Sex drive after hysterectomy
You may have heard that your sex drive will go down after a hysterectomy and that you’ll no longer enjoy sex. Actually, about 75% of women find that their libido remains unchanged and 20% actually had increased sexual desire. If you expect to have lower libido you may actually think yourself into it.
However, for some couples, the experience of going through a hysterectomy increases the bond between them and sex is better than ever. If your sex drive is low after your hysterectomy, it may be because your ovaries were removed, resulting in hormone imbalance. Natural hormones may help you.
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Orgasm after hysterectomy
You may be worried that you won’t be able to climax after your hysterectomy. If you experienced orgasm deep within your pelvis, you may have difficulty climaxing because your uterus and cervix are absent. You can still enjoy orgasm but you’ll have to learn how to do it through stimulation of your clitoris. This will require some patience so don’t despair.
How to ease back into sex after a hysterectomy
- You may need several weeks to heal completely after your operation. Be sure to ask your gynecologist when it is safe for you to resume intercourse.
- Be open with your partner and help him to understand that you need time to recover. Don’t be afraid to touch and hold each other during this time.
- Fear of painful intercourse may lead to vaginal dryness and discomfort during intercourse. If you are well lubricated there should be no pain as your clitoris and labia (the lips covering the vaginal opening) are not affected by the operation.
- Encourage your partner to gently caress your clitoris. This should help with vaginal lubrication and arouse you.
- Guide your partner’s finger into your vagina slowly and gently. When you’re comfortable, introduce his penis slowly and gently into your vagina. He should not thrust until you’re ready.
- Once the two of you are comfortably, normal sexual desire should return and you may proceed to have normal intercourse.
- If vaginal dryness remains a problem, a lubricating jelly should help. In the long run you may need a natural progesterone/natural estrogen combination cream, especially if your ovaries have been removed.
- If you continue to experience pain in spite of all you precautions, consult your gynecologist.
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I went to my doctor for a cyst on my right ovary. He did not offer me a ct125 test for cancer and insisted the cyst was most likely cancer and needed to be removed. He then proceeded to preform a total abdominal hysterectomy on me even though I said no to this procedure. My life ended that day. Hysterectomy is akin to male castration which is NOT a routine surgery as hysterectomy is. Why?? Why are we women taken advantage of and lied to as to hysterectomy and it’s lasting effects? My doctor ruined my life and this happens every minute of every day. Please read ‘The H Word’ by Nora Coffey before making ANY decisions involving surgery. It is YOUR life. Protect it.
hi bobbie sorry to hear the above.
i know where i live it it not routine or even comon for them to do a ct125, can iask when you come from?as im from kent.
got dianosed with endometriosis in oct last year at the age of 20 and i cant even have a smear test , yet some of the symtoms are quite alike. here we cant have smears till we are 25 thats another five years of worry.x
“Actually, about 75% of women find that their libido remains unchanged and 20% actually had increased sexual desire. ”
Are you quoting from the study in Norway that interviewed 409 women? If so, that study was full of holes and has been debunked.
Hysterectomy destroys a womans sex life by;1) Severing all the nerves that supply sensation to the vagina, labia, clitoris. 2)Disrupting the blood supply to same.3) Removing the uterus is removing the biggest erogenous zone. 4)If ovaries were removed (castration) you have instant hormone loss that no synthetic hormone or herbal concoction can replace.
Though your scenario would work with an intact woman who might be gun shy, it does not and will not work for a hysterectomised woman.
How in the world does going through a hysterectomy strengthen the bond between couples? Is that some kind of sick sadistic kind of relationship? ‘My husband loves me more since all my goods were yanked.’ or ‘Losing my uterus and sex drive and having my entire life destroyed has made my marriage stronger because now he has a real reason to b*tch.’ ???
I’m almost 2 years post op. My marriage stinks because I can’t have sex anymore. There was no real reason for these butchers to do this to me and I sometimes wish I would have died on the table.
Please contact the HERS Foundation or browse my website to get information your not going to get from the Doctors.
Once your sex drive is gone, with your uterus, nothing will bring it back. Your sex life will be a bitter memory and you’ll live a life full of anger and pain after hysterectomy.