Saturday, November 3, 2007

treatment for upnormal bleeding

Treatment

Treatment for abnormal menstrual will depend on many factors, including the cause, your age, the severity of the bleeding, and whether you want to have children. Treatments include use of birth control pills or hormones, hysteroscopic removal of polyps or fibroids, endometrial ablation, and hysterectomy.

Hormones

Your doctor may prescribe birth control pills to help your periods to be more regular. They also may improve other symptoms. Progesterone can help prevent and treat endometrial hyperplasia (abnormal thickening of the lining of the uterus).

Other Medications

Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, like ibuprofen and naproxen, may help control heavy bleeding.

Surgery

Some women with abnormal menstrual bleeding may need to have surgery to remove growths (such as polyps or fibroids) that are causing the bleeding.

Endometrial ablation also is used to treat abnormal menstrual bleeding. Resection of the lining of the uterus, ablating it with cautery, or heating the inside of the uterus to close the blood vessels shut are excellent minimally invasive procedures to control abnormal uterine bleeding.

Hysterectomy, or the removal of the uterus, is another procedure that may be used to treat abnormal vaginal bleeding. This can be accomplished laparoscopically with very small incisions on your abdomen. This can also be done in the traditional "open" manner with a large abdominal incision. For those with pre-cancerous or cancerous change, a hysterectomy is standard. A hysterectomy is a major surgery.

Finally ...

If you notice that your menstrual cycles have become irregular, see your doctor. Abnormal bleeding has a number of causes. There is no way of telling why your bleeding is abnormal until your doctor examines you. Once the cause is found, abnormal bleeding often can be treated with great success using minimally invasive procedures in an outpatient or office setting.

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