The Hysterectomy Saga, 3/4
Part 3: What happened to my Back Pain?? Bulge at L5, source Wikimedia Commons, CC License I wrote about quitting smoking a few weeks ago. Catalyst for my quitting was the daily, excruciating back pain I experienced for over a year. After hysterectomy surgery on February 17 my back pain disappeared completely. Because of abdominal incisions, I have been unable to continue my daily yoga-pilates-core exercises which kept the pain at bay for the past several months. In the past 3 weeks I have done no core exercises, and taken no pain …
The Hysterectomy Saga, 2/4
Part 2: My Uterine Fibroids Borrowed from Tommy's.org. This is the relative size of a 14-week gestational uterus...it's huge, right!. At the time of my surgery, the benign masses had increased the size of my uterus to the equivalent of a 14-week pregnancy! I could press on my belly and feel the bulk of my uterus. This organ is normally the size of your fist (or rather one's own fist). For me, the three large fibroids meant: longer more frequent periods, with cramps--something I had not before experienced in my adult life the…
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