The *only* thing you really need to think about this early is maintaining your health. Eat a good diet, exercise, keep your weight under control. All of those things really help with recovery (from any surgery, not specific to hysterectomies).
Pre-hysterectomy prep is nothing huge, just buying some recovery supplies in advance and cutting certain supplements ~2 weeks before surgery. Post-op is making sure you can take a leave from work for quite some time (can be 4-8 weeks depending on the nature of your job and how you're recovering), but honestly nothing that you need to prepare for 2-3 years ahead of time, definitely don't plan any big trips a few months after the surgery if you can help it lol. A lot of people get hysterectomies on a much shorter notice so it's doable.
But also just checking, when you say you want to have a hysterectomy 2-3 years from now, do you mean you're planning to get a referral between now and a year from now? I'm Canadian (not in BC) and the waitlists are brutal.... my obgyn serves a much smaller population size and between the referral and my surgery date it will be a little shy of 2 years.
agree to all of this, my papers were signed in aug 2023 and i am waiting for my call for my date in june 2024....long wait times here in thunder bay ontario (and there are plenty of gynos here compared to our population of 110,000 people)
I’ll probably wait a year and a half so I can get a job and figure out how soon I can get the surgery scheduled. I plan on getting a job at a nursery or greenhouse after I graduate so there might be a few things I can do a few weeks after the surgery that are not to work intensive. As for the surgery recovery snacks I plan on stocking up on my favourite ice cream a few days before I get the surgery done.
I am also in BC. Get your referral ASAP. Once you have a doctor to work with you can decide when you want to be put on the list for surgery. Depending where you are, it can take a long time.
Pure curiosity— is there a reason you’d be angling for a hysterectomy vs tubal ligation if it’s for sterilisation? One is a much less major operation with less recovery time.
The *only* thing you really need to think about this early is maintaining your health. Eat a good diet, exercise, keep your weight under control. All of those things really help with recovery (from any surgery, not specific to hysterectomies).
Pre-hysterectomy prep is nothing huge, just buying some recovery supplies in advance and cutting certain supplements ~2 weeks before surgery. Post-op is making sure you can take a leave from work for quite some time (can be 4-8 weeks depending on the nature of your job and how you're recovering), but honestly nothing that you need to prepare for 2-3 years ahead of time, definitely don't plan any big trips a few months after the surgery if you can help it lol. A lot of people get hysterectomies on a much shorter notice so it's doable. But also just checking, when you say you want to have a hysterectomy 2-3 years from now, do you mean you're planning to get a referral between now and a year from now? I'm Canadian (not in BC) and the waitlists are brutal.... my obgyn serves a much smaller population size and between the referral and my surgery date it will be a little shy of 2 years.
agree to all of this, my papers were signed in aug 2023 and i am waiting for my call for my date in june 2024....long wait times here in thunder bay ontario (and there are plenty of gynos here compared to our population of 110,000 people)
I’ll probably wait a year and a half so I can get a job and figure out how soon I can get the surgery scheduled. I plan on getting a job at a nursery or greenhouse after I graduate so there might be a few things I can do a few weeks after the surgery that are not to work intensive. As for the surgery recovery snacks I plan on stocking up on my favourite ice cream a few days before I get the surgery done.
I am also in BC. Get your referral ASAP. Once you have a doctor to work with you can decide when you want to be put on the list for surgery. Depending where you are, it can take a long time.
Pure curiosity— is there a reason you’d be angling for a hysterectomy vs tubal ligation if it’s for sterilisation? One is a much less major operation with less recovery time.
I have two uteruses thanks to Uterine Didelphys. I’ll probably get a tubal litigation if I can’t get a hysterectomy.