Hi, I’m 28 female. I’ll be 1-2 months out from my 29th birthday when I have my hysterectomy. I have spent ten years almost all together besides the two pregnancies and trying to get pregnant, trying BC options to help with PCOS. I’ve done months without, to years with and without. I’ve exhausted the pill, the mini pill, the patch, and the IUD. None are working for me. Well I went in over sudden bleeding twice a month in a 28-30 day window. So basically with a IUD in after a year of no bleeding my uterus decided to go from no bleeding to two periods a month. It was so fun. Well after stressing to my main doctor my worries and her being super supportive we did an ultrasound first. A mass was found in my right ovarie. Then an MRI a few months later showed the pass. They believe it to be a cyst but it’s the size of my ovaries. My doctor referred me to OBGYN. The OB suggested a minimum taking the mass out and my tubes (I’m done having kids as fertility treatments were needed for the last and two is plenty all and all) but she gave me the option to remove my tubes and my uterus.

I think I’m almost 100% sold on a hysterectomy. Though I’m coming here to ask for everyone’s experience. I have no PCOS friends who have had one. I’m hoping someone here can tell me the following.

• How was the robotic/laparoscopic hysterectomy?
• How was recovery time?
• Did you see your PCOS symptoms lesson?
• How were your hormones after? (I’ll be keeping my ovaries)
• Did you take a birth control pill after? (My doctor said this could be an option to help with hormones)
• overall do you think it helped your PCOS all and all?

One more detail because I know some may ask why this is an option - Doc said sometimes the treatment options we have are hard to do the full time because of outward symptoms aka bleeding. She said you are probably one of those cases from the sounds of it (because no matter what I try, I just constantly bleed.) She said the idea is if we take away the bleeding symptom we can actually treat the hormones without your mental anguish from the bleeding.

Edited: My focus is on hormonal balance for weight loss and resolving acne. I got most of my acne under control with skin care regimen but I have some stubborn spots so I’m hoping this will fix that. Or at least hormonal treatments might help with.