# Doper (Born) Women: Do You Still Have Your Uterus? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465 "2012-04-20T23:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/1 "2012-04-20T23:28:45Z")
I’ll tell you why I’m asking in a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/2 "2012-04-20T23:30:46Z")
Yep. I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for questions like these. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/3 "2012-04-20T23:31:01Z")
Pretty sure, I can feel it right now. I wasn’t born a Doper though 😉 Now can you tell us why? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/4 "2012-04-20T23:31:03Z")
I’m trying to hold on to mine for as long as I can- I’m attached to it (har). But it’s trying to leave on it’s own. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/5 "2012-04-20T23:31:17Z")
I sure hope it’s still in there, or this whole trying to conceive thing is going to take a _lot_ longer. There are a lot of youngish Doper women - what demographic do you want responses from? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/6 "2012-04-20T23:35:16Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > There are a lot of youngish Doper women - what demographic do you want responses from? All ages, please. ---
**Author:** ![BTEzra04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@BTEzra04](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BTEzra04)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/7 "2012-04-20T23:47:07Z")
Yes, I do. (I’m in my 20’s, if that helps you any) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/8 "2012-04-20T23:51:09Z")
I still have all my parts. I’m 42. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/9 "2012-04-20T23:54:04Z")
1. Still possess uterus, lacking an ovary. ---
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Battye](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sandra_battye/32/552_2.png) [@Sandra\_Battye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandra_Battye)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/10 "2012-04-21T00:03:08Z")
Had a full hysterectomy (tubes, ovaries and uterus) due to uterine cancer. Glad to be rid of it (and would have been happy to be rid of it at 20 but no one will remove a healthy uterus.) 53 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/11 "2012-04-21T00:13:19Z")
I’m curious as to what ‘Doper (Born) Women’ means. I’m a Doper, which by default means I’m actually Born I guess. And given that the message was posted on the SDMB, only Dopers are going to reply. And being a Woman also means that at some point in my life I have had a uterus. IOW, is there some secret meaning that I’m not getting? 😃 Oh, yes, full uterus and ovaries 52, post menopause. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/12 "2012-04-21T00:16:09Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I’m curious as to what ‘Doper (Born) Women’ means. I’m a Doper, which by default means I’m actually Born I guess. And given that the message was posted on the SDMB, only Dopers are going to reply. And being a Woman also means that at some point in my life I have had a uterus. > > IOW, is there some secret meaning that I’m not getting? 😃 I assumed she was referring to Dopers who were born as women, IOW not transgendered. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/13 "2012-04-21T00:19:41Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I assumed she was referring to Dopers who were born as women, IOW not transgendered. Ahhh, that makes sense!! Thankyew 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/14 "2012-04-21T00:24:02Z")
I was spayed at age 27 due to intractable pain and bleeding. I had already had a child. I retained my ovaries and went through menopause at the normal time. It was healthy, but folded in such a way that It needed to come out. ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/15 "2012-04-21T00:28:44Z")
Full hysterectomy at age 39, I’m 51 now. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/16 "2012-04-21T00:49:16Z")
Yup. Want it? Never used, no plans to use it. But it’s 44 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/17 "2012-04-21T00:55:25Z")
35, still got mine. Thus far it’s given me no reason to think of evicting it. I hope it never does. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/18 "2012-04-21T00:55:55Z")
TAH in January 2011. I’m 53. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/19 "2012-04-21T01:12:01Z")
50, had them removed with extreme prejudice and never been happier. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465/20 "2012-04-21T01:13:23Z")
Yes, although not willingly. My periods are still heavy even after an ablation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-born-women-do-you-still-have-your-uterus/619465.md?page=2)