What are the side effects of an oophorectomy?

What are the side effects of an oophorectomy?

Risks of an oophorectomy include the following:

• Bleeding.
• Infection.
• Damage to nearby organs.
• Rupture of a tumor, spreading potentially cancerous cells.
• Retention of ovary cells that continue to cause signs and symptoms, such as pelvic pain, in premenopausal women (ovarian remnant syndrome)

Do you still get your period after an oophorectomy?

After your surgery, you’ll stop menstruating (getting your period). You may have normal symptoms of menopause, including night sweats, hot flashes, and vaginal dryness. If you’re in menopause or have already gone through it, you may still notice some of these symptoms.

What happens when you have an oophorectomy?

Unilateral oophorectomy: Remove one ovary. Bilateral oophorectomy: Remove both ovaries. Salpingo-oophorectomy: Remove an ovary and fallopian tube (the small organ that guides eggs from your ovary to your uterus) Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy: Remove both ovaries and both fallopian tubes.

Does removing your ovaries cause hair loss?

Women are more likely to develop androgenic alopecia after menopause, when they have fewer female hormones. It can also happen after a women undergoes a hysterectomy (removal of uterus). Hormonal imbalance could also be to blame.

Do you have periods without ovaries?

Removal of one ovary still allows a woman to continue to menstruate and to have children, as long as the remaining ovary is not damaged. When both ovaries are removed, menstrual periods stop, a woman can no longer become pregnant, and estrogen and progesterone are no longer produced by the reproductive system.

Do you still produce estrogen after ovaries are removed?

Until menopause, the ovaries make most of your body’s estrogen. When your ovaries are removed (oophorectomy) during a hysterectomy, your estrogen levels drop. Estrogen therapy (ET) replaces some or all of the estrogen that your ovaries would be making until menopause.

Why does it hurt where my ovary was removed?

Ovarian remnant syndrome is a rare condition where small pieces of ovarian tissue are inadvertently left in the pelvic cavity, following the surgical removal of one or both ovaries. The remnant tissue can grow, form cysts or hemorrhage, producing pain.