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Q: Hysterectomy Or Not
asked by: billo111 on September 8th, 2005
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My girl friend is 37 years old and just past the two year mark from beating breast cancer. The doctors have told her she needs to get a complete hysterectomy very soon. She has been genetically tested, and has been told the gene she is currently, carries a 85% risk of oviaran cancer. I cannot convince her too get a second opinion. She is torn between the quality of life and the risk of cancer either breast or uteran. She seems to be focusing so much on the sex and what it will be like for her and i. Too me this isnt important, staying alive is. I understand the whole quality of life thing...But what to do??? Is it really that bad???
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notsosure
replied on November 23rd, 2005
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Re: Hysterectomy Or Not
billo111 wrote:
my girl friend is 37 years old and just past the two year mark from beating breast cancer. The doctors have told her she needs to get a complete hysterectomy very soon. She has been genetically tested, and has been told the gene she is currently, carries a 85% risk of oviaran cancer. I cannot convince her too get a second opinion. She is torn between the quality of life and the risk of cancer either breast or uteran. She seems to be focusing so much on the sex and what it will be like for her and i. Too me this isnt important, staying alive is. I understand the whole quality of life thing...But what to do??? Is it really that bad???
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judirika
replied on November 27th, 2005
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Please have her get a second opinion. I had just the opposite problem. I had one Dr. Saying not to get a hysterectomy. She even did all the tests on me that indicated that I had problems! I was bleeding so much my urologist wanted to send me for a blood transfusion. The second Dr. Urged me to have the hysterectomy because otherwise I was going to wind up dead from the loss of blood. And it wasn't getting better. Each day was getting worse. After the second Dr. Showed me my records from the first Dr., I couldn't believe that the first Dr. Watched me over 2 years go downhill more and more. I thought I was out of shape and other symptoms were from being so anemic from not having enough blood in my system. If it wasn't for my urologist urging me to get a second opinion I would be in the hospital and having to get it done anyway through the emergency room!
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