hysterectomy• I then had to have a hysterectomy.• A hysterectomy is a major operation with a long recoveryperiod.• Prior etal found no change in transit time after hysterectomy.• She had had a completehysterectomy and a repair.• Kaiser spokeswoman Jamie Trevor said that patients are told that no sterilization procedure short of a complete hysterectomy can preventpregnancy.• A limitation of this study is that we had no information on the type of hysterectomy - abdominal or vaginal.• Its members conduct studies that are mainly sociological in nature, looking at questions like the importance of counselling to hysterectomy patients.