Testosterone Replacement after a Hysterectomy Protects Women from Heart Disease
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2020-10-12

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My bio-identical testosterone replacement medical practice helps many women and men come back to normal life after aging decreases their testosterone and limits their productivity and joy of living.  Most of my patients experience slow negative changes in their quality of life and begin to accumulate medical diseases including heart disease, over the first 10 years after their testosterone level becomes critically low.  However, the most severely affected patients are women who have had a hysterectomy before menopause.  These women generally have their ovaries removed because they have a gynecological condition or disease that makes removal of the uterus and ovaries necessary. However, women without ovarian removal, with only a hysterectomy, also have a high risk of experiencing the same symptoms and diseases as those women who also have their ovaries removed!

Women are not warned about the symptoms of hormone loss because it is not covered in the medical curriculum of OBGYNs, therefore their doctors are not adequately trained to treat menopause and low testosterone. This lack of knowledge and the incorrect expectation that menopause will not cause severe symptoms, that testosterone is essential to the health and working of the female mind and body, is disastrous for the patients who think they will be “all better” after their hysterectomy!

By the time most post-hysterectomy women get to me for care, they have seen an average of 5 (3-9) specialists and have gone through a myriad of tests and treatments that haven’t worked for their multiple symptoms and complaints.  Removal of the ovaries causes women to experience an abrupt loss of hormones after their surgery and the outcome is a whole list of symptoms coming from the abrupt loss of testosterone and estradiol, the two most necessary hormones that are made in the ovary.  

Symptoms of Testosterone Loss:
• Loss of libido/sexual dysfunction
• Fatigue
• Insomnia
• Weight Gain/Obesity
• Lack of ability to remember names and places
• Lack of motivation
• Arthritis
• Generalized pain
• Loss of Muscle 
• Loss of physical stamina 
• Migraine headaches
• Hot flashes
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Rapid aging of the skin
• Hair loss
• Vaginal dryness and shrinkage
• Painful intercourse
• Clitoral shrinkage
• Osteoporosis at a young age

Symptoms of Estradiol Loss:
• Hot flashes/and or night sweats
• Anxiety
• Dry vagina
• Loss of hair in the front of the head
• Lack of sexual response=vaginal lubrication
• Bladder spasms with urine loss
• Stress urinary incontinence
• Painful intercourse from a shrinking and dry vagina
• Osteoporosis at a young age


My patients who have had hysterectomies and removal of their ovaries fly in from all over the country and the world, because they are desperate to get their lives back!  Most of them have been verbally demeaned, dismissed, called crazy, and fat and lazy, and ripped off by charlatans who were the doctors who should have been finding the problem and curing it. Their own doctors usually don’t offer them hormones, or they give them an FDA approved estrogen-only pill that makes their symptoms almost survivable, but they still don’t get completely back to normal better.  This leaves them depressed, hopeless and suspicious of the medical profession. Consequently, they are afraid to seek help until they read my experience with hysterectomy and hormone loss on my website.