Good to have you with us. I recently was told that I needed a hysterectomy too. But with adhesions (scar tissue), if you do take out the uterus, there is a great possibility that you could end up with much more adhesions. My gyno told me about a new procedure to stop the bleeding completely without the hyst. It's called NovaSure. I'm going in for this procedure next Friday. What they do is put a tube inside of your cervex (it will be dialated first) and they send up a mesh that actually coterizes the inside of the uteran lining. In layman's terms, it cooks the inside so that you will not bleed any more or if you do, it will be so light with out the cramps. But BE WARE: YOU CAN NOT HAVE MORE CHILDREN WITH THIS PROCEDURE! I have my son and am not able to have more anyways, so I'm doing this to save myself the agony of more surgery and possibly more adhesions. If you need more info, look on a search engine for "NOVESURE". It will tell you all about it. Most women have only discomfort for about a day or two after, as my doctor told me, and then it's over for life. Very non-invasive!
I hope that this helps. I have never heard of going on birth control to stop the adhesion pain, but it makes sense to me, because if you aren't cramping as much, (birth control pills lesson the agony of menstual cramping for some patients), I can see how it might not add to the "already" pain from the adhesions. Adhesions will hurt no matter what if you are prone to it, but it could help during your monthly cycle.
Stay with us and know that you can get some of the greatest info from this site. Until a couple of months ago, I thought that I suffered alone with this horrible disease. I didn't know that other people got this. I really thought that I was the only one. I thought I had some rare disease which made adhesions grow. It was good to find that I am not alone, although, I wish that my friends on here weren't in pain. I wouldn't wish this on anyone. (not even my X hubby and I can't stand him) LOL.
Take care of yourself and hopefully this has helped, Tonya
>From: TLDunbar25@aol.com (Tiffany)
>Reply-To: adhesions@adhesions.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Subject: any success with birth control for adhesions?
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:36:02 -0600
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>My dr. put me on birth control pills for my adhesions, saying it will
>help my uterus quit contracting so much,.my question is I have alot of
>scar tissue surrounding my uterus could this possibly help...if there is
>any good news please let me know....good news would be nice to hear, but
>if there isn't it won't surprise me.....thankyou for your time...
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