 2. Patients will be recruited at the outpatient clinic when a decision is made for hysterectomy abdominal or laparoscopic on benign indication. They will receive oral information from their gynecologist and an information letter will be handed out a telephone number will be stated which patients can call for extra information. On the day of preoperative admission mostly one day preoperative the gynecologist will answer any remaining questions and the informed consent will be signed by both the patient and the gynecologist. Patients on oral contraceptives will stop using these at least two weeks prior to the operation. 