How Do You Tell If You Are Beginning Menopause If You Had A Hysterectomy And So You Do Not Have That Symptom?
September 22, 2009 by Lynn
Filed under Menopause Symptoms
I had a hysterectomy many years ago and am now wondering, without this indication of the onset of menopause, how else do you tell if as a 51 year old woman when I am experiencing menopause?
Related posts:
- Can A Woman Who Gave Birth Just Before Menopause Continue Breastfeeding After Menop. Or Does Milk Prod Cease?
- Can You Go Through Menopause Again If U Have Had A Hysterectomy And They Left Your Ovaries?
- Had A Partial Hysterectomy 2 Months Ago.now I’m Experienceing Menopause Like Symptoms. Any One Else Have This?
- Can The Symptoms Of Menopause Start In Your Early Thirties?
- After A Hysterectomy, Will I Still To Through Menopause?
If I remember my high school biology right, most of the sex hormones are produced by the ovaries, not the uterus, so unless your ovaries were removed along with your uterus, you should be experience many menopausal symptoms (hot flashes, or whatever) like a typical woman. If after your hysterectomy, the doctor prescribed replacement hormones, and you’ve been taking them ever since, you won’t have a menopause.
If you had a total hysterectomy ( removal of uterus and ovaries) you have been ‘surgically menopaused.’ ( You went thru menopause then) If your ovaries were left, you may experience hot flashes, night sweats.
If you are having heart palpitations which are common, I urge you to see a cardiologist.
once you have hysterectomy, that is when menopause starts, and you are just one of the lucky ones not to have any symptoms