Do it. I had an elective keyhole hysterectomy at what was considered to be a young age (31) as my periods were intolerable due to fibroids and nothing was helping. I was clear that my family was complete and luckily I had a sympathetic consultant / surgeon who was agreeable despite my age. I also had my cervix removed as I had a history of abnormal smear tests, but my ovaries were left intact to prevent immediate menopause.
I was out of hospital the next day and going for gentle walks around the block the day after that. I could have gone back to work at my office job after 2 weeks but came down with tonsillitis during the second week of recovery, which left me feeling far worse that the hysterectomy, so was signed off for a third week to ensure I was also fully recovered from that. I felt guilty as the weather was good and I went back to work with a suntan from spending a lot of my recovery time sat in a neighbours garden with my feet in her paddling pool.
When I left the hospital I was prescribed some hefty pain relief, but found I didn't need any of it. This may be outing, but my husband was working the night I was released from hospital so my mum brought me home and stayed with me until he got back. He gently nudged me awake at 3am to tell me there was a kebab for me in the fridge if I wanted it and I was up and out of that bed and in the kitchen in under 30 seconds. 🤣
The only pain relief I took was some ibuprofen a couple of days after I got home as I had 2 glasses of wine one evening and woke up the next morning with the worst headache I've ever experienced in my life. I think that perhaps the anaesthetic wasn't fully out of my system and didn't play nicely with the alcohol! I was also given laxatives, but I have IBS and didn't want to risk throwing them into the mix so I chose not to take them and had no problems at all in that department.
DH and I waited 6 weeks before sex as recommended, then booked ourselves into a hotel for the night to celebrate the end of the ban. I was nervous, but we were gentle at first and nothing was different for me than before. He said that nothing felt different for him either and our sex life went from strength-to-strength after as I was no longer suffering with my periods.
I did go into "early" menopause at the age of 38, which apparently can happen following this surgery, but I was able to manage it well with HRT. The only other long-term effect I have, which is interesting but not a problem, is that if I have a bath I have to pop a pad in my pants straight after as a few minutes after I get out water comes flooding out of me in a way it never did before. I mentioned it to a doctor in passing who told me that the cervix can act as a sort of stopper and the absence of it means that all the water that goes up has nothing that prevents it from coming down once gravity is at play.
12 years down the line now and absolutely no regrets. I would make the same decision again in an instant if I had to.