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Hysterectomy and diabetes

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jjankh

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Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
Hi All
My 1st post to this forum. I am due to have a hysterectomy due to an ovarian cyst, so going to remove everything via open surgery. I am extremely anxious about this and having this major operation, very fearful of complications or infections.

Just wanted some advice more so. Trying my best to stay focussed, whilst waiting on NHS to admit me.

Regards
 
Hi @jjankh
Not something I have experienced so this is general advice. Get your blood sugars as much under control as you can beforehand to maximise healing and minimise infection risk.
Afterwards expect hormones or lack of them to potentially influence sugar levels.
Others with experience will likely be along soon. How all goes well.
 
Hi @jjankh since being diagnosed Type 2 I have had two surgeries, not a hysterectomy but orthopaedic surgery on my feet. I worked hard to get my HbA1c to non diabetic levels and healed well without complications. My levels raised post op with the pain etc.. I didn’t have the hormonal element of course, but my levels settled back to normal in around ten days. One warning, hospital menus are notoriously bad for Type 2s if you eat low carbs, so take in plenty of low carb snacks!
 
Hi there, hope all is going well if you’ve already had your surgery. My story is quite positive, if it helps? I have had the same surgery as you, but was diagnosed T2 a few years later to can’t help with the healing aspect. However, hormones I know about. I’m on HRT because the hot flushes were debilitating. Importantly, the menopause doesn’t seem to affect my BGL at present. I’m LCHF and not on medications. I try to exercise regularly and drink lots of water. Don’t smoke, don’t drink (much) and find things are mostly okay. I’m sure it will be okay for you too, but be kind to yourself and accept that in the short term BG levels may be tricky but will probably settle just fine. I hope you’re doing ok. Chat with people on here, and lots of medical professionals to keep yourself up and focused on your success after this major surgery. Take care.
 
jjankh said:
Hi All
My 1st post to this forum. I am due to have a hysterectomy due to an ovarian cyst, so going to remove everything via open surgery. I am extremely anxious about this and having this major operation, very fearful of complications or infections.

Just wanted some advice more so. Trying my best to stay focussed, whilst waiting on NHS to admit me.

Regards
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Hi Jankh, there is information about how to cope with diabetes when you’re having a hysterectomy on the NHS website under hysterectomy operations.
 
suehumble said:
Hi Jankh, there is information about how to cope with diabetes when you’re having a hysterectomy on the NHS website under hysterectomy operations.
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Hi Sue - My (sub-total, so not quite the same op as you, although it was open surgery) hysterectomy was before my T2 was diagnosed, so I have no wisdom to share, relating to your specific query.

One very helpful thing I was told at the time was that for the first two weeks not to lift anything heavier than a kettle. Nothing. Not even a little bit, for a little while.

I was 3.5 days in hospital, including the day of the op, so almost a week there, and the rest was fine. In hospital, on the "self-service" pain relief, I just kept that well topped up, so that I slept a lot. My rationale was if I was asleep, I couldn't be uncomfortable. :)

When I got home from hospital, I only had one dose of oral painkillers, almost to please my mother, as I just wasn't in pain (which she could not get her head around). Thereafter I had nothing, although I was very careful, and from the first day home, I was out walking, albeit initially short distances, every day.

Before I went in, I prepped well, to have plenty food in the house and freezers, so I could always fish something out to eat. My Mum was still around then, and insisted I should be looked after, but I sort of sent her home after about a week, as I was so well. If I needed shopping, the nice man from Sainsbury's would bring it into my kitchen and unpack it for me, so that I was putting away single items, not moving bags, or anything heavy. I just explained I'd had an op and couldn't life weights. They were happy to help.

To be honest, if your cyst has been giving you bother, if you're like me, you'll just be glad to have the whole thing over with.

To be fair, I kept my ovaries, so that I wouldn't need HRT, so I can't comment on that.

Good luck with it all. Try to look on it as the closing of the chapter of living with a troublesome cyst. Given that window of time whilst it's dealt with, I'm sure it'll be worth it.

Fingers crossed for you.
 
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