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Review: Getting a Hysterectomy
(plus a feminist rant or two)
Crystal Leigh
01 Jun • Time out of your day: 9 minutes
Earlier this year, I served my uterus with eviction papers and suggested it take my fallopian tubes and cervix with it. Commonly know as performing a YEETERUS, medical professionals like to call it a hysterectomy. Well, technically a “hysterectomy with bilateral salpingectomy” when you throw the tubes in with it. Yeeterus is a lot catchier. I promised a review so here it is:
![A banner with a review. Text reads: "Hystimonial A++ experience, 10/10 [star emoji], Would remove again, If your uterus is living rent free and wrecking the place, YEET THAT SHIT"](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/21ba8809-a10c-4110-b7eb-607f4b3e3b54/Crystal_Leigh.png?t=1716946718)
Key benefits include: no more periods, no more pap smears, elimination of the risk for 2 or more types of cancer.
Joking aside, I’m very lucky – I had about as easy an experience getting my issue diagnosed and treated as a person (in the US at least) can. Less than a year ago, I started having worse periods than normal. Listening to my body, I talked to my doctor about it and had an ultrasound that found an ovarian cyst. A few months, a bunch of tests, doctor’s appointments, and medicines (and side effects) later, that cyst had disappeared, but one popped up in the other ovary and was sticking around (along with some uterine fibroids) despite the meds. I’m in my forties and my uterus is a superfluous internal organ at this point. From my perspective, if it’s giving me trouble… out with it.
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