Minimally Invasive Gynecology: Heavy Bleeding (Menorrhagia)

Is heavy bleeding limiting your activities, affecting your love life, and causing you to be anemic and tired? Hormones and hysterectomy are not your only options.

Women suffering from menorrhagia (pronounced: men-o-rahj-ah) can experience the embarrassment of accidents, restricted lifestyle activity, or social distress.  More serious, however, they can also suffer fatigue, severe cramping, or anemia.  If this sounds all too common, you know how menorrhagia can disrupt your life.

Heavy bleeding is a recognized medical condition covered by most insurance for which you can seek treatment. Many women think that bleeding heavily for 4 to 5 days or changing their pad every hour is something they have to live with. Others are afraid that the only options are hysterectomy or hormones.

Most women with menorrhagia don't know that heavy bleeding is not normal. It is a recognized medical condition for which they can seek treatment.

Heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated simply, safely and successfully. You and your doctor can come to a treatment decision by assessing the amount and frequency of your bleeding and by looking at how your periods affect your life. Several factors will be important to your decision, including whether or not you plan to have children in the future and whether you want ongoing therapy or a one time treatment.

Now with the one-time endometrial ablation procedure, women can finally find reliable relief from heavy menstrual bleeding safely without the side effects of hormones or a hysterectomy. This procedure lets women take control of their lives and return to their normal routines quickly.

An endometrial ablation procedure is a quick, outpatient procedure that gently removes the endometrial lining from the uterus. This lining (also called the endometrium) is what is shed monthly during your period. The procedure works to control, or in many cases, stop the bleeding.

Endometrial ablation can be done either in an outpatient surgery clinic, or in the doctor's office.

There are very few side effects, and women generally return to work and other normal activities the next day.

Contact us today with questions or to make an appointment with our doctors.