Just my opinion, but my sister had terrible fibroids, bleeding, etc. She had a hysterectomy and the left her ovaries. Not a problem since. That was many years ago, so there have been many new, good developments since then. Out of my mother's four daughters, I am the only one who hasn't had a hysterectomy. I've had a Heck of a time with menopause though. Almost psychotic the first year 2008. Finally on hormones, antianxiety, antidepressants, became diabetic, got high cholesterol. If I could have stopped all that by having a hysterectomy you can bet I would have. I still need to add I STILL 8 years later, every medicine to stop it later, have terrible anxiety, depression, hot flashes where I put my head in the freezer, etc. Yes, to avoid all this, they could have had my uterus. Fibroids will make you bleed non stop. Not sure how they can remove the fibroids w/o a hysterectomy. But as I said, new, good developments have happened since my sister's. Maybe laser treatment??