I am ecstatic to announce that it has been 7 weeks since my hysterectomy and things are normal!! I hesitate to say “normal again”, because I don’t think that anything was really ever that normal. I lived with Uterine Fibroids for so long, I think I just forgot how it felt to be without them.

The good news is, the Lupron shot finally wore off for me about the 2nd week after my surgery. I could tell because my mood lifted, my night sweats stopped and I felt emotionally capable of living life. They tried to give me another one before I went in to surgery and I took a firm stance and told them they’d have to kill me to inject that poison into me again.

I know that many of you are trying everything you can to avoid a hysterectomy because you would like children in the future, but let me just say that if you are not concerned with that – GO FOR THE SURGERY. I have a horizontal scar – the hardest part was not being able to wear jeans for 5 weeks. You can have a hysterectomy laproscopically, but my Uterus was so enlarged, they had no choice but to cut me wide. I have a picture of my Uterus and it’s HUGE. Weighed in at 13lbs, although I don’t remember the dimensions.

Anyway. I just wanted to do a follow-up. Hopefully I have helped someone.

I hope you all get what you need. Never let your Doctor run YOUR life, and here’s to everyone’s future!

Cheers!
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I have recently saved enough money to pay for my treatment of fibroids and began seeing a doctor last month. My hemoglobin levels were at 6, and after sooo many years of fighting fatigue, I can’t get this taken care of fast enough.

Although I have an abdomen surrounded by fibroids, I continued to have a normal, but very heavy period – normal bc it came on time every month, but wouldn’t last longer than 5 days – just really heavy.

I was given a Lupron shot on October 28th and regret it terribly! I also had a blood transfusion on November 17th, which is now a waste as I have been bleeding for 19 days. I wish I would have had the opportunity to read up and then deny the Lupron, but I didn’t bc my Doc sent me quickly bc he was worried. Things went to extreme hell after the shot, and pretty quickly. At first I was very nauseas, then I practically had an emotional breakdown, and now I am severely depressed (at times actually praying I die during my upcoming scheduled hysto on December 18th). I am also experiencing major hot flashes followed by severe freezing. I started my period on November 9th and haven’t stopped (23 days now). I am scheduled for another Lupron shot on December 8th, but will refuse it.

Like I said, I am scheduled for a uterine hysto on December 18th and have mixed emotions about it (not about having my uterus taken out – I would have been satisfied not being born with one in the first place), but with being down for 6 weeks having to rely on someone to help me out and not being able to be as active or work (self-employed). As I stated earlier, I am deeply depressed and have to fight through it hour by hour. I will be telling my Doc I want to sign a DNR – that’s prob 50% depression and 50% rebellion thinking there.

I just needed to vent somewhere bc I’m not the type who usually talks to people, but I’m also a little exhausted from holding it all in.

I have also noticed I rarely want to leave the house – I haven’t gone anywhere in over 2 weeks, and have only eaten 3 times within that time as well.

Here’s to a successful surgery – one outcome or another.

Thank you for being here. I wish the best to all of you.

First, I got my shot on Monday instead of Friday b/c they forgot to order it at the doctors office. But I did talk to my doctor about whether or not I should continue it and it was a joint decision to take the 2nd shot, stop taking BC pill to see if my blood pressure goes down (150/90 extremely bad), and see how my blood test comes back as. So since Monday afternoon after getting my shot my spotting turned into bleeding and on Wednesday when I got my blood pressure checked again it was 144/100. And I feel horrible. Not sure if its the shot or just my body breaking down. lol..eventhough I’m only 29. So I’m going to see if I can work the week and just go to my reg. gyn appt on Friday when I have my ultrasound to voice all my worries and concerns. Not sure though because its Sunday and still bleeding with clots and feeling sick.
Oh if anyones wondering…not on any heavy medicine other than the Lupron shot. otherwise its my nasty iron pills, folic acid, vitamin c, and a multivitamin…so the high blood pressure issue might just be that I have high blood pressure. It just decided to show its ugly head while all these other things are going on in my body.

Just a quick update. I’m going in on Friday for my 2nd lupron shot. I’m unsure if I’m going to get it or not because I don’t seem to be reaping any of the benefits of it. I took the shot in hopes of stoping the heavy bleeding and spotting. And since the shot I have been doing nothing but spotting and I don’t think that helping any with my anemia. So we’ll see what happens.

I’ve had three of the one-month shots, except my drug is called Lucrin. Same drug, different name where I live. I had barely any shrinkage in the first two months and was pretty gutted, but three weeks later i had another scan and the fibroid had shrunk from around 10cm at the largest dimension, to around 8.cm. Taking into account that the other two measurements had some shrinkage too, that works out at about 40% less volume, which is awesome as far as I’m concerned.

I haven’t had any of the moodiness or loss of sex drive I was worried about. The main symptom has been some crazy hot flashes throughout the day and night, which are annoying but easy to cope with as they only last a few minutes. I also have some muscle aches, particularly in my legs when I stand up after sitting down for a while, but that may not be related to the shots.

Other than that it’s all been good and i may be able to have a laparoscopic myomectomy next week, rather than the big open abdominal myomectomy. I won’t actually find out which I’ve had until I wake up, so please keep your fingers crossed for me ladies.

I hope all goes well with you if you’re taking Lupron, please keep posting your experiences.

I’m 28 and just had my first Lupron shot 10/16/09. So far the only side effects I’ve experience are the sweats, headaches, and back pain. But I’m unsure if its side affects from the shot or from me being severely anemic. My last blood test say my hemoglobin was at 8.6 which was up from the 8.1 it was early in the summer. I guess its a “wait and see” on any other major side effects and to see if it helps to increase my iron levels before my doc schedules surgery. As of right now i just want the fibroids out . I hate being tired, sick and in pain all the time. And my fibroids are only 5.5cm and smaller so I’m unsure of why I needed the lupron?

FYI I contacted WordPress and they were able to fix the blog!!!

I’ve asked if it was an actual malfunction or the domain mapping wasn’t paid up or whatever…. and will continue to follow through on this is just in case.

I really hope the whole thing is working again and all the regulars come back!

(for those who get ALL the comments emailed to them, sorry for all the repeat posts, but I want the message to get through to everyone!)

I’m going to try and find it this weekend! I will also look for one of the 14 day cleanses I’ve seen those in the store as well, how soon after the shot did you start your cleanse? A few weeks after last shot or after your ten weeks healing from surg? I know it takes 3-4 months after the last shot for lupron to start wearing off…So if my last (3 month) shot is in December. Then the by the end of March the lupron would be out my system and this is when I’m supposed to TTC. So would I cleanse in Dec or March?

You have been a huge help! Thank you, Thank you!