At age 11 I started my period it lasted a little bit over 4 months until I went in for a pap and when I got my results (at the time I wasn't thinking clear and didn't understand what was happening) I was told I would never be able to reproduce and my pap came back positive for stage 1 or 2 cervical cancer but my observations didn't want to do anything about it he just put me on birth control and I was to take 4 to 5 of the pills a day just to stop my bleeding so as the years went by I was put on so many different kinds of birth control and had so many procedures done and at one point I ask my observations if instead of me taking all these meds and suffering from being in pain all the time why not just take it all out so he told me when I turn 18 he said I could decide so me still bleeding constantly and always in pain I turn 18 and go in for a check up I went in for my results and they still were positive for pre cancer so I pleaded and begged for him to remove e everything (mind you I'm was 18 at the time) he told me I was still to young to make that decision he told me when I turn 21 ok so I waited till my 21st bday to go so Iiwent in for a pap since I had to get them e very 3 to 6 months since I was 11 and the results still came positive for pre cancer and at this time e I've had just about ever procedure done and all of them came back positive for pre cancer still my observations did not want to do anything... Ok a few months before my 22nd bday I go in for a check and that this point I am fed up with the run around so I demanded him to do exploratory search surgery and he finally agreed to it so I scheduled it for after my bday so in September of 2014 so I go ahead with the surgery I go in for my 2 week fallow up after surgery and he tells me u have very extremely enlarged ovaries and had 2 cyst on one of my ovaries and with one if the cyst no matter how many times removed it would come back a most likely be bigger so my ob told me to think about getting my ovaries removed or to just have a full hysterectomy he gave me a few days to think about it so I gave about 3 days and called in telling them my decision was to get a full hysterectomy done so we get it scheduled for October 2014 so I we t ahead with surgery as planned when I went in for my 2 week check up my ob told my it was very good decision to get the full hysterectomy done since they found polyps in mt uterus .... so I guess what I am asking is.. is there anyone out there who has or had similar problems? Because I keep beating myself up for getting a hysterectomy done at such a young age with out at least trying to have a baby but would like to no how would you feel or act if you went through this pretty much your whole life? It's like I don't even no how to act anymore I feel so lost and I haven't been able to find anyone with systems like mine I feel like I'm alone I just want to no if I'm the only one or are there more of you that went through this at a young age? I feel like I'm already hitting menopause and I'm only 22 years old... so if have or no someone who is or was going through it just please let them no they are not alone
I am so very sorry this happened to you! Frankly, I am appalled that any doctor would remove a young woman's uterus and/or ovaries without having cancer. I have struggled with having had a hysterectomy myself and I was 49 and had children! I have discovered that not only was I sold a "false bill of goods" most other women who have had organs removed were too.
With all the bleeding you had, did any gynecologist (or other doctor) ever check you for a bleeding disorder? Von Willebrand is the most common one in women.
You said you feel like you are hitting menopause. If both ovaries were removed, then you were thrown into surgical "menopause" immediately and should be taking hormones for quality of life and health aspects. If you still have one or both ovaries, there is a good chance they will stop working without the uterus. This is something of which you should have been fully informed before you consented to a hysterectomy. Sadly, most women are not told this.
Please seek out a therapist or a local support group who can help you work through your grief and regret. And if one doesn't help, move on to a second, and so on.
Please keep us posted on how you are doing.
Do you know that since having my hystorectomy that's one form contraception I can't take to don't know if it is the way my body has changed ottheway it's labeled by some young woman I think that and condoms are so un hygienic not so much the pill they way the pill is in speaker form but condoms think are most disgusting thing in vented
elizabeth - Maybe I misunderstood your post but why would you take contraceptives after having a hysterectomy since one cannot conceive after having a hysterectomy?