7:39amHi Terri, I think Dr. Parker is a good choice of someone in your neck of the woods (assuming you're from southern CA) to perform a myomectomy. If, by chance, he suggests uterine artery embolization, sometimes called uterine fibroid embolization, check it out at uterine artery embolization . com. (spaces inserted so that it could be posted here). There are serious, permanent complications which have been reported to FDA, including several deaths. The FDA reports are public, they can be accessed by Googling "FDA Maude", then go to the simple search, and enter uterine artery embolization, where you can read the actual reports.
If you're considering undergoing a myomectomy, send an email to HERS and we will give you some important questions to ask a doctor, and the answers you should expect that will help you evaluate their surgical skill and their outcomes.
April 7, 2009 - 7:03pmHi,
Sorry I offended. My response was intended to not lecture or demean, but to offer another side to this choice. Yes, choice. I am all for advocating for women's health, but not in a way that uses scare tactics. Yes, I said "scare tactics" again. Medical and health information that is "real" may not necessarily be what we want to hear, it may not be good news, but it does not need to jump to the extreme of "scaring the health" into us. "Real" health education can provide all sides of the story, both pros and cons, and this makes the information credible, reliable, and leaves the decision in the other persons hand. I do not believe in telling someone what to do with their medical decisions; I am not in their shoes, do not presume to know their medical history, and do not pretend to be a doctor. I can encourage, influence and provide information, both from research and my own experience...but that's where it needs to end. For us to say "never! don't do it! run away"! is not helpful, and is actually hurtful and takes away another person's power of choice.
My goal is to help Terri find the best information, in an informative and empowering way; information from research, patient advocate groups, women's experiences, traditional medicine, alternative and complementary medicine, and everywhere in between. Then, the choice is hers.
I wish you the best; I really was coming from a place of care and compassion.
Take care,
April 7, 2009 - 12:02pmAlison
Hello, and this is in reply to your last post, Alison,
I certainly can appreciate you are coming from a place of care and compassion. Perhaps you still do not understand the "compassion" of what has been posted by me and others who have posted here to make sure Terri does not go through with this. This is "real". What has happened to me and millions of women to be talked into unneccessary Hysterectomies is "real", factual, and "women's experiences". There are too many of us out there who put their faith and trust into the doctors and medical providers who told millions (yes, again, millions) of women this was the best and only option. As I said before, there will come a day when this type of surgery will be almost outlawed; except, when truly a life threatening circumstance. Research masectomies with women. Plus, women, once this is done, cannot go back. Scary, yes. I live every day with scary with the aftermath of my symptoms; all due to the Hysterectomy done to me for a needless reason.
I will never forget talking to a 26 year old female at the Hers Foundation conference I attended in Pasadena, CA. in November of 2007. It was so hard for me to make it there, by the way. I could barely afford the travel expenses, and physically hard on me, so hard, but I did it; hoping I could find answers and help and talk with other women who have gone through this. Well, I spoke with this gal during a break at this conference. I asked her why she was attending. She said she was trying to seek help also. She was told she had to have a surgery due to a problem with endometriosisis (sp?). She got the "scare tactics" put into her by this doctor she trusted. She came to find out, when she woke up from surgery; this doctor not only took her uterus out, but took her ovaries also. She wanted to have more children. She told the doctor this. She found out later, by doing research, none of this was necessary. She started to cry while I was talking to her during that break. I thought, "She is so young. How could a doctor do this to her?" He is the one who would know (she thought) to make things right.
She was not only crying, but expressed to me how awful it was for a doctor to take advantage of her. Oh, she had good insurance. I asked her about that. This is just one story. While I was there at this conference, I spoke with others who had their same horror stories to share. So many had the same stories as far as putting their faith into doctors, and believing what they said to be the only route; i.e., a Hysterectomy, and again, the common statements doctors made were: "You will feel so much better after having this done. You won't have to worry about anymore bloody periods. Your sex life will not change." Then, there were the stories, like this young woman's - being put under the knife, and coming out with everything removed, and unknowing of this, but had to be done. If we want to speak of "scare tactics", Alison, look first to the doctors doing and saying this to all these women; including this young woman and myself, and all the other women I witnessed at this one conference alone. I do not think they were there for any other reason then to question why this could happen in this day and age, and how doctors continue to get away with this. Pretty scary is what I thought when I left that conference.
I do not know if you are married, but if so, how do you think your husband would be after his sexual organs removed? Do you think he would be the same? You must understand the correlation here; in that, it is the same for a woman. Doctors do not tell women this. There are also so many women who have had this done; yet, they are afraid to speak up for fear, yes fear, that family, friends and doctors will say... "It is all in your mind." I feel sorry for these women also, who have to keep what they really feel and tolerate with pain, and in a silent 'Hell'. My heart goes out to them too. They are champions, as the rest of us. Oh, Alison, you have no idea what we live with daily... But ask your husband/significant other if a doctor told him he had to have his testicles taken off and half his penis removed if he would have it done? I guarantee he would say "Never", but only if it was life, truly life threatening. How would he be; however, in the aftermath? You sound like a very compassionate person, and sure you would be there to support him, but do you think he would be the same? Would you be the same?
Women are taken advantage of, and this has to stop. If this would be the same for men; there would be everything out there, as far as alternatives given to men to save their organs. Why should this be any different for women? It is a shame we do not have our sex organs on the outside of our bodies. What is not seen must not be. I do not think we can count our breasts as sex organs, but precautions are now met to save women's breasts (thank goodness) and any male would understand this. Again, why not our uterus, ovaries, cervix, etc.? These are our sexual organs along with the gift of bearing a child.
