Posted on 07/06/2024 5:01:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In the US, hysterectomy is the second most commonly performed surgery among women after cesarean section; around 1 in 3 will undergo the procedure by the age of 60. But according to a new study, 1 in 5 women in the US may not need to.
Around 68% of hysterectomies for benign conditions are done to treat abnormal uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids and endometriosis.
Rates of hysterectomy in the US are falling, with one study reporting a 36.4% reduction in the number of hysterectomies carried out between 2003 and 2010.
Still, more than 400,000 hysterectomies are carried out in the US every year, and the researchers of this latest study – including Dr. Daniel Morgan of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School – note that concerns about the appropriateness of hysterectomy remain.
For their study – published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology – Dr. Morgan and colleagues set out to analyze the use of such alternative treatments prior to a hysterectomy among women with benign conditions, and whether the pathology following a hysterectomy supported the need for the surgery…
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalnewstoday.com ...
But always profitable.
I had a hysterectomy that I did not need. Yes, I had a mass on my ovary. I could have had just my ovaries removed had the endocrinology department done a better job of differential diagnosis. I am still hacked off about the whole thing. My adrenal glands are the problem.
The only way I can reconcile what happened is to think I might have eventually developed cancer since it does run in my family.
IF Endocrinology had done their job I ponder would I have had a radical hysterectomy knowing I did have a mass, a relative died of ovarian cancer, and I had blood work that indicated there was a problem. The answer is I would have only had my ovaries removed.
I contend that more than one in five hysterectomies are unnecessary. It’s probably closer to 2 out of 3. It’s a man’s mechanical procedure applied to a woman’s body. They figure the cervix is bad so they take out the uterus. While they are in there, they might as well take out the fallopian tubes. And might as well take out the ovaries. I believe that the removal of ovaries is way too common and I also suspect that it is why there are so many “butch” women out there. I don’t have any evidence other than a supposition but I doubt that there is much research on this subject. Pretty much I don’t think doctors want the public to do research into their practices. It’s practically superstitious the way they are so destructive of women’s anatomy. Ovaries make hormones as well as eggs just like testes make hormones as well as sperms. I believe that oophorectomies are to women what castrations are to men. There is no outside evidence that the ovaries are missing unlike dudes who would notice every waking second of their lives.
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Still, more than 400,000 hysterectomies are carried out in the US every year, and the researchers of this latest study – including Dr. Daniel Morgan of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School – note that concerns about the appropriateness of hysterectomy remain
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But always profitable.
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Many doctors are like commission salesmen.
If they don’t cut, they don’t get paid
I had a hysterectomy when I was only 28, due to second degree uterine prolapse. I got to keep my ovaries, though. Thankfully, I’d already had my two children, but I was pretty sad for awhile that we’d never be able to have more.
Gee, ya don't say.
Having a hysterectomy (at age 45) ranks number five on my list of top five best things that ever happened to me.
I was 27 when I had mine. I was having two to ten month-long menstrual cycles and losing up to a liter of blood daily. I’d had previous ablation which healed, and thus failed, and the GYN refused to do it a second time, then refused the hysterectomy. I was having blood transfusions, FFS; bad for transplant patients. I had the hysterectomy through another GYN who looked at my history and had a moment of, “WTF was your previous doctor thinking?”
I’d had a previous tubal ligation to prevent pregnancy, as due to my health issues it’s safer that I don’t conceive. I didn’t want to ever make the decision of my life or my child’s, which is what it would have been reduced to. I was always careful, two forms of protection and whatnot, but I didn’t want to risk it.
Sometimes I’m sad I’ll never have kids... I’ll be 37 this year. I know it’s for the best, though. My health is sh¡t due to issues I was born with, and my husband isn’t doing too well either; he’s two years older. I can’t risk passing this on to kids, either.
It’s horrible. And yet barely a peep from so-called feminists — in medicine or otherwise — to rectify this horrible stat.
It irks me how hyper-specialization has fragmented medicine, and our approach to treating the body in general. We are integrated, interconnected wholes— *especially* the female body. Gynos and Endocrinologists should be much more collaborative and cooperative in their approach to patient care.
Angelina Jolie’s mother, aunt, and maternal grandmother all died very young from ovarian and breast cancer. She famously had a preventative mastectomy and radical hysterectomy due to carrying the brca gene. It’s quite the decision to make but I can’t imagine the grief and pain she’s experienced and would want to spare her children by any means necessary with whatever tools she feels is at her disposal.
Quite sinister indeed. And again, what of feminism?
Oh wow. Glad to hear! Well clearly there are occasions where it must be life saving. But yes what’s alarming is that so many women are made to feel there are no alternative options even while still in childbearing years.
Oh my! And although I think it’s bad that birth control has swallowed up the focus of modern gynecology (at the expense of funding things like endometriosis research!) — I do not want to dismiss the very real benefits hormonal intervention and regulation can afford many women via the pill etc…And again, the study says it’s not that 100% of hysterectomies that are unnecessary, but many.
My husband isn’t doing too well either…
Prayers that both of you be restored to fullness of health in body and mind!
There are women and men who have infertility issues even with all their reproductive organs and youth in tow — so the question (if you are a person of faith) then becomes if God is calling you to have children; but in some other way? Adopting a child, etc…I mean even couples with biological children may feel called to adopt.
As the article states, hysterectomies used to be much more common. Like tonsillectomies.
There’s a good historical graph about halfway through this article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723888/
I appreciate it. Thank you.
There is no adoption agency that would look at my health and our financial situation and say, “Yeah, sure, we’ll adopt a kid out to you!” We wouldn’t qualify to foster either, as we’re living with my mom and my brother. I do have nieces and nephews though, on my husband’s side. I dote, but the cost of living is causing them to move further and further away. We ourselves are stuck, too.
I did terribly on hormones, and it was all my GYN wanted to do, so I had to fight for the tubal and the ablation for about a year. I was clotting the dialysis machines, so taking hormones was out of the question in my twenties. I did ultimately have a stroke (I honestly didn’t know until I’d wound up in the ER for something else) in the last two years. In my teens, they altered my mood, blood pressure, and to be honest didn’t control the bleeding. I have a feeling all of that had to do with my underlying health issues.
Just not in the cards for me. My husband didn’t want kids anyway, and his health issues are also genetic. He has asthma and a nasty potassium deficiency that’s paralyzed him (and his brother) and landed him in the hospital more than once, and he’s put on some weight in recent years. His blood pressure is remarkably stable, however.
Thank you for sharing the article, which zones in on the topic of cervical cancer treatment and prevention as well. Worth noting that the Gardasil anti-HPV vaccine is particularly notorious for adverse effects, lawsuits — and controversially administered to and required of young girls esp in certain states.
There is a saying that goes, “God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.” Whether you adopt or not, I pray for the restoration of peace, order, health, and abundance in you and your husband’s situation!!!
The medical world has evolved the nature of its scams, and that is one of the most outwardly ridiculous of its current rackets.
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