27-04-2018, 08:35 PM
Hi Katie,
I have been meaning to reply to your post about HRT and surgery.
I can understand your concern stopping your HRT before your surgery, I also highly recommend you follow your surgeons and gender doctors recommendations, 6 weeks prior to surgery does seem like a long time from what I can see from most surgeons practice in the US anything over 4 weeks seems extreme, often 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks post surgery.
I have had both hips replaced with total hip replacement surgery which I had amazing minimally invasive surgery which I recovered from very quickly, but it was still a 4-6 hour procedure to get into my hip joints and remove the old bone and joint and install titanium/ceramic/polyurethane prosthetic and put it all back together again. In addition to stopping HRT, my surgeon also had me stop aspirin, ibuprofen products, vitamin E and herbal supplements. That was not because of clotting risk, but bleeding risk or lack of clotting with the surgery with NSAIDs having blood thinning properties. I am sure your surgeon will probably put you on some anti-clotting meds after the surgery at least until you are able to be mobile again so that you no longer have a clotting risk.
So I stopped any HRT myself before and after the surgery, stopping the Ibuprofen was harder for me since my cartilage had completely worn away and my hips were bone on bone which for me deteriorated exponentially fast once they wore out. I had my left hip replaced in May 2014 and right hip replaced December 2016.
I recommend discussing any questions/concerns you have with your doctors and how to deal with the expected side affects from stopping HRT cold turkey, perhaps you could do a gradual reduction over the 6 week period to allow your body to adjust more gradually.
Darlene
I have been meaning to reply to your post about HRT and surgery.
I can understand your concern stopping your HRT before your surgery, I also highly recommend you follow your surgeons and gender doctors recommendations, 6 weeks prior to surgery does seem like a long time from what I can see from most surgeons practice in the US anything over 4 weeks seems extreme, often 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks post surgery.
I have had both hips replaced with total hip replacement surgery which I had amazing minimally invasive surgery which I recovered from very quickly, but it was still a 4-6 hour procedure to get into my hip joints and remove the old bone and joint and install titanium/ceramic/polyurethane prosthetic and put it all back together again. In addition to stopping HRT, my surgeon also had me stop aspirin, ibuprofen products, vitamin E and herbal supplements. That was not because of clotting risk, but bleeding risk or lack of clotting with the surgery with NSAIDs having blood thinning properties. I am sure your surgeon will probably put you on some anti-clotting meds after the surgery at least until you are able to be mobile again so that you no longer have a clotting risk.
So I stopped any HRT myself before and after the surgery, stopping the Ibuprofen was harder for me since my cartilage had completely worn away and my hips were bone on bone which for me deteriorated exponentially fast once they wore out. I had my left hip replaced in May 2014 and right hip replaced December 2016.
I recommend discussing any questions/concerns you have with your doctors and how to deal with the expected side affects from stopping HRT cold turkey, perhaps you could do a gradual reduction over the 6 week period to allow your body to adjust more gradually.
Darlene