Introducing myself..

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I've been lurking for awhile now, and this is my first post. I'm

so glad that this list is here! I'm 42 y.o., and have had fibroids

for about 18 years now. My menstrual bleeding has recently become

intolerable. I'm in the process of changing gyns and pursuing a

surgical option now.

I'd considered having a myomectomy in the past, but have been put

off by the recovery time. I'm now a full time student working on a

career change, and I still have issues with the recovery time of

myomectomy, and am now considering having UAE. The anemia from my

heavy menstrual bleeding makes being a student extraordinarily

difficult, as I just don't have enough energy to meet the demands of

the day.

I came online this morning to ask the question of why some of you

chose the procedures you've had... why myo over UAE, and found that

someone had just asked the same question. Great minds, eh?

I guess my question is, since I now understand that gyns don't do

UAE, how would I go about getting more information? What are the

steps I need to take to see if I'm a good candidate for this?

Thanks in advance for all of your help.. I've been paralyzed with

fear over this for many years.. (I'm tremendously embarrassed to

admit this, by the way).

~Bev

[Guest guest]

Bev, If I was you I would look into the UAE. I am a student to changing my

career at 35 yrs old. and I was going to have hyst, but I found the UAE and

I am planning on having that done. Right now my insurance is giving me a fit

about the procedure. The reason being was I had a hyst schedule and I

cancelled and the same day the insurance got the information about the UAE

and didn't really like the idea. The recovery time for a UAE is a week or

less. I know I had gotten accept into the Physical Therapy Assistant program

for this summer, but after all the problems I was having I had to drop out

of the program and go into it next summer. I had a myo in 1998 and they

removed the tumors and the tumors came back last year and when they did they

came back at full force. I know some women will say they want come back, but

my did and I know some of other women that their tumors came back to. I want

to do the UAE so I want have to have major surgery and I really don't want

to loose my uterus and I still will have a chance at fertility. The first

thing I did, was started calling different IR'S in my area and I never

called my gyn until about two weeks ago and told him. The first thing the IR

will want to do is a MRI to see if you are a candidate or not. I wish you

the best of luck.