[DapperButch]

Ok, Vincent, I see what you are saying here.

I am going to assume that when you say you had a hysterectomy, you had a oophorectomy (removal of ovaries), during that surgery (not everyone does, but I think that is part of the standard hysto for trans guys in Australia).

However, here you are, 8 years later, having menopausal symptoms after stopping testosterone for a period of time.

I just spent the last 45 minutes doing a bit of research on the web. I read that some females can have menopausal symptoms (i.e. hot flashes), up to 10 years after hitting natural menopause ("menopause" = determined by blood work). That is a long time. This is because even though the ovaries have stopped producing estrogen, there can still be a very slow reduction of estrogen in the female system.

However, you are talking 8 years after surgical menopause where the ovaries are completely removed. I couldn't find anything on the web that would tell me how long menopausal symptoms should last after that.

I am very curious about this though, so I am going to continue to look into it.

Now, on the off chance that you still have your ovaries and are saying that you find it weird (and that your doctor concurs), that after stopping testosterone for 6 months that you had a return of menopausal symptoms, I do not find that strange. Testosterone shuts down estrogen production, but only temporarily. A person can be on testosterone for 20 years, but if they stop their testosterone, the ovaries will pick back up where they left off, producing estrogen, as normal.

Two weeks ago I had a full hysterectomy (including oophorectomy). I had a massive amount of adhesions (scar tissue), due to past abdominal surgery. Amazingly, my surgeon was so committed to doing it by laproscopy so that I wouldn't have to get cut abdominally, that he spent the extra 4 hours needed to cut through all of the scar tissue to get to all of my reproductive system for removal. Needless to say, since he had such a hard time seeing everything through the mess of scar tissue, he said there is a very small chance that he didn't get every bit of the ovarian tissue of one (or both), of my ovaries. He told me that if that is the case, and I go off testosterone, there is a chance that my body will produce estrogen again.