If you had a hysterectomy, did you keep your ovaries?

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Originally Posted by Kathy Here's another survey. Its not scientific but should be interesting!

I had all of it taken out. No more periods, thank you!

No i had everything removed cause i have endometriosis it was recommended that i should and i didnt want to have to go back and have them removed later just in case

I to am a cevical cancer survior. It was caught very early and treated sucessfully. I had a TAH but my doctor and I discussed the possibility of keeping an ovary if possible. So, I have one ovary and feel confident that I won't have any problems with this choice.

I actually just had my ovaries removed, two years after my TVH. The pain just never stopped from them - felt like they were pulling and twisting. At the time of my hysterectomy (due to adenoid basal carcinoma of the cervix), I was only 36 and felt good about my choice to keep them. In hindsight, if I'd known the kind of pain I'd be in, I would have removed them straight away, but it's always different and you never know. I'm almost a week post-op from my laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy so I'm still moving very slow, but the pain I'd had from my ovaries is now gone

Yes - at least I kept those ovaries! I am 46 but never faced the pink/blue elephant in the room- so lets say I have a lot of regrets and emotional grief for the children I never had...but, too late for that now! I had menorraga - fancy name for horrid periods causing me to be horribly anemic and tired all the time. They found a mass on my cervix and though begnin presented me with the option of ablation or this. I chose this as too many of my friends had reversals if their ablations. That's all folks!

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Originally Posted by Kathy Here's another survey. Its not scientific but should be interesting!

I had "everything" removed. Not by choice, but because I had so many adhesions and leaving them in would have caused more pain.

I had everything but 1 ovary removed. I also had horrendous bleeding and pain every month. They found numerous fibroids in the uterus and numerous cycsts in and on the left ovary and fallopian tube. There was also a very large amount of endometriosis. I had a life threatening post surgical infection that I am nearly recovered from (2 years later). I'm still not used to not having that left lower quadrant pain I had almost constantly. Every time I bend over or "push" I still brace myself for the pain that doesn't come. This was the better choice for me over the oblation.

i am 32 yrs. old and had a hysterectomy when i was 26. i had both overies thaken out for endometriosis. i had had surgery before for the same problem but the endometriosis came back stronger than ever. it was a very hard decision to make but it was killing me and so i made the decision to have the hysterectomy. i havnt had any hormones all these yrs. but they are sounding better to me everyday. i made an appt. with my doc. to get some relief. moodswings and hotflashes are really not my favorite.lol.

There wasn't really an answer choice for my situation, but the closest one was the last one. I had my right ovary/tube removed in an earlier surgery, hoping to relieve my ovarian cysts for a while. The left one of course took over, so I made the decision this year to go ahead and have the other ovary removed, along with the rest of it.

Amy

SO wish I had been able to keep my ovaries. :/