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Is it possible to conceive after you have a partial hyster?
I assume you mean they left your ovaries and took the uterus. Short answer is, no pregnancy is possible after a partial hysterectomy.
But you used the word 'conceive,' not 'successful pregnancy.' This opens a theoretical issue involving vanishingly tiny odds if it is even possible at all. Conception happens when the sperm reaches an egg and creates an embryo. In theory, if a sperm were to somehow find its way to an egg even in a woman who has no uterus, there is a chance of an embryo being created. This is all speculation, though. Hysterectomies don't leave a passage for the sperm to reach the egg, even if the woman is even still young enough to be ovulating viable eggs.
Even if an embryo were to be created in this unlikely scenario, there is no place for it to go, if there is no uterus. It would have to find a place to implant, which in absence of the uterus would mean it would (possibly) try to attach somewhere else. If it did, it would have to have found a place in the body that is hospitable (with a blood supply and not fragile), or it would fade. Ectopic pregnancies in the abdomen have happened on a sort of one-in-millions-of-women rate (though the few that have been written up in the literature happened to women who had their uterus). That kind of pregnancy doesn't have a good prognosis. So if your question was "can someone have a successful pregnancy after a partial hysterectomy" the answer is no.
Given how many women have partial hysterectomies, if there was any chance of a sperm getting through to an egg, it would be known by now and would be addressed in the surgery.
So, the short answer is not even conception could happen, because the partial hysterectomy produces a barrier to the sperm reaching the egg. However, because of that (vanishingly small or even impossible) chance discussed above, if you have been having unprotected sex and are young enough to have viable eggs, and then feel pregnancy symptoms, it is not entirely foolish to take a pregnancy test.
But you used the word 'conceive,' not 'successful pregnancy.' This opens a theoretical issue involving vanishingly tiny odds if it is even possible at all. Conception happens when the sperm reaches an egg and creates an embryo. In theory, if a sperm were to somehow find its way to an egg even in a woman who has no uterus, there is a chance of an embryo being created. This is all speculation, though. Hysterectomies don't leave a passage for the sperm to reach the egg, even if the woman is even still young enough to be ovulating viable eggs.
Even if an embryo were to be created in this unlikely scenario, there is no place for it to go, if there is no uterus. It would have to find a place to implant, which in absence of the uterus would mean it would (possibly) try to attach somewhere else. If it did, it would have to have found a place in the body that is hospitable (with a blood supply and not fragile), or it would fade. Ectopic pregnancies in the abdomen have happened on a sort of one-in-millions-of-women rate (though the few that have been written up in the literature happened to women who had their uterus). That kind of pregnancy doesn't have a good prognosis. So if your question was "can someone have a successful pregnancy after a partial hysterectomy" the answer is no.
Given how many women have partial hysterectomies, if there was any chance of a sperm getting through to an egg, it would be known by now and would be addressed in the surgery.
So, the short answer is not even conception could happen, because the partial hysterectomy produces a barrier to the sperm reaching the egg. However, because of that (vanishingly small or even impossible) chance discussed above, if you have been having unprotected sex and are young enough to have viable eggs, and then feel pregnancy symptoms, it is not entirely foolish to take a pregnancy test.
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