Lupron shots...anyone else?

Lafalum84
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:43:38 +0000

I had a Lupron shot about a month before my hysterectomy, to reduce the blood loss during surgery. I didn’t have any negative side effects. Some people get hot flashes but I had no problems.

I didn’t have endo but I had something called adenomyosis - it’s where the endometrial tissue actually works its way into the muscle of the uterine wall (they think it is more common in women who’ve had c-sections, and I had 2 of them). So when I’d get my period, it wasn’t just a lining sloughing off - it was actually the muscle tissue itself hemoraghing. It hurt like he**, and I bled a ton because the uterine muscle was too swollen with endometrial tissue to clamp down properly on the blood vessels and cut off the flow of blood. Can’t be fixed via oblation, the only thing that helped was birth control pills - but when I turned 40 my doctor wouldn’t prescribe them for me any more for fear of blood clots or stroke.

I had a hysterectomy at 41 and it was the absolute best thing I ever did for myself. I have more energy and a lot less PMS. They left my ovaries in place, but I will probably have them out when I turn 50 because both my mom and a paternal aunt died of ovarian cancer in their 70s (I had a BRCA test, it was negative).