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Re: FIBROIDSFrom: Christine (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:58:07 -0600 (CST)
At Mon, 29 Nov 1999, LYDIA wrote: > >I am seeking advice. > >I am a 53 year old African American female with fibroids that were >diagnozed approximately 10 years ago. At that time, the physician >stated because of my age and the closeness of the onset of menopause to >do nothing. Apparently the fibroids continued to grow and my menstrual >became very heavy. My current Ob/Gyn says the fibroids are the size of >a 4 month pregnancy. > >Last year my hemoglobin count was 7.8 and I had to receive a blood >transfusion. My count this year was 5.8 -- again I had to be >transfused. My current Ob/Gyn (I have managed care) is recommending >hysterectomy. > >While my primary care physician is concerned about the anemia and has >indicated I cannot continue to get transfusions, because of my age I am >reluctant to have such an invasive surgery because my menstrual has >decreased in flow of late. Hi! I don't know what Dr. M will say on this but all I can say is that a hemaglobin as low as you have is *very very low*. You must feel terrible. Sometimes you can compensate when your hemoglobin gets low and the patient doesn't feel as badly as you would expect, but yours is probably dropping suddenly. I know, because I had this same problem but I was only 36. They tried to control it with hormones and they had me on 3 iron pills a day but this was before all the less invasive things they can do with fibroids that they can do now. My hematocrit dropped from 30 to 21 in 3 days (to a hemoglobin of 7 something) and I know I felt lousy. Chris S.
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