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Personal Stories - a devastation and just the tip of the iceburg

8/25/2015

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The first crushing part about these is that I found all of these screenshots in just ONE HOUR of searching. If you think they're not out there, just have a look. The second crushing part is that everything these women are describing is just the tip of the iceburg. It is all the women know about the harm done, and they're already miserable. Imagine if they knew that the more serious illnesses appeared 15 years later. It's heartbreaking.

But first, a physician's response to their legitimate concerns about their health and well-being after surgery:

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Now to the real stories:
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Of course, when cancer is upstaged by use of a morcellator, that takes things to yet another level:
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Bizarre attitudes

8/22/2015

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A modern day OBGYN writing to the new president of the ACOG:
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This is one of Scotland's leading OBGYNs saying that women in a postmenopausal state were "unbiological":
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Men debating whether we get to keep our healthy ovaries or not in the 1980s.

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Not caring about our family histories in the 21st century.

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Totally ignoring the fact that we produce androgens which are tied to health and libido.
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Women's libido...the existence of which, even in 2015, the WSJ and psychiatrists will still argue doesn't even exist for women. It's all in our heads. Bizarre...
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Civil liberties - temporary chemical castration of sex offenders vs. permanent surgery performed on the average woman. 

8/22/2015

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Neither patient can provide unbiased consent, so why does the sex offender warrant more debate?
Where the temporary, chemical castration of male sex offenders is the subject of agonizing civil liberties debates, the obviously permanent removal of ovaries in women whose surgeons convinced them of its benefit and their lack of usefulness after menopause is seen as a non-event. We really need to look at what we think of men and women's health, sexuality, needs, peace of mind, integrity...and determine if we don't still have a very long way to go.

A few published excerpts from the news about the sex offender debate:

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Preventative or "Prophylactic" Removal of Testes to Prevent Prostate Cancer

8/22/2015

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Though men have twice the risk of dying of prostate cancer that women have of dying of ovarian cancer, this is never, ever done as a preventative measure before there is evidence of cancer. Let's break it down.

Removing ovaries and testes is the same thing in medicine: castration. They have equivalent functions in the body. This is called being homologous. They are both referred to as gonads.

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As with women, when men are deprived of their gonads and the steroid hormones they create, they get sick and weak.
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Without the testes, tumors wouldn't grow in the prostate.

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This is also called an orchiectomy, and is the "gold standard" for dealing with prostate tumors of androgens can't be suppressed sufficiently and are still feeding the cancer.
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Twice as many men die of prostate cancer each year as women die from ovarian cancer.
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Yet, surgeons are rarely removing testes even when cancer is present, much less preventatively.

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Instead, other avenues are pursued:

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...a fact ACOG physicians are pretty snide about:

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It's so odd that men think elective hysterectomies don't happen...Nope, only 665,000 a year.
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Because how ridiculous would this be...? Except that it's true and he just doesn't know it.
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