Re: hysteroscopic resection

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I'm 23 days post-hysteroscopic resection (also called a hysteroscopic

myomectomy). I had the procedure done on a Friday to remove a tennis ball sized

fibriod, and a tiny polyp, and was back to work on Monday. Minor cramping on

Friday, anesthesia grog on Saturday, but otherwise no ill effects from the

surgery.

My last pre-op period I saturated 59 super-plus tampons and several pads. My

first post-op period I used (without saturating) six pads. Since then I've had

minor spotting (probably sloughing off the tissue from the site of the

excision).

I'm thrilled about the it, and from what I can tell, my results are typical - if

you are lucky enough to have the right kind of fibroid. Mine was a single

sub-mucosal fibroid (which I've since found out was also pendunculated). My own

particular tolerance for agreeing to the procedure was one or two submucosal

fibroids. I don't know what the doc's tolerance was - although I do know that

my fibroid was the third or fourth largest she's done this way.

My understanding is that ablation is not a particularly effective means of

controlling bleeding - so I'd question a doctor pretty hard before agreeing to

that procedure as an alternative to removing all the fibroids.

I'd also ask for an office hysterectomy - it's a 15 minute procedure through

which the doctor can visually determine whether your fibroid is a fibroid or a

polyp, and whether your fibroids are the right kind and location for

hysteroscopic resection.

Feel free to e-mail me if you have more questions.

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And she told me that in addition to small fibroids in the

>lining, I have in the uterine cavity a larger fibroid *or polyp*. Polyp?

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> The one option the second doctor offered that sounds good is the

>hysteroscopic resection with endometrial ablation. But at this point it

>sounds too good to be true.

I've searched the archives

>but have found very little from women who have undergone this procedure.

>Have any of you had positive or negative experiences with this? Does the

>fact that my fibroid may or may not be a polyp mean anything?

What would be a realistic recovery time?

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>Thanks,

>Michele

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