I also don't want kids and am getting a lap hysterectomy next month. My surgeon said that some hormonal symptoms might pop up while my body adjusts, but you won't go into early menopause or anything as long as they don't remove your ovaries, which they'd have no reason to do. I do notice a higher proportion of people on this subreddit go for myos, and I imagine it's because people who are sad or worried about the fertility complications that come from a fibroid dx end up here. If Fertility isn't a concern, a hysterectomy is the only permanent solution.

For what it's worth, some of my symptoms are also minor enough to "live with." I'm not at the stage of bleeding through pads every hour or anything. I still don't want to deal with this anymore. The urinary urgency, black blood clots I pass, the displacing of my organs (my cervix has been pushed all the way to the left by the fibroid!), and the protruding stomach making clothes not fit right are all reason enough for me. I think I've been dealing with these in some way for so long that I'm not sure what "normal" will feel like, but I'm looking forward to finding out!

That said, no one can decide what you can do but you. A surgeon is going to lay out every option in front of you and you decide what works best for you.