When to have your ovaries removed
I saw my oncologist today. She is pressuring me to have my ovaries removed. I have the bracken 2 gene. I agree but....I have just finished a year of treatment. I may be going on to a trial with Peter ...
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I'm with @Zoffiel - I had both ovaries and fallopian tubes removed about a month ago (3 weeks before my DIEP Reconstruction). It was called a bilateral salpingo, oopherectomy, D&C and polypectomy! Kept my uterus....
It was a day procedure, done laparoscopically (as described above) and I was fine within a week. I was up and walking around within a couple of hours.
I also got an album of very unusual photos of my insides from the surgeon! She took my statement that "I like to stay as informed as I can" to the limit :)
Funnily enough, I didn't get the sore shoulder - just felt like I'd been literally kicked in the guts while doing 1000 sit-ups! I had lots of bruising but it subsided within 2 weeks. TBH today I don't feel any different than I have whilst being on Tamoxifen.....so it's not been a big deal for me physically.
(Whilst I don't have the gene, I had to have one ovary and tube removed anyway because of a hydrosalpinx - a strange fluid build up. The gynaecologist was brilliant but urged me to think about having both sides removed because of the link between ovaries and BC and the fact that I could then take that cancer off the list of worries. It also meant that I don't have to check that ovary each year from now on. Seeing as my days of having kids are over, I agreed.)
Nikki
It was a day procedure, done laparoscopically (as described above) and I was fine within a week. I was up and walking around within a couple of hours.
I also got an album of very unusual photos of my insides from the surgeon! She took my statement that "I like to stay as informed as I can" to the limit :)
Funnily enough, I didn't get the sore shoulder - just felt like I'd been literally kicked in the guts while doing 1000 sit-ups! I had lots of bruising but it subsided within 2 weeks. TBH today I don't feel any different than I have whilst being on Tamoxifen.....so it's not been a big deal for me physically.
(Whilst I don't have the gene, I had to have one ovary and tube removed anyway because of a hydrosalpinx - a strange fluid build up. The gynaecologist was brilliant but urged me to think about having both sides removed because of the link between ovaries and BC and the fact that I could then take that cancer off the list of worries. It also meant that I don't have to check that ovary each year from now on. Seeing as my days of having kids are over, I agreed.)
Nikki