Re: Hysterectomy & sex afterwards - Arline

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Arline, I am already on an estrogen patch...and obviously I still have my uterus...my hormones are WHACK...I continued to still have cycles up until recently, so until then, my progesterone was fine...but, if I have the surgery, I won't have to worry about the progesterone issue anyway...and that is good...because the progesterone always makes my bladder worse (IC). Okay, here is the biggie, I'm gonna cut right to the chase here and I think you can handle it LOL...I've read that during climax the uterus actually contracts some too...and that when you have a hysterectomy, well, if the uterus is gone, no more uterus to play a part in climax. Sooooo....my concern is that the surgery would affect my sex life in a negative way. The reason I'm so concerned is that I've had all these stupid pelvic conditions for my entire marriage of almost 14 yrs. now (I'm 35). The last two, my husband and I have actually had a good sex

life...mostly pain free now...if anything messes that up....I'm not going to take that too well as you can imagine...that is why I'm trying to ask others who have had the surgery. Sorry if it's too much info.....*grin* Thanks so much for all of your responses...today has really helped me. I realize that the hormonal balance has to be there for us to have a good sex drive...but will the surgery change things structurally that would interfere, does that make sense? Thanks, ~Chelle Your yeast issues, did they begin before or after your surgery? BABB wrote: The hysterectomy made my sex life better because I hadbeen unable to take hormones as they wouldn't justgive me estrogen alone but since I had a

uterus, theywould only give me combined estgrogen andprogesterone. The progesterone always made me reallysick.After the hysterectomy I could take estrogen (bioidentical) and that improved my sex life a lot since Idon't think I had much estrogen before that as myovaries were pretty atrophied. It isn't just thetestosterone that makes one have libido but theestrogen, too.I wonder why they think it ruined their sex lives? Didthey not go on estrogen?Arline