What are the differences between myotomy, myomectomy and myectomy?
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Myotomy describes a surgical procedure in which muscle is cut.\nMyomectomy refers to the surgical removal of uterine fibroids.\nMyectomy is excision of a portion of muscle.
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womb is the everyday English word,while uterus is the medical term-but they basically mean the same thing.
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Myomectomy\nI have had 2 fibroids removed 5 years ago.\nThe surgery itself is simular to how they do a hysterectomy. The incision will be about 3 to 4 inches across just below your pubic line, bikini cut.\nYou'll be in the hospital for 3 to 4 days. The 1st day after surgery is the worst, but you will be on a demerol drip.\nAfter the IV pain med you will be given percodan or some other strong oral med.\nYou will also have a catheter in for the 1st day. After it is removed going to the bathroom is going to suck. Not only will you feel like you have to pee constantly, but can't your stitches will feel like there ripping out everytime you move.\nYou'll be on a clear liquid diet the first 2 day and gradually be on solid foods by the last day. \nBefore they let you eat real food you have to tell the nurse you farted. Heheee!\nBy the last day they will have you up walking the halls. You WILL need the pain med to do this.\nWhen you go home the pain will not be as severe, but you will notice that certain movements will aggitate the incision.\nDo not try to sit up by using your stomach muscles. Roll on your side and ease up that way. \nAvoid walking up and down steps too.\nThe healing proccess is pretty fast. By the end of the 2cd week you will feel good. The only thing you will be bothered by is the feeling of the stitches pulling when you move certain ways. It won't be painful after the 2cd week.\nTry to walk as much as you can. Take a pain pill before you do at least for the 1st 2 weeks.\nThat will help speed up healing and make the muscles stronger\nUse neosporin or vitamin E on the incision scar. That will help it heal and fade better.\nMake sure you drink lots of water and cranberyy jiuce so that you wont be at risk for any urinary infections.\nOther than that it realy isn't too bad.\nUnfortunately fibroids can come back. I have 2 more that need to be removed again. However, I am 8 months pregnant with my 1st baby. I would not have been able to carry her if I would not have had that surgery.\nGood Luck!
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With todays medical advances hysterectomy should be your last option if you are truly dealing with Uterine Fibroid Tumors.\n\nI would recommend going to http://www.webmd.com to do some research on the different options you have.\n\nThere are a couple things you can consider doing surgically through laproscopic techniques to reduce or remove the fibroids.\nYou will probably need to do an Ultrasound and/or an MRI to help you & your doctor determine the best procedure to consider.\n\nI will say take the wait and see approach for a little bit before deciding to surgically remove them.  If they don't grow quickly  you might never have any need to do anything more than adjust your food & supplement intake.  The should stop growing after menopause since they feed on estrogen.\n\nYou do want to decrease caffeine and chocolates, eat less animal protein and normalize your hormones.\n\nThere is a great book I use for natural therapies and helps.  You might see if you can get your hands on it to do some quick research.  It's called Healthy Healing by Linda Page.  Or go to a good health food store and ask them if they have any information / products that can help.\n\nYOU HAVE LOTS OF CHOICES and should not be afraid of this diagnosis.  You don't have to lose your uterus and can still have babies.\n\nHope this helps\n\nUPDATE:\nThere is another helpful website I'd like to share http://www.mdchoice.com\n\nBaptist Hospital in Miami offers another solution not listed yet.  It is called Uterine Artrery Embolization. (UFE).  They have found there is one artery which supplies the fibroids in the Uterus.  Through a laproscopic procedure they inject very small pellets into this artery to block the blood flow.  When this happens the tumors will shrink and/or die.\n\nOne thing that I've learned is you can remove or have the UFE performed today but if your continue to produce fibroids you will have to deal with this again later.\n\nSo you will have to think about childbirth today and what you think you would want to do in the future when making this decision.
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I have assisted in many operating rooms and have never heard of such a thing. There is 8 uterine ligaments, 4 on each side, but they are not marked....just simply cut so the uterus can freed from the body and removed.
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There are hundreds of them. Some common ones:\n-Appendectomy\n-Hysterectomy\n-Cesarean Section\n-Gastric Bypass\n-Organ Transplants [heart, liver, kidney]\n-Cardiac Surgery\n-Gallbladder Removal\n-Prostatectomy\n-Hip or Knee Implant\n-Brain Surgery
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A fibroid (leiomyoma, in medical terms) is a benign tumor of the smooth muscle of the uterus.\n\nThey can make it difficult to become or stay pregnant if they are large.  They are not cancerous.  Sometimes they can get HUGE and necessitate a hysterectomy, but usually they are small.\n\nYours must be quite small if they are going to remove it by hysteroscope.  The worst you will probably feel is cramping afterward, which is best relieved by drugs like Motrin. (Ask your anesthesiologist for Toradol)\n\nHope that helps!
