Dr. Tabatha Barber (YouTube video) answers whether to remove ovaries during a hysterectomy. She advises keeping ovaries because they are the primary source of sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone); removing them causes an immediate loss of those hormones and induces surgical menopause when the patient awakes from surgery.
Do I let them take my ovaries when I have a hysterectomy? If it's to the point where the gynecologist is recommending a hysterectomy, I would highly recommend you keep your ovaries. Because, ladies, your ovaries are where your hormones are made. That's where they're produced. You know, we have hormones that are made in our brain, and our brain talks to our ovaries and tells our ovaries to make more or less progesterone and testosterone and estrogen. And so if you remove the ovaries, you are literally removing the source of the majority of your sex hormones instantly. So when you wake up in the recovery room, you are in surgical menopause. You are in menopause at that point going forward in your life.
