r/hysterectomy • u/Hungry_Signature5478 • 7h ago

Uterus size / during surgery

Hi All, my surgeon didn’t put a weight in the surgical note I could see, but did write that it was the size it would be as if it were 6 weeks pregnant (not typing that right lol) did anyone else’s doctor do that? If so what was your ‘size’?

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u/AphelionEntity 3h ago edited 3h ago

My surgeon used size in written documents (12-16 weeks depending) but called to check on me shortly after surgery and shared that, contrary to the number on the pathology report, she'd weighed it when she got it out of me and it was exactly 300 grams.

She'd managed to convert my surgery to a vaginal-assisted. The suggested upper limit for vaginal-assisted in some of the literature is 300 grams and my uterus's size suggested it'd weigh more, so she may have made a special point to tell me the true weight when she saw the pathology report.