Wow, you sound so much like me. My total hysterectomy was done 10/2012. First 5 lbs started to creep up on me about 6 months later. Then more, and more--it is up to 25 and showing no signs of stopping. I love(d) exercising and sometimes would do 1700 reps on a cardioglide 3x a week; 55 minutes on treadmill. Now I can't do hardly anything. Like you, the energy is gone. It wasn't the cancer (it was way too tiny to have done anything). I had a great deal of energy before the surgery. My muscles are very weak, knees are killing me from the extra weight. Boobs, which were slowly but surely decreasing in size (a big thing to me in many ways) now have ballooned back up 2 sizes bigger.
The cancer was .03 of a centimeter and encapsulated in a polyp. Only symptoms were occasional light spotting. I never had any pain in that area whatsoever but now years later I am in tremendous pain every hour of every day.
They refused to give me any hormones post surgery because of the "estrogen receptors" that can cause cancer. So now I have to worry about heart disease (gallops through my family), osteoporosis, developed varicose veins in my legs, and so on and so on.
I have aged at least 10 years. That wonderful high from exercising is now just a thing of the past. Ditto horseback riding, which I used to love. That jelly roll is sitting on my upper legs as I write this. Have to move it aside to perform proper bathroom hygiene.
Knowing what I do now, I would have refused the surgery. Oh yes, add to this the growth of numerous very painful lipomas (sp) on my upper thighs and back of my lower legs, pressing on my ribs and stomach.
My underwear doesn't even know how to fit me now since this shape does not belong to humans. For a spot of cancer (I am going to have the pathology reports gone over) which could have been cut out, frozen or anything else but taking out everything I now dread waking up every morning and remembering who I used to be.
What about quality of life? Do these butchers EVER think of that? What is worse, this was done to me by a female surgeon. That really galls me. I am a fat, depressed, castrated person who has lost so much of my life. So glad I found this site or I might have gone mad. All my best to everyone who has been negatively impacted by this butchery.
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Wow, you sound so much like me. My total hysterectomy was done 10/2012. First 5 lbs started to creep up on me about 6 months later. Then more, and more--it is up to 25 and showing no signs of stopping. I love(d) exercising and sometimes would do 1700 reps on a cardioglide 3x a week; 55 minutes on treadmill. Now I can't do hardly anything. Like you, the energy is gone. It wasn't the cancer (it was way too tiny to have done anything). I had a great deal of energy before the surgery. My muscles are very weak, knees are killing me from the extra weight. Boobs, which were slowly but surely decreasing in size (a big thing to me in many ways) now have ballooned back up 2 sizes bigger.
The cancer was .03 of a centimeter and encapsulated in a polyp. Only symptoms were occasional light spotting. I never had any pain in that area whatsoever but now years later I am in tremendous pain every hour of every day.
They refused to give me any hormones post surgery because of the "estrogen receptors" that can cause cancer. So now I have to worry about heart disease (gallops through my family), osteoporosis, developed varicose veins in my legs, and so on and so on.
I have aged at least 10 years. That wonderful high from exercising is now just a thing of the past. Ditto horseback riding, which I used to love. That jelly roll is sitting on my upper legs as I write this. Have to move it aside to perform proper bathroom hygiene.
Knowing what I do now, I would have refused the surgery. Oh yes, add to this the growth of numerous very painful lipomas (sp) on my upper thighs and back of my lower legs, pressing on my ribs and stomach.
My underwear doesn't even know how to fit me now since this shape does not belong to humans. For a spot of cancer (I am going to have the pathology reports gone over) which could have been cut out, frozen or anything else but taking out everything I now dread waking up every morning and remembering who I used to be.
What about quality of life? Do these butchers EVER think of that? What is worse, this was done to me by a female surgeon. That really galls me. I am a fat, depressed, castrated person who has lost so much of my life. So glad I found this site or I might have gone mad. All my best to everyone who has been negatively impacted by this butchery.
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