Read article Losing your fertility after treatment for womb cancer
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Womb cancer can be particularly difficult to cope with. If you have not yet had your menopause, you may need to come to terms with losing your fertility. Even if you weren't planning to have any more children, this can be quite a shock. It is the end of a particular phase of your life. You will have all the feelings that come with a natural change of life, but on top of coping with a diagnosis of cancer. This can be true even if you have had your menopause and could no longer become pregnant.
Many women feel a great sense of loss if they have to have a hysterectomy. Some women find the operation makes them feel less feminine. You may need some time to get over this loss of your womb. Many women feel this loss so strongly that it is as if someone close to them has died. If you think of yourself as having been bereaved, you may find the strength of your feelings make more sense to you.
If you feel you need more help than a support group can provide, talk to your GP, nurse or consultant about finding some counselling. Or look at our counselling organisations page. There is also information on what counselling is.
There is information in our coping with cancer section on sex and sexuality, which you might find helpful.
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