Biking after Hysterectomy

[DDH]

I haven't had one, but I did want to come on here and say good luck to you and please take it easy. Surgery is a major thing and you need to take it easy and do as the doctor says when it is all over.

My sister had one and she recovered very quickly was back to work after 6 weeks. She did complain of the numbness and a few other weird kind of things so I would definitely ask about them.

Good luck to you.

[Bicyclette]

I have no advice for you - I just wanted to wish you luck with your surgery. Hope you're back in the saddle soon

[mlove]

Mine is scheduled for late January. The doctor told me not to drive or pick up anything over 10 pounds for 6 weeks and to climb stairs just once a day for a while. Mine will also be abdominal and I am hoping that I will be more or less ok by the time our club starts riding again in April. Most women that I have talked to tell me six weeks is about right but one woman at our gym, who had a vaginal, was back doing light exercise in a week and seems fully recovered after six.

Good luck and keep us posted.

[velogirl]

Vaginal is the way to go if you have a competent surgeon and no other risk factors. Of course, this depends on "why" you're having a hysterectomy. When I had mine, it was for fybroids from hell. I'd had them removed several other times over a period of about six years. In the year prior to my hysto, I bled heavily (hemmoraging) for nine and a half months straight. Life sucked!

In 1996, the internet just became part of my life. I was scheduled for a laproscopic hysto and did a little research and scared myself to death. All I could find info on was gall bladder procedures and there were many reports of deaths and complications. Apparently, early in laproscopy, the docs were trained by the medical device companies.

So, I changed my mind and had the abdominal incision instead. It was a good decision. I had more than 20 fybroids, the largest was the size of a grapefruit. They were inside my uterus, growing through the uterine wall. And a bunch of them were on stalks. One wrapped around my bladder and another went down into my intestines. My doc said if she'd done the laproscopic procedure she wouldn't have known that (they didn't show up on any of my pre-surgical scans) and I could have died.

My sister had a laproscopic procedure six months after my surgery and her recovery was super-quick. In less than two weeks she was able to resume all her normal activities.

Now, the big question I had was about intercourse. I'd read mixed reviews about whether or not women lost their sex drive and/or sensation and/or the ability to orgasm post-surgery. I'm happy to report that none of that happened to me. Actually, my sex life improved because I was no longer sick and bleeding all the time.