r/comics • u/radfilth • Jul 31 '26

OC Some Medical "Professionals" Be Like [OC]

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u/SeptimusShadowking Aug 01 '26

Hmm, but what if your uterus spontaneously regrew? - The doctors

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u/tetralogy-of-fallout Aug 01 '26

There is something to this actually. With a total hysterectomy, your ovaries remain. (A radical hysterectomy is where they take everything). If the surgeon happens to fuck up removing and closing off the cervical area, you could potentially end up with an abdominal pregnancy. Of course the actual likelihood of that is infintesimal and I assume there would be other concerning signs before you end up pregnant.

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u/Dx-Human_NOS Aug 01 '26

I mean yeah i also tell them i got a bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy but they never listen to that either lol

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u/tetralogy-of-fallout Aug 01 '26

Yeah the likelihood that the surgeon doing that removal left a piece of the ovary reduces that infintesimal number even further. My only thought is that it's required by the insurance company for anyone who was born with a uterus between 12-55 which is fucking stupid.

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u/Ajibooks Aug 01 '26

Oh, is 55 the cutoff? I went through menopause a few years ago at about 47 and I've been wondering why I keep having to take pregnancy tests, and if 80-year-old AFABs have to deal with this too. (Also haven't had that kind of sex in about 20 years (lesbian)...)

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u/tetralogy-of-fallout Aug 01 '26

I don't remember, honestly, I was going off of my familial history where all my maternal relatives went through it in their 50s