My apologies, Toodles, my comment should not have been about your sex life, you had not mentioned the sexual effects of the surgery. I should have been more general about the profound sexual loss experienced by women who were sexual before their surgery. When you said that the only side effects you had were gas and bloating, I wanted others to realize that the uterus is a sex organ and that loss of sexual feeling is inevitable if it is removed, and that the vagina is shortened and sutured shut at the top, neither of which is an improvement for women who experienced orgasm.
When you talk about the other side of the coin, some things are universal on both sides of the hysterectomy "coin". This is not personal, it is not between you and everyone commenting on this blog, it is an open forum read by many others, so it's important that the factual information about female anatomy and the functions of the female organs be explained.
The uterus is a hormone responsive, reproductive sex organ.
Women who experience uterine orgasm will not experience it without a uterus.
The vagina is shortened, made into a closed pocket, and sutured shut at the top.
When the blood supply to the uterus is severed the clitoris and labia become flaccid.
Because the nerves to the vagina and external genitalia are severed there is diminished or total loss of sensation.
Women who undergo hysterectomy have a 3X greater incidence of heart disease, and when the ovaries are removed the incidence is 7X greater.
The ovaries are the female gonads. Removal of the ovaries is castration, the same as removal of the male gonads, the testicles, is castration.
It's important to use the medically correct words about the effects of hysterectomy so that women understand the gravity of removal the uterus and ovaries. There are 22 million living women in the U.S. who have been hysterectomized, and nearly three quarters of them were castrated. One out of three women are hysterectomized by age 60, and one out of two women are hysterectomized by age 65. The female organs are removed from another woman every minute of every day.
HERS has counseled over 850,000 women. Not one was told the consequences of the surgery. Forums such EmpowHER have created the opportunity to bring this information to women. It is a moral and ethical imperative to ensure the information is factual so that women will not be further harmed by an impression that any hysterectomy is benign. The Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation was established in 1982 to provide the information well documented in medical journals, medical text books, and reported by hysterectomized women (see Adverse Effects Data at http://www.hersfoundation.com/effects.html). No woman can be said to have consented to hysterectomy without having been fully informed of her condition, the alternatives in treatment, the risks of the alternatives, and the consequences of hysterectomy and castration.
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My apologies, Toodles, my comment should not have been about your sex life, you had not mentioned the sexual effects of the surgery. I should have been more general about the profound sexual loss experienced by women who were sexual before their surgery. When you said that the only side effects you had were gas and bloating, I wanted others to realize that the uterus is a sex organ and that loss of sexual feeling is inevitable if it is removed, and that the vagina is shortened and sutured shut at the top, neither of which is an improvement for women who experienced orgasm.
When you talk about the other side of the coin, some things are universal on both sides of the hysterectomy "coin". This is not personal, it is not between you and everyone commenting on this blog, it is an open forum read by many others, so it's important that the factual information about female anatomy and the functions of the female organs be explained.
The uterus is a hormone responsive, reproductive sex organ.
Women who experience uterine orgasm will not experience it without a uterus.
The vagina is shortened, made into a closed pocket, and sutured shut at the top.
When the blood supply to the uterus is severed the clitoris and labia become flaccid.
Because the nerves to the vagina and external genitalia are severed there is diminished or total loss of sensation.
Women who undergo hysterectomy have a 3X greater incidence of heart disease, and when the ovaries are removed the incidence is 7X greater.
The ovaries are the female gonads. Removal of the ovaries is castration, the same as removal of the male gonads, the testicles, is castration.
It's important to use the medically correct words about the effects of hysterectomy so that women understand the gravity of removal the uterus and ovaries. There are 22 million living women in the U.S. who have been hysterectomized, and nearly three quarters of them were castrated. One out of three women are hysterectomized by age 60, and one out of two women are hysterectomized by age 65. The female organs are removed from another woman every minute of every day.
HERS has counseled over 850,000 women. Not one was told the consequences of the surgery. Forums such EmpowHER have created the opportunity to bring this information to women. It is a moral and ethical imperative to ensure the information is factual so that women will not be further harmed by an impression that any hysterectomy is benign. The Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation was established in 1982 to provide the information well documented in medical journals, medical text books, and reported by hysterectomized women (see Adverse Effects Data at http://www.hersfoundation.com/effects.html). No woman can be said to have consented to hysterectomy without having been fully informed of her condition, the alternatives in treatment, the risks of the alternatives, and the consequences of hysterectomy and castration.
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