Dr. Tabatha Barber explains when hysterectomy makes sense: uncontrolled bleeding that requires blood transfusions, iron infusions, or emergency room visits. For less severe bleeding, functional medicine approaches to find root causes may work instead.
The uterus physically cannot be controlled in the current situation. If your doctor does not know how to get your hormones back into balance and to evaluate for root cause issues and you're really struggling, say you're bleeding so much you've required blood transfusions or iron infusions, or you're close to that, you're ending up in the er. Yeah, you might want to do a hysterectomy because you do need to stop the bleeding in the situation if it's not so severe. A lot of the times you have the opportunity to seek out a functional medicine physician and actually tackle these root causes.
