Health For Life M.D. Our Doctor S Advice
Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D.: If your ovaries are normal, there is no need to remove them during a hysterectomy for uterine fibroids–or any other time, for that matter. If you’re premenopausal, there are good reasons to keep your ovaries. They will continue to make estrogen until they naturally stop at menopause. If you have your ovaries removed before that, you’ll quickly begin to feel the symptoms of menopause. Postmenopausal women who undergo hysterectomy for fibroids often elect to have their ovaries removed because they’re no longer making estrogen anyway....