Some facts from the: HERS Foundation Hysterectomy Educational Resources & Services.
- Hysterectomy will cause women to experience a loss of physical sexual sensation as a result.
- A woman's vagina is shortened, scarred and dislocated by hysterectomy.
- No drugs or other treatments can replace ovarian or uterine hormones or functions. The loss after an hysterectomy is permanent.
- The medical term for the removal of the ovaries is castration. Most women are castrated at hysterectomy.
- The uterus and ovaries function throughout life in women who have not been hysterectomized or castrated.
- Twice as many women in their 20's and 30's are hysterectomized as women in their 50's and 60's.
- Gynecologists, hospitals and drug companies make more than 8 billion dollars a year from the business of hysterectomy and castration.
Hysterectomy's damage is life-long. Among its most common consequences, in addition to operative injuries are:
- heart disease
- osteoporosis
- bone, joint and muscle pain and immobility
- loss of sexual desire, arousal, sensation
- painful intercourse, vaginal damage
- displacement of bladder, bowel, and other pelvic organs
- urinary tract infections, frequency, incontinence
- chronic constipation and digestive disorders
- profound fatigue
- chronic exhaustion
- altered body odor
- loss of short-term memory
- blunting of emotions, personality changes, despondency, irritability, anger, reclusiveness and suicidal thinking
