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Re: ***hystorectomy, partial or whole???***
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 24 Sep 2000 08:24:13 -0500 (CDT)
This, unfortunately, is a long discussion with many ramifications and it
needs to be done face to face with question and answer but feel free to
use the search button at top right and check the archives for some
responses to just this question.
HSM
At Sat, 23 Sep 2000, heather wrote:
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>My mother will be getting a hystorectomy soon, and she is wondering what
>will be better.... To get her ovaries taken out, or to keep them in.
>She already has very heavy periods and the PMS to go along with it. I
>thought that maybe if she took them out she wouldn't have the PMS
>(depressed, angry, sad) so bad because of the loss of hormone's. Is
>this true? Which is better for those symptoms?
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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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