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Note that endometriosis is specifically the condition where endometrial tissue (the lining of the uterus) is found outside of the uterus.\n\nFibroids are defined as non-malignant tumors of smooth muscle tissue, therefore you could theoretically get them in any smooth muscle tissue in your body.  However, the most common place to get them is in the uterine wall, and getting them there does not imply that you could get them anywhere else.  It is the impact of having them in the uterine wall that causes the problems associated with fibroids.\n\nIf you have the uterus removed, there will be no uterine wall to get fibroids, so a hysterectomy would solve whatever problems they are causing.  However, I would recommend researching other treatments before resorting to that, unless you are close to menopause anyway.
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A myomectomy is the surgery recommended for women who wish to become pregnant after fibroid surgery (as compared to a hysterectomy, for example).  \nPost-myomectomy chances of becoming pregnant are encouraging: 55 percent of women who have myomectomies due to fibroid-related infertility can get pregnant after the operation.
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I had the surgery 6 years ago.  I chose the myomectomy since I was 34 and had not had a child.  The incision is basically the same as a c-section.  With a 6-8 week recovery.  \n\n5 years later more grew and I opted for a total hysterectomy {I also had other medical reasons to remove the ovaries as well}.  There is no one answer that is best.\n\nBut you should know that removing the fibroids this time, it does not mean you will not have to face another operation later. \n\nif you are close to menopause you could wait it out as that tends to make them shrink but nothing short of surgery will get rid of them.
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Both medical and surgical treatment are available.  You can read more about the options you have at http://althysterectomy.org/adenomyosis.htm
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a D&C and a D&E are the same thing.  But, the term D&C is used more often.  It is a way to "clean out" the uterus.  And it does not always have to do with an abortion (whether theraputic abortion or spontaneous).  It can be used to collect tissue for a biopsy or to help stop heavy bleeding.\n\nIntact dilation and extraction (IDX or Intact D&X), is a surgical abortion procedure wherein an intact fetus is removed from the womb via the cervix. The procedure may also be used to remove a deceased fetus, resulting from a miscarriage, that is developed enough to require dilation of the cervix for extraction. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact_dilation_and_extraction\n\nD and C is a procedure to scrape and collect the tissue (endometrium) from inside the uterus. Dilatation ("D") is a widening of the cervix to allow instruments into the uterus. Curettage ("C") is the scraping of the contents of the uterus.\n\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002914.htm
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Depends on you.  If there is no pain or symptomatic issue, and s/he doesn't suspect any malignancy, then likely nothing further will be done.  If you are in pain and/or suffering from other symptoms, i.e., heavy or dysfunctional uterine bleeding, you have a right to demand a diagnosis and subsequent treatment.  Adenomyosis is another major cause of an enlarged uterus next to fibroids, so that's something to consider looking into.  It's up to you and your doc what the next diagnostic step - and any treatment - will be.  Good luck.
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I temporarily worked for a girl while she had a hysterectomy and she was out for 8 weeks. It all depends on the extent of the procedure. Just contact the doctor who did the surgery or the hospital. They should be able to tell you.
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I had fibroid tumors when I was younger.  They didn't bother me until I was about 44.  Then I started having trouble with my periods.  It was my choice to have a hysterectomy.  But that doesn't mean that is the answer for you.  I don't know how old you are, or what your situation is re: childbearing.  I'm sure it is nothing to worry about. Try to relax.
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It depends, If your having a vaginal hysterectomy, it's less risky and you recover faster. Sometimes though, especially if you have adhesions, a vaginal isn't possible, then you have to have an  abdominal hysterectomy which still isn't too bad. The risks are the same for both of these as it is for any surgery including: reaction to anesthesia, bleeding, infection, etc.
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It would depend on the reason for the surgery in the first place, if there is a history of ovarian cancer in your family then it would be a choice you would have to consider to have both removed to avoid the possibility of developing ovarian cancer. However, when having a hysterectomy if one ovary is remaining it will allow your body to produce hormones naturally and will avoid the need for HRT due to menopause. On the flip side, there are several natural herbs that reduce the side effects of menopause and you no longer have to worry about a period. Which is better, i guess that depends again on the reason for your hysterectomy and ooferectomy in the first place.