Re: sex and age of ob/gyns, laura's hmo, other women push hyst, prevention magazine

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Pat,

I agree about telling younger docs what you want. Docs near my own age are

more intimidating. The male gynos near my age would only consider hyst. I

have a younger (30's), male gyno who really listens, takes a lot of time when

you

need it. He is very pro-UFE, understands my anti-hyst feelings. I have had

a female PCP nearer my age who didn't listen to anything and tried to push

hyst even before my fibroids were symptomatic.

I will be meeting with the IR tomorrow afternoon. Sadly, his nurse told me

that he has reservations about how much benefit I will get from the procedure.

We will discuss this of course at our meeting. I am assuming that it is

because I am 52 years old, have at least 7 or 8 intramural fibroids and a large

uterus (don't have my figures with me). I will be happy with less bleeding and

reduction of the pressure on my bladder and bowels. I do not expect to have

them all disappear. I have really decided to give it a try.

, calm down (I know its hard), keep fighting. They have no business

forcing a hyst on anyone not suffering from cancer, let alone a 29 year old

woman. I am 52 and have had fibroids since my mid 20's. I have not had

horrible

symptoms most of the time. When I had very heavy bleeding it was found to by

caused by 2 polyps, once they were removed during a d&c the extreme bleeding

stopped.

Today I mentioned to a 60ish female acquiantance that i was planning a UFE

and explained what it was, the first thing out of her mouth was why not just

have it all out like she did back in her 30's for fibroids. Now this is a woman

who believes very strongly in homeopathy and dietary means of fixing problems

and yet her first thought was life-altering, invasive, risky surgery.

Quickly, I was at work in an office full of people, I explained a few of my

objections to hyst and she seemed to see my point and said she would pray for

me.

Anybody read Prevention? Once again they are not showing the kind of

attitude toward the treatment of fibroids that I would like to see. This month

they

have an article called " 25 Trade Secrets from Top OB/GYNS " . They do warn that

you should be careful about docs pushing hyst to reduce bleeding. They are

very vague about other treatments. They refer to " hormone therapies " and

" technologically advanced outpatient procedures (one uses heat to destroy the

lining of the uterus) " and birth control pills. Aren't birth control pills

hormone

therapy? As for their technological advances, why not list ablation, UFE,

FUS, and myos so their readers could educate themselves about these?

Then we get to avoiding fibroids. So ladies guess what we ALL did wrong? We

ALL got fat. Yep, the way to avoid fibroids is to not gain excess weight. I

will admit that I am currently FAT, much to my dismay. However, I am firmly

convinced that my first fibroid formed in my late 20's when I was about 5'6 "

tall and 145lbs. My mother had her hyst at age 39 (for fibroids) when she was

5'9 " tall and had never weighed more than 140.

OK, OK,

enough from me tonight,

P.