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Endometrial balloon ablationFrom: Aly (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 8 Mar 2001 18:32:15 -0600 (CST)
I am scheduled to have endometrial balloon ablation on the 19th of this month. I have always had extremely heavy bleeding and painful cramping during periods which seem to have increased with age. My Doctor has tried several drugs to slow down bleeding/stop bleeding. The last attempt was the depo shot. The first month after I took it I had no period at all and thought it was a god-send. Then I started bleeding on November 7 and am still doing so on March 8. I stopped counting at 100 days - who knows how long now. He is now going to do this balloon procedure and seems to feel that it will work to stop my bleeding. My question though is that I also have fibroids which are quite painful, and even through this whole depo episode I have had pain for several days a month (my guess is when I'm ovulating). Now this procedure is not going to help this is it? I really am trying to avoid having a hysterectomy as I am only 42 and quite frankly not ready to part with my female organs yet. He seems to believe that we have a 50/50 chance of this working - although I have read statistics as high as 80% success. Is there some standard they use to set these statistics? I really don't want to end up having to have 2 surgeries. I am also a diabetic so I realize that in several years I will be less healthy than I am now. Should I just do the hysterectomy and get it over with - or just hope for the best where this balloon procedure is concerned?
-- Aly
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