Weight gain, hormone fluctuations, and tearing up over a paper towel ad.

Turns out the surgery was just the beginning.

Welcome to your life after a hysterectomy.

Which path am I on?

Hysterectomy advice that ignores whether you kept your ovaries is guessing. A few quick questions, and you get your path: what changed in your body, what to keep an eye on, and what to read next.

Your answers never leave this page.
Have you had your hysterectomy yet?
Question 1 of 5
Sources and assumptions

This tool sorts the site's content by what was removed. It doesn't diagnose anything, score anything, or store anything. The claims inside it come from:

Which claim comes from where. Immediate menopause after both ovaries are removed, and the testosterone drop: NHS, WHC/BMS (Sept 2025), The Menopause Society (2022). Hormone therapy at least until the average age of natural menopause: WHC/BMS for under-45s, The Menopause Society for premature and early menopause; NICE NG23 covers premature ovarian insufficiency under 40, and those age brackets are not interchangeable. Not usually suitable after hormone-dependent breast cancer: NHS. Ovarian failure at about 15% within four years with ovaries kept, against 8% without surgery: Moorman 2011, women aged 30 to 47, with the study's own caveat that it can't separate the surgery from the condition behind it. Menopause identified by symptoms over 45, hormone test considered between 40 and 45: NICE NG23. Sudden menopause symptoms as a call-your-doctor item: MyHealth Alberta (Healthwise), May 2025. Recovery ranges: womenshealth.gov at the quick end, RCOG and NHS at the slower end.

Where credible guidance disagrees, this tool shows the whole range rather than averaging. Where sources give different numbers for different countries, you get both, because your body doesn't care about jurisdiction.

This is general information. It isn't medical advice, and no quiz can diagnose anything. Your surgeon's instructions outrank everything on this page. If something feels wrong, that's reason enough to call your doctor.

Start with what's on your mind

The whole mess, sorted into eight piles. Start with the one that's on top.

Weight Loss

Why is losing weight so much harder now?

Recovery

What's normal this week, and what isn't?

Hormones

What changes, whether you kept your ovaries or not?

Diet & Food

What should I be eating now?

Exercise

When can I start, and what's safe?

Mind & Mood

Why am I crying at everything?

Sex & Intimacy

When is it safe, and will it feel different?

Before Surgery

How do I get ready for this?

Mallory Milne outdoors with a young child

Mallory Milne

No medical degree here. Just a hysterectomy and a lot of reading.

I opted to keep my ovaries when I had my hysterectomy due to complications from Essure, a permanent birth control device that has since been pulled from the market; early ovarian failure had other plans for me. Everything I wish I knew then, and how it grew into this project, is in my story.

Read my story

Your surgery, your timeline

Four free tools. What’s healing right now, a week-by-week plan on your own dates, a page you can hand your doctor, and somewhere to write the bad days down before they blur together.

Recovery Timeline

Your surgery type and date in; what’s healing right now, what’s typically cleared, and what to watch out.

Your Recovery Roadmap

Eight questions, then a dated week-by-week plan you can print. Built for your surgery, not the average one.

Appointment Prep Report

Your symptoms and what they’re costing you, with your three questions at the top of a page you can print and hand over.

Daily Symptom Tracker

A minute a day on a four-point scale. The weeks print out, so an appointment doesn’t rest on what you can remember.
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