Surgical Menopause at 40: Symptoms Women Shouldn’t Ignore #shorts #menopause #womenhealth

Name: Surgical Menopause at 40: Symptoms Women Shouldn’t Ignore #shorts #menopause #womenhealth
Uploaded: 2026-01-10T17:02:26+00:00
Duration: 51 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube clip (by Dr. Charles Mok) where a woman describes being placed into surgical menopause after a hysterectomy at age 40 and experiencing…

10 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (by Dr. Charles Mok) where a woman describes being placed into surgical menopause after a hysterectomy at age 40 and experiencing severe symptoms—night sweats, poor sleep, mood swings, anxiety—that harmed her self-esteem and daily life. A clinician comments that large studies from the 1980s–1990s found HRT associated with reduced Alzheimer's, cardiovascular events, and all-cause mortality, and observes many women are not receiving HRT despite symptom relief.

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I felt a mass in my abdomen. She had indicated to me that she felt like it was a cancerous mass. They sent me in for a hysterectomy because I was. I mean, I was 40. I was done having kids anyway, and if they were going to go in there to remove that, they were going to do a hysterectomy. So I was put into a surgical menopause. I did not have cancer, by the way, but I was thrust into a surgical menopause at 40 years old.
When women go through menopause is pretty obvious. It's either period stop, or you have a hysterectomy.
I just didn't feel good. And, you know, it affects everything. It affects your esteem. I still had massive night sweats. My sleep was horrific. The mood swings, everything that women complain about in midlife, anxiety, all of those things were not being managed.
In the 80s and 90s, we did large studies in humans showing that women on hormone replacement at the time, it was mostly permanent. Basically outlived women who did not go on it. They had less Alzheimer's, less heart attacks, less strokes, less. All cause mortality.
I feel like 90% of them are not on any kind of hormone replacement. And if they were that, it's almost like a fog lifts. I can't imagine not having it. I just can't imagine where I'd be in my life right now. I don't think I'd be doing any of the things that I'm doing right now.