Re: Horror at an old style medical practice for women

[Guest guest]

This is one of my personal issues with the medical establishment.

First of all, the term hysterectomy comes from the word hysteria, and

was performed on women for all sorts of reasons, (usually " mental "

illness) rarely for the reasons of gangrene. What infuriates me the

most about the practice is they continue to be the 'cure' for all

sorts of reasons that there may be other ways of dealing with. They

tried to take my uterus out after a diagnosis of endometriosis 6 years

ago, and I refused, sought alternative methods and have been endo free

for 4 years now.

sorry for the tangent, but as long as we accept hysterectomies as the

only option, the medical profession won't bother to look for anything

else.

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~ Hel ~

If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a

horrible warning.

[Guest guest]

Hel, you're right, many don't bother looking for the source of the problem.. just relieve what is currently going on.. not what started it.Helgardh@... wrote:

This is one of my personal issues with the medical establishment.First of all, the term hysterectomy comes from the word hysteria, andwas performed on women for all sorts of reasons, (usually "mental"illness) rarely for the reasons of gangrene. What infuriates me themost about the practice is they continue to be the 'cure' for allsorts of reasons that there may be other ways of dealing with. Theytried to take my uterus out after a diagnosis of endometriosis 6 yearsago, and I refused, sought alternative methods and have been endo freefor 4 years now.sorry for the tangent, but as long as we accept hysterectomies as theonly option, the medical profession won't bother to look for anythingelse.

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[Guest guest]

I believe that hysterectomies are up there at the top of the list of

needless surgeries,right up there with c-sections and radical

mastectomies.

Yup....their are herbs for all various prolapses.

Kit

> Got told about a device MD's use to use before hystorectomies to

> help women with prolapse of the uterus. Been seeing that term in the

> herb books but ignorant of what the problem was. As was explained to

> me after having 30 kids the uterus would sometimes want to slip out.

> To stop this, some idiot invented a tubelike device called a prissin

> or prussin, something like that, that would fit up the vagina and stay

> in there as a mechanical support for the uterus. Of course it wasn't

> always fitted properly and sometimes some side effects would occur

> such as gangarene. The old medical books would talk about the

> importance of not deflowering the female organs blah, blah, blah. I

> was horrified at the sound of it, ignorant barbarians was my unspoken

> thought, and no wonder people accepted hysterectomies when they were

> invented. Part of the horror I felt was there are herbal treatments

> for that and have been all along. It is saddening to think how much

> useless suffering women were subjected to due to ignorance. That also

> gets me wondering how many hysterectomies are given that could be

> avoided herbally. Not my department though.