God, I know. I was on a long-haul flight a couple months ago and was shamed by the flight attendants for having to go to the bathroom when they had the seatbelt light on. Sorry, guys, you left it on for like 3 hours. Unless you want blood all over your seats or me changing my tampon and pad in the aisle, I'm going…

I'm actually having a myomectomy, not a hysterectomy. My fibroid (and I think it's one giant fibroid) will be removed, and hopefully my uterus will be stitched together to be strong enough to work as a uterus. I have not yet had children and would like to.

I don't want a hysterectomy, which I think is the problem. In her case, they likely removed the uterus vaginally after cutting it up through laprascopic incisions, maybe? I can't find any information on microscopic hysterectomy online to see if that's what happens, but I do know my fibroid is larger than an incision…

There isn't another minimally invasive way to remove certain large uterine tumors in women who wish to keep their uterus. Should have said that. In my case, with the failure of my D&C, my options are laprascopic using morcellation or open abdominal surgery.

I will be undergoing morcellation in a few days.

It's 5 years if you have a risk factor for tetanus (like stepping on sharp rusty things or getting scratched by cats). 10 years otherwise. Or so I've been told.

It's kind of like a combination of susceptibility and a trigger. Susceptibility is usually genetic, but most people who are genetically susceptible won't ever get a clot. You need a trigger as well, which can be a flight or hormonal birth control or recovery from surgery or something else.

I'm also 31 and got diagnosed with one last weekend. My doctor said that one DVT, with a well-understood cause (in my case a flight, in your case I suspect they will say the birth control) isn't really a permanent problem. You and I will just have to be more careful at high-risk times.

Yeah, I mean, I need something to make my periods lighter, so that may have been what he was thinking. We'd been hoping that the pill would do that, and now it is no longer an option for me (sadly for now, neither is Mirena due to a fibroid). I think I'm being a bit too sensitive and he probably could have been a…

Thanks for the advice. As it turns out, I can't be on Mirena because of a fibroid, and copper is definitely not an option for me. I'm already doubling up with tampons and pads and changing the tampons every hour for two days a month. I think my doc is going to try to scrape down some of the fibroid so maybe then…

I ended up spending last Friday in the ER with a deep vein thrombosis. I had to stop the hormonal birth control that I had just started (started so soon that it couldn't have even caused the clot). My boyfriend has been generally very supportive.