Hysterectomy instead of hormone therapy?

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  • Polly_Ester
    Polly_Ester Member Posts: 34
    edited June 2019

    I had a complete hysterectomy with removal of the ovaries so I could stop Lupron. I still have to take Arimidex to eliminate any estrogen produced by other tissues or that I could come into contact with.

    It's about the same either way. Lupron is worse though.



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  • rubyredslippers
    rubyredslippers Member Posts: 228
    edited June 2019

    any women find the term “hysterectomy” offensive and in need of being changed?

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  • SimoneRC
    SimoneRC Member Posts: 419
    edited June 2019

    I don't. Old Greek and Latin origins for medical terms do not bother me. To each his own, though!

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  • rubyredslippers
    rubyredslippers Member Posts: 228
    edited June 2019

    Male doctors who ran things decided as women were hysterical and they were removing female reproductive organs they were removing what made women hysterical. Hence, hysterectomy.

    Weakness/unreasonableness → Hysteria →women.


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  • Salamandra
    Salamandra Member Posts: 1,444
    edited June 2019

    Ruby Red,

    I'm pretty sure the etymology is the other way around. Hyster was a word for womb. Because men thought women were crazy, they named a type of craziness using their word for womb. The name for the part of the body doesn't come from the 'disease', but vice versa.

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 12,424
    edited June 2019

    Yes, hystera is the Greek word for uterus. Very long ago it was thought that hysteria and hysterical behavior were results of a defect of the womb. So it follows that since only women have wombs, only they were subject to hysteria. Of course, many hundreds of years later we know that faulty wombs do not cause hysteria and men can be hysterical too.

    The origin of the word hysterectomy is so old that I doubt it will change. Although I understand the faulty facts that lie behind it’s origin, my simple answer is no, it doesn’t bother me


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  • ksusan
    ksusan Member Posts: 4,505
    edited June 2019

    The term means uterus. "Hysteria" was the term for the disease of "wandering womb."

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