Will a hysterectomy cure hirsutism? *NO*, in my opinion.

I had terrible periods over years, irregular and copious, sometimes almost non-stop. And pain...pain that would choke a horse, as I used to describe it.

My blood red corpuscle count was down so low that my doctor didn't want me to drive, probably not because I couln't drive safely, but because, if I got into an accident, there was no way they could transfuse me fast enough to save my life.

Doctor sent me directly to my local hospital for 4 units of blood...while his hospital arranged for a surgery.

There were other 'events' and more transfusions, then the surgery, where they took the uterus and one ovary, leaving one they said was in poor shape.

After that, my red corpuscle count went sky high, and they eventually had to bleed me, every once in a while.

That was the time I began to notice that my chin hair began to grow more coarsely, and eventually I began to lose the hair on my head. Neither are as troublesome as some people have, but I notice.

Yes, I lost the pain...and I have no periods...but, I WOULD NOT recommend that surgery to anyone!

To the surgeon's amazement, when he got in there, he discovered endometriosis, and huge fibroids. He told me that endometriosis is usually very painful.

I had made a mistake...I DIDN'T yell and scream about the pain...I tried to be ladylike. Gloom.

In short, I had surgery BEFORE diagnosis.

Given the chance, I wouldn't do it that way again!!!

Much later, I read that there is a hormonal storage area behind the pituitary gland that can supply you, and maybe a couple of female neighbors, for years.

Luckily, I didn't take any hormone replacement therapy (HRT). None was offered, though there were advertising brochures in doctors' waiting rooms.


Don't, in my opinion, try to manage your hormones by hand. Please. Just don't.

Hormones are too close to what makes you a person!

My best,

Fledgling