Successful Resection Story

May 10, 2004

In case newer members of this group would like to know of

another successful resection, mine, which was done last May,

stopped my excess bleeding immediately. I had a

pendunculated uterine polyp that measured a whopping 9 cm.

removed - it caused tremendous bleeding with clots during the

most harrowing time of my life. My periods have been pretty light

since then - the worst day is the first real day, as I still have other

fibroids and the uterine walls don't do a good job of contracting

to regulate blood flow, but it's a vacation compared to what I had

before.

I had to have iron infusions before surgery, to get my hgb to 10.5

and my ferritin stores up - this took 5 weeks, with an infusion

about once a week. I also took a prescription iron supplement

called Anemagen, that has B-12 in it, 3x a day. My ferritin got all

the way up to 188, but then I got another huge period a week

before surgery that dropped me down to 99. I still had my period

the day of the surgery and lost a lot of blood, so I was very glad

to have had the infusions. I had no physical problems or side

effects from the infusions and felt better almost immediately after

the first one. I recommend it to any woman who is severely

anemic and facing surgery. My ferritin just after surgery was

down to the low 40s, so you can see how valuable it was. I

stayed overnight in the hospital after my surgery so they could

monitor my blood levels but went home the next afternoon.

I too heard " hyst " from my first 3 doctors and a hematologist and

it was most upsetting; it took 2 months (in NYC!) to find a skilled

myo surgeon in my plan. Those 2 months were very difficult as

my bleeding increased so much that I could not work and had so

much to learn about fibroids that seemingly appeared overnight.

This group helped me enormously, and gave me the strength to

persevere and fight to keep myself intact. I knew that there had to

be better referrals out there; it took time, but I did find the right

doctor.

Hope this helps someone...

Good luck to all trying to get those fireballs out!

Jan

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