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Originally Posted by missypea  I agree with staying in the hospital part. I just want to get it done and go home. 
My gyno is a true patient advocate so she agreed that I would be the first surgery of the day and she promised to remove the catheter by 6:00 PM that evening. The deal is the minute I am able to pee, I get to go home. I hope to be out of there by 9:00........
The scariest part for me is that I won't be able to pee, have to be re-cathed and spend the night in the hospital.
Exactly. Women know what it feels like to have cramps, bleed, be hormonal, etc. You really don't get it until you've lived it.
.......I would really do some research on this too, Ten. If you're at risk for developing more polyps and having the bleeding start up again, you should look into other options while you have the insurance coverage.
What are the chances of it recurring? If the cervix is cauterized will the polyps grow somewhere else and put you back at square one? |
Naw, I've researched it pretty carefully- I've known about this for over a year, remember- I found out about that first one at Planned Parenthood in March 2007.
It really does seem that they're not that big a deal, as far as health risks go; apparently mine are more symptomatic than most, though, because not everyone
bleeds with them, or has any symptoms at all.
The websites I've read say most polyps are discovered during routine annual gyn exams; a sizeable minority are discovered when women make appointments because of postcoital bleeding, which is the most common symptom of them.
I guess my thing is, there's really no chance that they'll go
away on their own. At least not until menopause, which could be a long time.
They might stay the same, or they might get a whole lot bigger and worse.
But they aren't going to get better on their own.
If there was a chance of that, I wouldn't do anything, I'd just take a wait and see approach.
But as it is, there's nothing to wait for; they aren't going to just spontaneously improve or go away.
From what I understand from talking to the doctor, if I get this procedure, they won't grow back again in the same spot, because it will be cauterized; although they might grow back in a different spot, in which case I'd have to have the procedure all over again to get rid of them.
Or they might not grow back.
Apparently, if they're on your endometrium, it's a little easier to treat; they just do a D&C-type procedure, and scrape them out. In tough cases, where they keep growing back, they can cauterize the inside of your uterus (although again, you can't get pregnant after that).
But that type of polyps- (the endometrial type) is also more dangerous; they can occasionally lead to endometrial cancer. These cervical ones, apparently, are rarely to never malignant.
So that's a relief; but it still doesn't solve the basic problem, which is that these symptoms are pretty hard to live with.