Hysterectomy-Topic Overview
A hysterectomy is surgery to take out a woman’s uterus, the organ in a woman's belly where a baby grows during pregnancy. After a hysterectomy, you will not be able to get pregnant.
Actually a partial hysterectomy takes the uterus and leaves the cervix. A total takes both. If you take all of that along with the ovaries, it's call total hysterecomy with oophorectomy..or something like that. I know...I had a total years ago...kept my ovaries.
And perhaps I am calling it the wrong thing but they did remove a section of my uterus. It is very unusual to have what I had done and they never really understood what caused a mass to grow the way it did around the ovary, fallopian tube and attach itself to the uterus the way it did. The ovary they removed never developed and they believe this was cause from an old Pneumonia virus I had when I was 8. Removing a piece from the ovary they left was only for the purpose of biopsy.
I was told that they just didn't know if I was going to ever have children and after years of using no birth control method and not getting pregnant, I figured it wasn't going to happen. It took nearly 6 years. My first son was 4 weeks early; my 2nd son, almost 10 weeks early.
This past year, I had an endometrial ablation. They could clearly see the thickening of the uterus but ruled out cancer (after several test) and really weren't convinced I was menopausal, although I had all the signs and symptoms. There just isn’t a hell of a lot of research done on the surgery I had and I still think there is a link between early menopause and the procedure I had.
Even with the procedure I had, I still am not out of the wood for a total hysterectomy in the future but is it sure nice not having any periods.