instant menopause despite one ovary

It had not to occured to either my doctor or myself that it mattered which ovary to remove when we decided he would remove only one to avoid instant onset menopause. What a shock to begin the first night home with a night sweat and regular hot flashes. When we discussed it a week later at the visit where I was alarmed by the intense constipation symptoms, he looked perplexed repeating ovaries do not usually work independently. Yet, how to explain my instant symptoms. However, I have learned since that discussion if the blood supply has been previously interrupted due to other causes this ovary could have been inactive all along. I had a tubal ligation 13 years previous and an invasive abdominal gallbladder surgery 22 years ago causing lots of scarring in the area of this particular ovary, the reason he later admitted he chose to remove the other one. Interesting...what do you think? Could it be menopaause or a reaction to the medications used in surgery?

Not sure that you are in menopause.

I retained both of my ovaries, yet had hot flashes for about 4 weeks....until my ovaries woke up.

This may be what you are going through.

Agree with above post. I also had hot flashes every night for the first little while.
It seems that for the last two weeks I can tell the ovaries are working again, my breasts became quite sore for about a week and now this week I have been having some migraine issues, which always occurred for me at the time of my period.

This is good to know. I was wondering what was going on. I had my ovaries so that I would not have any issues. I am on mysecond week, my breasts have been so sore and the hot flashes were to much. So I will give myself a couple more weeks to see what is going on.

It took me about three months for my remaining ovary to take the edge off all those menopausal symptoms.