You are trying to help, I know this. You, I hope, will never have to be subjected to having to make a decision as this for any problems with your female sexual organs. I hope I have empowered you to get the word out to have women check all avenues before doing any kind of surgery, and I stand strong with my statement still: "Run, do not walk out of a doctor's office" if the word "Hysterectomy" is mentioned. Speaking of walking - walk a mile in the female's shoes who I spoke of who I met at that conference. She will never be able to bear children again. Her body is so 'messed up' now, physically. She has more problems now than before the Hysterectomy. She is not alone, but the poor girl - to be told one thing, and then wake up to a nightmare afterwards, is the sickest thing I can think of for a medical professional to do, and her story is not unlike so many I have heard; including my own.
You take care, Alison.
April 7, 2009 - 6:28pmTerri,
I'm glad you saw HERS Female Anatomy video. Yes, it is scary, but there are some things in life that we should be afraid of, so perhaps it will make you reconsider undergoing a hysterectomy.
Fibroids are benign growths of muscle and connective tissue that grow until you reach menopause. Then they slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size, at which time they will be small and calcified.
The average size of the uterus including fibroids in the late thirties to early forties is a ten to twelve week pregnancy size (about 13cm in the largest dimension), in the middle forties fourteen to sixteen weeks is average (about 17cm in the largest dimension), and in the late forties to early fifties eighteen to twenty weeks is average (about 21cm in the largest dimension).
Fibroids have two rapid growth spurts that are natural, predictable, and not a cause for alarm. The first rapid growth spurt is in the late thirties to early forties. Then you have a few years of slower growth. Right before you go through menopause, when you have the hormone changes associated with the beginning of menopause, you have the second and last rapid growth spurt. Then the fibroids slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size.
You develop all of the new fibroids you are going to have in your 30's you do not develop new fibroids in your 40's.
Both estrogens and progesterone stimulate fibroid growth. Many women use the so called "natural" progesterone yam cream that promoters claim shrinks fibroids, but in fact it makes them grow.
Fibroids are not a disease, they are your genetic blueprint. If you can live with the symptoms it would probably be better than unnecessary intervention of any kind. If you cannot live with the symptoms a myomectomy is a reasonable option. You never need a hysterectomy for fibroids unless you have the wrong doctor. If a doctor tells you that you have too many fibroids, they’re too large, or they’re in a location that makes myomectomy impossible you’re going to a doctor who doesn’t have the skill to perform the surgery. There is no such thing as fibroids that are too numerous, too large, or in a location where they can’t be removed if the doctor has the skill.
If you're interested in finding a doctor with consistently good outcomes with myomectomy contact the HERS Foundation. You might also find it informative and helpful to read what women say about hysterectomy on HERS blog. Go to HERS website and click on "Blog" in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
Nora W. Coffey, President
April 6, 2009 - 7:24amHERS Foundation
I was not fortunate enough to have viewed the HERS video before surgery and so was not alerted to the practice (not evil) of hysterectomy by the medical community. This practice is akin to when radical mastectomies were done for breast cancer (with all it attendant horrific aftermath) by the medical community instead of simply removing the tumor. The video should not scare women, it should empower and inform women of the very real consequences of the surgery.
What this does is allow women to compare the consequences (risks) with their present symptoms and then make an educated decision as to how to proceed. Without the information in the HERS video, one would not be able to make their decision from a position of strength, instead they would assume that their symptoms dictated the necessity of surgery and would only know the presumed benefits.
I am trying to choose my words carefully, and use the word "presumed benefits" for a reason, one might be told that no more periods are a benefit if they are having bleeding problems. But the real goal should be in how to establish a healthful menstrual flow, how to improve reproductive health or how to improve overall health.
As someone who was give a hysterectomy for fibroids, there is no comparison to the amount resources I've had to devote to my health and well-being post-op versus before surgery of if I had not pursued a surgical solution to the fibroids. While the surgery has cost me much in research, health, finance, career, relationships, my options have been reduced and my results don't compare to the amount of effort I put into my day-to-day living.......
For anyone looking to do a little more research I would recommend the following resources:
1) HERs website http://www.hersfoundation.org
Foundation supplies many topics/references on the issues pertaining to hysterectomy, this site should be a must-see for any women contemplating hysterectomy or post-hyst
2) Weston A Price website http://westonaprice.org
Foundation disseminates research of nutritional pioneer Weston Price, they have a link dealing with Women's Health and much more. From their work, I realize nutritional health is the foundational support in combating any disease or condition.
3) Katie Singer website http://gardenoffertility.com
Katie is an author who does books concerning reproductive health, fertility awareness, and natural family planning. Her books will
open you to greater awareness concerning one's reproductive health.
After my surgery while I developed a number of health issues, one issue was hemorroids. Because I had never had them, I didn't know how to proceed and while I got my condition confirmed via MD. I went online to see how other people treated the condition and how they faired with those treatments. What I found was that, even with treatment people were battling this very painful condition for multiple years. This was not a condition I wanted to battle for multiple years or even multiple weeks, I found a homeopath and was given a homeopathic remedy for hemorroids which cleared up the problem immediately, fortunately, I haven't been bothered since. Finding out the consquences of a treatment is most defintely an empowering step.
April 6, 2009 - 8:51am