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Advice on getting a Hysterectomy

So I'm a 22 year old female and I am soon planning a hysterectomy with my gyno. I've struggled with my period basically my whole life, I just recently started going to the gyno about it around the last 4 months of 2025 and we tried birth control pills, different types of progesterone pills and nothing worked.

When we tried taking the BC pills continuously skipping the placebo week I started bleeding and didn't stop for almost 4 months straight. And during that time around the start of month 3 of that I did progesterone pills and they didn't really help.

I also had an ovarian cyst the size of a PUMPKIN! Removed back in May of 2025 (I posted pictures on here if you wanna see lol) so yeah I'm really just done, I never want kids in fact I'm scared of getting pregnant and the pain of childbirth (even tho I'm a virgin lol).

I'm just really more interested in the healing process that anyone who has had it has to offer, I'm a server and I can't be off work for too long because I literally cannot afford it but I got my gallbladder removed back in February and they had to cut through my stomach muscle and I was back to work the next week (although I absolutely took it easy and mainly worked cash register).

Any advice and questions will be really helpful thank you:)

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