Hysterectomy Toolbox

Thinking about a hysterectomy? Preparing for one? Recovering? Your best tool throughout the process is knowledge.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Table of contents by topic

General information

  • Hysterectomy terms and abbreviations
  • How do they do that?
  • For the guys and the women who live with them: hysterectomies, sexuality and old wives' tales
  • Time has passed; has anything changed?

Pre-op concerns and decisions

  • Questions for your pre-op appointment
  • Preop concerns
  • Pre-op decisions: Keep my cervix or not?
  • Pre-op decisions: Keeping your cervix, revisited
  • Pre-op: Packing list
  • Is a hysterectomy like a C-section?
  • Bladder suspension
  • Pre-op decision: Surgical route
  • Pre-op: Fear
  • Pre-op: What if I am getting sick right before surgery?
  • Pre-op: Planning for medications we'll be receiving
  • Hysterectomy or cancer: Are you sure?
  • Pre-op: Revisiting the question of keeping healthy ovaries
  • Pre-op: The hospital pre-op appointment
  • Psychological Aspects of Pelvic Surgery

Post-op concerns

  • Healing
  • Post-op: Home alone
  • Ovarian failure following hysterectomy
  • Post-op: Should I call my doctor?
  • Post-op: Walking and the prevention of surgical complications
  • Post-op: Bladder matters
  • Post-op: Pain
  • Post-op: Sleep
  • Bowel activity: gas and constipation
  • Will I be in menopause?
  • FDA warning on naproxen; update
  • Operative uncertainties: Why did I come out of the OR with a different diagnosis?
  • Post-op: Getting back into shape

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