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Hello RMGreen17

I have been going through the same thing this month. I have a best friend who has been going through it a little longer than me. Her fibriod is about the size of yours but she has no kids yet. Mines was the size of a lemon and I have 2 boys, might have wanted a girl.

I will go in on the 22 for the same incision. The embolization thing only works good when they are smaller same as the birth control method. it also depends on the placement of them. I agree with you that if anything comes back cancerous I would go for the hysterectomy. But I would make sure they leave the ovaries for the hormones.
I heard the hormone therapy is rough. Ask any older women who is in menopause. A lot opt out of hormone replacement because of the bad side effects and extreme issues.

If they can do a partial hysto- or a myectomy go for it.
I also agree with the change in eating for forward thinking.

You are not alone.

Peace & Blessings

Sisters, Does anyone know of

Sisters,

Does anyone know of any options for treating fibroids that won't prevent one from having children?

"Don't let your focus change" ~~ E. Badu

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I have been suffering from fibroids for years now, and the time has come for me to do something drastic before I end up not even BEING here at all. Last week I was shopping in the supermarket and began hemmorrhaging so badly, you would have thought I was stabbed. My fibroids were acting like sponges within me, and when the weight of material became to great to bear, it let loose all at once. I now have little choice but to seek surgical relief. I am to hear about any other options I may have on this coming Friday, and I will post again after the visit to tell you what I have learned., but I do know that orthoscopic surgery is now available, as well as drugs that may be able to shrink or eject them from the body, but I certainly seek a less invasive tretment if at all possible.

I will keep you posted. Peace & Blessings, my Sister!l

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I had fibroids several years ago and my doctor was talking about a hysterectomy. I was adamantly against it so I asked for a second opinion. That's when I discovered uterine emobolization. I opted for that procedure and it was a success! Here's an article that may help you:

A nonsurgical treatment for uterine fibroids, known as uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), has a five-year success rate of 73 percent, according to a new study involving 182 women.

"Some gynecologists have been waiting for long-term data before being comfortable recommending the UFE procedure, and now that we have that data, I think patients will be hearing more about UFE as a nonsurgical option," principal investigator Dr. James B. Spies, professor of interventional radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, said in a prepared statement.

The study was presented Friday at the annual scientific meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology, in New Orleans. The Georgetown team presented similar findings at last year's meeting.

Uterine fibroids are common benign growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus. About 40 percent of American women 35 and older develop these growths each year, resulting in about 200,000 hysterectomies annually.

UFE is an interventional radiology treatment that blocks the blood supply to fibroid tumors, causing them to shrink and die. Because it's minimally invasive, the treatment offers a faster recovery time than surgery and preserves the uterus -- two factors that have made UFE increasingly popular.

"The [study] results are comparable to myomectomy, a procedure in which the fibroids are surgically removed, but UFE is less invasive, and women recover from it more quickly," Spies said.

"With any of the uterine-sparing treatments, growth of new fibroids is possible," he noted, "and we saw this occurring in some patients during the later part of the follow-up in this study." However, Spies added, "the same phenomenon is seen with myomectomy, with re-intervention rates in the same range."

"The next step in fibroid research is to design direct comparative studies between the various therapies to provide data as to which patients are best suited for each treatment," he said.

SOURCE: Society of Interventional Radiology, news release, March 23, 2005

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Thank you for this information Sister! I believe that was one of the options that my doctor has given me, I just forgot waht the name of the procedure was.

I am going to have my biopsy done in the morning, and as long as it comes back negative for cancer and other diseses, I will opt for this less invasive procedure which leaves my uterus intact. Now that I have heard of it from you, and you report that it was a success for you, then I feel much better about things. I will keep you posted on how things are going!

HOTEP!

Michele