At Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Tonya Fleming wrote:
>
>Hi Tiffany,
>
>Good to have you with us. I recently was told that I needed a hysterectomy
>too. But with adhesions (scar tissue), if you do take out the uterus, there
>is a great possibility that you could end up with much more adhesions. My
>gyno told me about a new procedure to stop the bleeding completely without
>the hyst. It's called NovaSure. I'm going in for this procedure next
>Friday. What they do is put a tube inside of your cervex (it will be
>dialated first) and they send up a mesh that actually coterizes the inside
>of the uteran lining. In layman's terms, it cooks the inside so that you
>will not bleed any more or if you do, it will be so light with out the
>cramps. But BE WARE: YOU CAN NOT HAVE MORE CHILDREN WITH THIS PROCEDURE!
>I have my son and am not able to have more anyways, so I'm doing this to
>save myself the agony of more surgery and possibly more adhesions. If you
>need more info, look on a search engine for "NOVESURE". It will tell you
>all about it. Most women have only discomfort for about a day or two after,
>as my doctor told me, and then it's over for life. Very non-invasive!
>
>I hope that this helps. I have never heard of going on birth control to
>stop the adhesion pain, but it makes sense to me, because if you aren't
>cramping as much, (birth control pills lesson the agony of menstual cramping
>for some patients), I can see how it might not add to the "already" pain
>from the adhesions. Adhesions will hurt no matter what if you are prone to
>it, but it could help during your monthly cycle.
>
>Stay with us and know that you can get some of the greatest info from this
>site. Until a couple of months ago, I thought that I suffered alone with
>this horrible disease. I didn't know that other people got this. I really
>thought that I was the only one. I thought I had some rare disease which
>made adhesions grow. It was good to find that I am not alone, although, I
>wish that my friends on here weren't in pain. I wouldn't wish this on
>anyone. (not even my X hubby and I can't stand him) LOL.
>
>Take care of yourself and hopefully this has helped,
>Tonya
>
>>From: TLDunbar25@aol.com (Tiffany)
>>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>>Subject: any success with birth control for adhesions?
>>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:36:02 -0600
>>
>>My dr. put me on birth control pills for my adhesions, saying it will
>>help my uterus quit contracting so much,.my question is I have alot of
>>scar tissue surrounding my uterus could this possibly help...if there is
>>any good news please let me know....good news would be nice to hear, but
>>if there isn't it won't surprise me.....thankyou for your time...
>>
-- Tonya Fleming