Many years ago, a hysterectomy was performed on me without m...

04.13.2021

California Mount Shasta

“Many years ago, a hysterectomy was performed on me without m...”

Many years ago, a hysterectomy was performed on me without my permission while I was in the hospital on bedrest waiting for test results of why I was not feeling well. I came in thinking I had the flu and was getting ready to travel. A nurse accidentally mistook me for another patient, ignored that I had an IV and took me off bedrest. As soon as I stood up, I went into a coma, was rushed into surgery leaving me with only a part of one ovary and no possibility of having children. When I reached menopause, I suffered extreme hot flashes and the only thing that has helped was prescribed compounded bioidentical hormones. I tried a couple of times to see what would happen if I stopped taking them and the symptoms came back. I have continued to take them to this day and I'm 74. A month ago I had a bone scan done after several years with the last bone scan showing I had no symptoms of osteoporosis although my mother and grandmother had to take supplements for this. These most recent results showed that there was very little change from my last tests.

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