{"id":17585,"date":"2024-12-02T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:24:48","slug":"so-youve-had-a-hysterectomy-do-you-know-what-was-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17585","title":{"rendered":"So You\u2019ve Had a Hysterectomy. Do You Know What Was Removed?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stacia Alexander was 25 and pregnant when her OB-GYN first recommended a hysterectomy. It was 1996, and an ultrasound had revealed fibroids growing in the walls of her uterus.<\/p>\n

But she knew what the procedure had done to her mother: After her ovaries and uterus were removed in her 40s, her mother faded into a sad, irritable shadow of herself.<\/p>\n

So after giving birth, Dr. Alexander opted for surgery to prune back the fibroids. Years later, when the growths returned, she was again able to avoid a hysterectomy by choosing a uterine ablation, in which the lining of the uterus is burned away to prevent bleeding caused by fibroids.<\/p>\n

But by the time she was 45, the fibroids were back, and her doctor informed her that she was \u201ctoo old\u201d for another uterus-sparing surgery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Alexander, a psychotherapist in Dallas, was already on the operating table when a surgeon came in and asked whether she wanted a \u201cfull\u201d or \u201cpartial\u201d hysterectomy.<\/p>\n

If she chose the second option, he warned, there would be no guarantee that she wouldn\u2019t be back for another operation in two years. So Dr. Alexander agreed to a \u201cfull\u201d hysterectomy.<\/p>\n

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Stacia Alexander was 25 and pregnant when her OB-GYN first recommended a hysterectomy. It was 1996, and an ultrasound had revealed fibroids growing in the walls of her uterus.But she knew what the procedure had done to her mother: After her ovaries and uterus were removed in her 40s, her mother faded into a sad, irritable shadow of herself.So after giving birth, Dr. Alexander opted for surgery to prune back the fibroids. Years later, when the growths returned, she was again able to avoid a hysterectomy by choosing a uterine ablation, in which the lining of the uterus is burned away to prevent bleeding caused by fibroids.But by the time she was 45, the fibroids were back, and her doctor informed her that she was \u201ctoo old\u201d for another uterus-sparing surgery.Dr. Alexander, a psychotherapist in Dallas, was already on the operating table when a surgeon came in and asked whether she wanted a \u201cfull\u201d or \u201cpartial\u201d hysterectomy.If she chose the second option, he warned, there would be no guarantee that she wouldn\u2019t be back for another operation in two years. So Dr. Alexander agreed to a \u201cfull\u201d hysterectomy.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17587,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17588,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions\/17588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}