Heh. Well, what do you know? I had forgotten about this thread. Thanks Nancy and everyone. As it turns out, we stopped having insurance right around the time this decision needed to be made, so I guess the decision made me instead of the other way around.

What I ended up doing is trying to stay away from foods containing substances that act like estrogen in the body (although I can have some - I just need to use them sparingly), and using a very small amount of both progesterone and estrogen cream daily (I mean a very small amount), and biology just took care of the rest (ahem... some of the processes have ceased). I got a new doctor, too, shortly after I started this thread, and he wasn't quite so insistent about cutting out any of my parts. The original doctor ended up getting rid of all of his patients who used insurance to pay their medical bills, and now he just does cosmetic types of procedures, like botox and stuff. Maybe he wanted to spay me just to make a few extra bucks.