Endometrial Polyps

Have any of your women ever had surgery for uterine polyps? I was trying to avoid surgery (hysteroscopic resection), but the bleeding has just gotten too bad. I'd like to know if there's anyone else who has gone through this. My surgery will be April 6, and I have a lot of fear of surgery from past bad experiences.

I have had it once and it was very simple, actually I didn't even take a general anesthesy. It was simple, quick and next day I was home.

I would certainly have the surgery, I never had much bleeding, but lots of clotting (I don't know if this is how you call the coagulated blood present in the menstrual blood) and that disappeared completely for a while. They may come back though, and in my case maybe I have some new ones, but nothing that is disturbing my life right now.

Thanks, Maria. They are putting me to sleep for the procedure, and I don't know why I have to be put completely to sleep. I didn't know why it was so much worse than the hysteroscopy or the endometrial biopsy, which needed no anesthesia.

I asked to see the whole procedure (morbid, huh?) that's why they didn't give me a general anesthesy, but I am sure it's much better if you are not conscious the whole time. Some cramps after is what you are going to have, but they should give you some medication for that.
It's really a very simple thing!

Ooohhh, Maria, you're brave! Anyway, thank you so much for your posts....you've helped to alleviate some of my fears. I appreciate it.

I had the surgery yesterday. It was a piece of cake. Thank you for helping to alleviate a great deal of my fear!

I am so happy for you! My mother had endometriosis and had to have a full hysterectomy when she was about 35. I had a little bit, too, but my gynecologist watched it closely and said that it would probably go away with menopause, which it seems to have done, luckily. He can't feel it any more.

Thank you, Sally, Maria and Patricia. I am sooooo glad that I had it done. I had put it off for more than a year (1 1/2 years) due to my fear of surgery and also my belief that lots of surgeries are unnecessary. At first the doctors thought that I had a submucosal fibroid tumor, and I read that they can shrink or disappear with menopause. I told the doctor that I preferred to wait and to use natural progesterone cream in the meantime. I went back after a year and had another hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsy at which time the doctor saw that there were actually two polyps and that one of them (the original) had doubled in size, so......to be safe, I had it done. Now I'm waiting to make sure that they were benign, but they most likely were.

Sally, it's really sad about your friends. I lost a friend to cervical cancer and she said that she wished more than anything in the world that she wouldn't have skipped those 2 years of pap smears. It was too late by the time they found it.

Pap smears are really important, I never miss my appointement.

Patricia, endometriosis is such a problem, isn't it? The biggest cause of infertility and also a great cause of menstrual pain. It may even lead to acute peritonitis! But it's different from polyposis, as I think you know.

One thing many women don't know is that fibroids NEVER become malignant. That's already good news!

One thing many women don't know is that fibroids NEVER become malignant. That's already good news! [/B][/QUOTE]


.......and uterine polyps? Is it true that there's only a very slight chance of them being malignant? What about the fact that there were more than one?

They are benign but polyps can always turn malignant.

Have a look at this link:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=53C29EC0-3140-4C61-85E84078BB02E79E

It's very easy to understand!:)

Thanks, Maria. I'm just glad that I got them out! Due to the fact that I'd thought I had a fibroid tumor, I wasn't in a hurry to do anything about it - I was going to wait until after menopause and see if they'd shrink. When I learned that they were polyps, I read a little about them and decided that I wanted those things out! Now I'm waiting for the results from the lab.