my journey through breast cancer treatment » 11. Oopherectomy http://myjourneythroughbreastcancertreatment.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:01:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Finally had my Oopherectomy – hello hot flashes! http://myjourneythroughbreastcancertreatment.com/finally-had-my-oopherectomy-%e2%80%93-hello-hot-flashes/ http://myjourneythroughbreastcancertreatment.com/finally-had-my-oopherectomy-%e2%80%93-hello-hot-flashes/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:37:06 +0000 Lily Rose http://myjourneythroughbreastcancertreatment.com/?p=40 hotflashes_smallSeptember 2009:  Finally had my oopherectomy.  My ovaries and tubes are gone.  My risk of getting ovarian cancer now is greatly decreased.  The surgery and recovery were a piece of cake compared to my mastectomy surgery.  This surgery was laparoscopic and outpatient.  I arrived at the hospital at 5:45 am and I was home by 3:00 pm.  No nausea from the anesthesia.  All went smoothly and only a couple small pieces of surgical tape on my belly from the tiny incisions, which he made right on the scar from my TRAM reconstruction surgery.  Not that I care anymore about scars, I have so many now!

Hello menopause!  The only side effect I’ve been feeling since the surgery is an increase in quantity and severity of hot flashes.  Since I started chemotherapy I had been having hot flashes (chemo can sometimes send you into menopause, or as some call it, “chemopause”, but it can be temporary) and I kind of started getting used to them, but they had been getting less and less frequent.

The hot flashes that I experience now are worse – hotter and longer lasting.  Pretty annoying, but not impossible to live with.  Hopefully they will eventually go away.

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