If you have birth control device. Some also release the hormone progestin. It won’t shrink your fibroids. But it can control the bleeding and cramping that they cause.
What Procedures Might Work?
There are several possibilities that you and your doctor can consider.
- Fibroid embolization can shrink a fibroid. Your doctor will inject polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into the that feed the fibroid. The PVA blocks the blood supply to the fibroid, which makes it shrink. It’s not surgery, but you may need to spend several nights in the hospital because you may have , vomiting, and pain in the first few days afterward.
- is a procedure in which doctors destroy the lining of uterus to cut down on the bleeding linked to small fibroids.
- Myomectomy is a surgery to remove fibroids. If you plan to become , your doctor may recommend this over other procedures. But it may cause scarring that can lead to infertility. You’ll need to wait 4 to 6 months after surgery before you try to conceive. In most women, symptoms go away following a myomectomy. But in others, the fibroids come back. Whether it works will partly depend on how many fibroids you have and whether the surgeon could remove them all. A myomectomy may be abdominal surgery, or your surgeon may use a hysteroscope or laparoscope to remove the fibroids without having to make a large cut on your abdomen. There is also a newer method that uses -guided intense ultrasound energy to pinpoint the fibroids and shrink or destroy them.
- Hysterectomy is surgery to remove the uterus. Many women don’t need treatment that’s this drastic. You won’t be able to get pregnant after this operation.