if you’re looking for a sign to get the hysterectomy, get it. if you are wondering if you will feel freer, less burdened, more optimistic, lighter without your uterus, you will. if you simply want to never get periods again, get the hysterectomy. if you want to have sex with a different person every day forever and never worry about getting pregnant, get the hysterectomy. if you don’t know whether or not you want to stay on hormones, get the hysterectomy anyway. if you’re afraid you’re too young, and that people will judge you, get it anyway. you don’t have to live in a hostile body. you are the one who gets to decide what it will and will not do.
If you are concerned about the hormonal implications of the hysterectomy, another option is a salpingectomy (getting fallopian tubes removed). I got mine out when roe was overturned and I’ve never been happier. I still get periods and stuff and I still ovulate, but there’s no way for the egg to get into the uterus so I can’t get pregnant. The surgery was laparoscopic, left teeny tiny scars, and i was home from the hospital like 4 hours after I checked in. No pain.
You can find lists of doctors who will do these surgeries on people in their 20s on Reddit, sorted by location. I had to go thru 3 OBGYNs till I found a surgeon who would agree to do it.
I will add that I received a hysterectomy but retained my ovaries. I am not on any HRT at the moment, have no periods, cannot get pregnant, etc. My recovery time was longer, but you also have hysto / no period options if you don’t want to be on hormones.
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