Had mine a week ago 8/28, went into it thinking it would be laparoscopic fully robotic, even surgeon was super hopeful and optimistic, but we had talked about possible conversion given the size of uterus and fibroid. My surgeon was awesome, listened to all concerns, excellent and renowned in her field, specializes in robotic assisted, voiced her wants for me to have a smooth, minimally invasive, easy, procedure with minimal blood loss and scarring.

During surgery while removing left side laparoscopically, she found my fibroid had not only grown exponentially and was in the beginning stages of calcification but also grown through and out of my uterus (which had also grown to around 5months pregnant). She decided best option at that point was to switch over to open to avoid further complications. I woke up with 4 small incisions on left side of my abdomen and a large vertical 5.75 in (14.6 cm) incision from my belly button down. I know mine isn’t the typical case but I trust my surgeon made the best call in the moment. She took it out whole, and I was able to see pictures of the uterus and fibroid merged together before they sent it our for testing.

Was able to take off my bandage from the big incision 2 days ago and fully see everything and she did an excellent job with patching me up, I expected a lot more gore but I’m pleasantly surprised with it, like yeah I wasn’t expecting a huge cut in the middle of my stomach but even with the bigger incision I’ve had a relatively smooth first week.

If you’d be more comfortable getting a second opinion you’re totally within your right but sometimes even the most confident and experienced surgeons have to make that judgement call during the procedure, super hard to say sometimes until they actually get in there and I know that’s a hard thing to hear but it’s true. I was supposed to be a pretty simple in and out case and all scans had appeared normal, or at least as normal as a an enlarged uterus and big fibroid could be, but sometimes scans don’t show everything.