I asked because her question is “At what point is a hysterectomy allowed by the Church?” I assume she is talking to doctors. I was curious if she’s talked this over with her priest. Our priest here is super helpful and has learned a lot from our NFP folks. He helps get parishioners in touch with medical professionals and NFP providers.
). If I used the BC pill for symptom relief then the priest said I’d have to practice total abstinence since the pill can be an abortifacient. Heck my body with the Endometreosis is a natural abortifacient, so maybe I should abstain for that reason too. I am happy that there is NaproTechnology and that it can help a lot of people…but it’s not the salvation of the medical field as it’s made out to be. It’s aggrivating that it is so pushed on you, but no one tells you what to do if it too fails (cause it’s not supposed to fail.)Absolutely, and I’m quite disgusted that he thinks you should go through painful and debilitating surgery every other year until you hit menopause. That is not Catholic teaching.
Again, these people aren’t qualified.Thank you all!
The Napro doctor (Catholic) won’t give me the BC pill for any reason, neither the hysterectomy for a non-lifethreatening illness. So both options I would have to seek out secular help.
That’s really lousy, especially the part about no hysterectomy except for life-threatening issues.
The priest suggest the Napro doctor (because supposedly they can cure everything without BC pills.
**Your priest is mistaken about how the ethics on BC pill for medical treatment work, but a lot of faithful people are. It’s worse in a priest, though.
It sounds like you’ve gotten a lot of poor Catholic advice. I’m sorry about that.**
How the BC pill came up in conversation was I was asking a couple of friends if I was allowed to take it for a time to reduce painful cysts. These same friends also were the ones who told me after my miscarriage and subsequent D&C, horror stories of D&Cs killing babies who were still alive and how they would never have one and yadda yadda. My friend list is quite small right now. I’m the parish freak as it is with all my mental and physical health issues.
Yes!
That is a very good point.
I don’t believe the Church allows or not allows hysterectomies. They leave that issue to medical professionals. Go see a OB/GYN for treatment. No doctor will do a hysterectomy without a valid medical need. You can’t get a hysterectomy just to prevent conception, at least from a doc with good medical ethics. I wouldn’t even do the next Napro surgery.
Just be careful about this (text in bold), it cannot have any weight on your decision. If this was not part of the equation, would the hysterectomy still be the best medical choice, knowing there is a negative unintended side effect of sterility? This is what you need to pray about informed by a medical doctor and with the help of a priest for discernment. (Did your NaPro doctor say that you would be having surgeries every two years, or does your doctor really and truly believe this could be the last surgery? No need to answer here, just something to think about)Thanks everyone. I’m definitely not seeking medical advice. I have a Napro doctor who wants me to have another surgery, but my last one was just two years ago, I don’t want a surgery ever two years for the rest of my reproductive life. Everone says how wonderful Napro is, but when you suffer from the mother of all girly problems there isn’t much more they can do than a regular GYN. I’m 33 and my mom was in her late fifties when she went through menopause! That’s like 13 more surgeries before it’s over!
I could easily get a regular GYN to give me a hysterectomy. But I still have a Catholic conscience. **We are not trying to conceive anymore and are using NFP to avoid. The risk of another miscarriage is just too high with my condition and my emotional health couldn’t sndure the death of another child. So children aren’t in our future, it would be so easy, so freeing. ** I don’t even take the Birth Control Pills that can help my symptoms some, because it is frowned upon by the Church, even with medical reasons.
Whoa. This is so wrong. I wonder the Pope Paul VI Institute knows about this. I don’t think a NaPro or Catholic doctor should be against this. It sounds like a twisted bias.Thank you all!
The Napro doctor (Catholic) won’t give me the BC pill for any reason, neither the hysterectomy for a non-lifethreatening illness. So both options I would have to seek out secular help.
If you are accurately representing what you were told, it’s wrong. You would not have to practice total abstinence.The priest suggest the Napro doctor (because supposedly they can cure everything without BC pills.
I hope yours is a unusual experience with NaPro. It can’t treat my condition (fibroids) but I thought it was effective for endo.
That sounds perfectly reasonable, and like a good plan.
