Around 55,000 hysterectomy operations are carried out in the UK each year. This means about one in five women will have a hysterectomy at some point.
Having a hysterectomy is an immediate journey into menopause but how do you best treat it? Conventional advice is oestrogen-only HRT but bioidentical doctors like Dame Dr Shirley Bond take a very different view.
Having an early menopause can have profound effects, whether occurring naturally or from a hysterectomy.
This ‘surgical menopause’ can help many symptoms, but may leave you with some you had not counted on.
Do you know the effects of a hysterectomy and how your hormone balance will be affected?
Any bleeding post menopause needs to be checked, and here are some of the reasons why.
This was first commented on by Dr John Lee at one of his seminars in London many years ago, but how could it affect you?
Fibroids are common, and options offered are usually surgical or drug based. Oestrogen dominance is a factor and natural treatment is with bioidentical natural progesterone.
As a private GP with many years of experience of bioidentical hormones, Dr Bond offers her thoughts on an increasingly common surgery for women and just exactly what hormones are needed afterwards.
Women frequently ask if bioidentical hormones can be used after a hysterectomy. It is a common misconception that only oestrogen is needed but progesterone is also vital as US bioidentical expert Jeffrey Dach explains.