It's for dysmenorrhea and heavy bleeding -- which is to say, what you have, and what I had. (I was bleeding two weeks out of four, enough that I was having trouble with vaginal infections from the constant presence of menses.)
When it goes as planned, it's a very simple procedure -- you go in, get put under twilight sleep, come home, have a day or two of heavy cramping (about like I remember from having an IUD installed), take the nice vicodin, and that's that.
I had complications: it turned out that the interior of my uterus was kind of hourglass-shaped (probably scar tissue from the c-sections), and the first ablation only got the bottom half... and sealed up the neck, so that fluids accumulated in there and got infected over the course of several months. Once they figured out what was wrong, which took a while, they did a second ablation with hot water, which was pretty painful for a few days. Since then, though, there has been no bleeding at all, and only minimal other symptoms (mood swings, breast tenderness, the usual).
Normally, however, it is a very quick and safe procedure with minimal pain. Well worth considering if you're as uncomfortable as it sounds.
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Date: 2009-03-25 10:51 pm (UTC)When it goes as planned, it's a very simple procedure -- you go in, get put under twilight sleep, come home, have a day or two of heavy cramping (about like I remember from having an IUD installed), take the nice vicodin, and that's that.
I had complications: it turned out that the interior of my uterus was kind of hourglass-shaped (probably scar tissue from the c-sections), and the first ablation only got the bottom half... and sealed up the neck, so that fluids accumulated in there and got infected over the course of several months. Once they figured out what was wrong, which took a while, they did a second ablation with hot water, which was pretty painful for a few days. Since then, though, there has been no bleeding at all, and only minimal other symptoms (mood swings, breast tenderness, the usual).
Normally, however, it is a very quick and safe procedure with minimal pain. Well worth considering if you're as uncomfortable as it sounds.