CHChrystal HurstFounder/CEO at The Sister Circle

Coach Gessie shares how she overcame a 14-year battle with fibroids

21 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal testimony, Coach Gessie recounts her experience after undergoing a hysterectomy at age 44. Although her ovaries were preserved, she entered surgical menopause, a fact she says was not adequately explained by her doctors. She describes severe menopausal symptoms—hot flashes, emotional volatility, and painful intimacy—that disrupted her relationship with her husband. When offered hormone replacement therapy (HRT), she declined, fearing an increased risk of cancer, especially after battling fibroids. Instead, she sought natural, root‑cause solutions, describing how her faith guided her toward a holistic healing journey.

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I remember after the hysterectomy, I was 44 years old and I ended up in full-blown menopause, even though they left my ovaries. They didn't talk to you about that part. Yeah, well, they said that if they leave your ovaries, you shouldn't, right? But I did. But statistically, I'm sure there's a group of women who still, right? And because of all of the surgical complications, there was more risk, right? Now I'm having severe symptoms. Dealing with crazy, you know, the flashes, like outta nowhere, you feel like you're crazy emotionally. It was interrupting my intimacy with my husband. It was painful. I'll just put excruciating. And I was like, this, I can't live like this. They wanted to put me on hormone replacement therapy. So all of those hormones being pumped in my body, I didn't, I wasn't willing to increase the risk of what that could mean, and I was like, I was not going to go from fighting fibroids to fighting cancer. So I started to look for natural solutions, and that is when the Lord really started me on this journey of root cause focus.