Reply #3: Thanks for the reply.

[tanyev]

When I first posted, I was really frustrated because what my doctor was telling me was not matching up with the claims on the Novasure website.

My problems are not quite as serious as yours, thank goodness (glad you are doing so well now!), but it's just gotten really annoying. My cycle was getting to be 21-24 days and the first 2-3 days were so heavy I didn't want to do anything other than stay home, although I would have to struggle through if it was a workday. The website makes it sound like you can just pop in to your doctor's office and have it done in a matter of minutes.

My doctor does the procedure, but he does it at a hospital under general. And the hospital where he works is not that close to me, since I moved a few years ago. I kept going to him after I moved because I do feel comfortable with him and ordinarily you only go see the gyno once a year. Well, I tried calling some of the medical clinics close to me that I found on the Novasure website. All I wanted to know was if they usually performed the procedure under local or general anesthetic. They, of course, would not answer such a question unless I were one of their patients.

Since then, I have seen my doctor again and I asked him what my chances were of finding a doctor closer to me who did this under local. That's when he told me that since I have never had any kids, probably any doctor I went to would want to put me completely under. Something about the size of the cervix affects how difficult the procedure is.

For now, I am trying low dose estrogen BC pills. I don't think this will be a long term solution for me since my blood pressure was already borderline and these pills seem to be nudging it even higher. My mom finally ended her problems like this with a hysterectomy at age 50. I'm only 42 and I do not want to take hormones for another decade. My decision now is whether to go for the Novasure and D&C and maybe have to do it again in a couple years, or start thinking about a more permanent solution.

Aarrrgh! Why is it so difficult? I think about women in Victorian times who traveled all over the world, or pioneer women who spent their entire lives out in the middle of nowhere. How? How? HOW did they do it?