Keeping Ovaries

I have heard that women who have gone through the change still fill the usual premenstrual symptoms once a month. Is this also true after having a TAH?

If you keep your ovaries you will still be cycling, just without the period. So if you have PMS now you will probably still have PMS after surgery, but a lot of post op ladies who have kept their ovaries say it diminishes as time passes.

Hi. I had some PMS each month, a lot of it having to do with my emotions. I had my surgery about one week before my period would have hit, so didn't really feel any PMS stuff in November. But the weekend before Christmas my moods were all over the map and physically I felt the same way I would feel before my period, just without the period. I don't know if part of it was the surgery hitting me, I was lonely at home by myself, or if my ovaries and hormones woke up big time. I am waiting until mid to late Jan to see what happens. But I've heard if you keep your ovaries you go through the same thing you would normally go through each month, just no period.

i can give a big AMEN to that. it has been almost 3 years (wow) since my surgery and i have 1 ovary and yes yes yes i still get PMS. you would think it would go away and hopefully one day it will.My questions is do you still go through menopause? I have a friend who has a hyst 2 months before me and her dr said no but then other ladies i talk to said yes.so which is it and does it come sooner? I have started getting vag dryness and burning and alot of other meno symptoms. my dr said perimenopause so how long before it really hits.So far the patch is doing ok but will i have to up the dose, the closer i get? my mother went through menopause in her 50's so that is a good 16 or more years. oh bother!

I talked to my PCP to get a second opinion before having my surgery. She told me to have my gyno leave my ovaries if there was nothing wrong with them. She said it would be better to go through regular menopause than surgical menopause. So I would say yes, those of us with ovaries will go through menopause, but depending on how are ovaries work after the hysterectomy, it could be sooner than it would without the hysterectomy. I read that it could be within 5 years of the surgery.

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Originally posted by whitetitan89 My questions is do you still go through menopause? I have a friend who has a hyst 2 months before me and her dr said no but then other ladies i talk to said yes.so which is it and does it come sooner? I have started getting vag dryness and burning and alot of other meno symptoms. my dr said perimenopause so how long before it really hits.So far the patch is doing ok but will i have to up the dose, the closer i get? my mother went through menopause in her 50's so that is a good 16 or more years. oh bother!

Yes you will still go through menopause. It may be sooner than it would have been without surgery. Sometimes the ovaries quit early as a result of a hysterectomy, because it disrupts their blood supply.

Sorry!

I went through menopause before my surgery and I did not continue to feel hormonal changes once a month. You need to be ovulating, I believe, to feel those changes on a regular basis. That is not to say there are no hormones at all and no fluctuation in feelings, but it does diminish in time. At least that has been my experinece without HRT.