My His-tirectomy

I’m going in the hospital to have my hysterectomy tomorrow morning at 6am here in Yucatan, Mexico where I live. The medical care here is amazing and I feel very lucky to have such great doctors, and medical care that I can afford. I do not have insurance and it would have been a big bummer to have to deal with this in the USA, not only the financial part, but also I feel like the doctors here care a bit more and have respect for my body.

So many people have been asking me why I am finally getting this operation, and why I haven’t already had it.

Well I never felt like I needed to do this. The chest surgery was way more important for me. I never felt like my uterus and ovaries made me feel less of a man. I never saw them, and the testosterone shut them down. Also my doctors in the USA said that unless something was wrong, I did not need to remove it. I had regular check ups and they never saw any reason for me to get this surgery.

Until I got an infection in my uterus! What happened was that the use of the testosterone over 15 years started to make my cervix and uterus atrophy. The cervix basically closed and so anything inside my uterus could not get out. Who knows how long this was going on for, but one day I just got so sick that I had to be rushed to the emergency room. They had no idea what was wrong and did exploratory laparascopic surgery. They did an emergency appendectomy and they saw the infection in my fallopian tube and uterus and found that my cervix fused closed. I was really, really sick and spent 4 nights in the hospital. I needed tons of antibiotics to get over the infection.

They said I would have to now have a hysterectomy because now that I have had that infection it will always have the ability to come back.

So here I am now going into surgery because of the fact that the doctors basically had no idea what long term use of testosterone does to the reproductive system! DUH!! But I listened to my doctors. Well, that is why I am documenting this procedure for the benefit of others. So they do not have to go through this horrible experience as well.

I always said that there was no reason to get a hysterectomy. Well now I am saying something different. I don’t think you need to do it right away, but if you plan on staying on testosterone longer than 5 years, I would recommend looking into getting this done just to eliminate the chance of this happening to you.

One other thing, they found some lesions on my cervix, so now they have to do a biopsy during the surgery. If the lesions are malignant then they cannot do a laparoscopy to remove the uterus through my Vagina–they would have to do an open procedure.

Thanks to everyone for all the amazing emails of support and love! I will send you a tweet from my bed in recovery!

WOOF!!

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