Endometrial ablation - any experience?

[fortyplus]

I went for a follow up visit to my consultant on saturday - i had hysteroscopy & polypectomy a couple of weeks ago. He has asked me to go back in 3 months with a view to undergoing endometrial ablation by a 'Novasure' device. I've looked it up on the internet & it's low risk, very effective and usually performed under local anaesthetic.
My family is complete (I'm 45 in any case, so am hopefully pretty much infertile already!)
I wondered if anyone in the medical profession has any further advice, or whether anyone had undergone this procedure.

Thanks

anyone?

no one? Only me??

Bumping hopefully...

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Thanks - there's lots on the internet about it. Tell your Mum to look up 'Novasure endometrial ablation'. The makers of the device list all sorts of scary possible side effects such as perforation of uterus, thermal damage to other internal organs, infection and death!!!! But I guess they're just covering themselves against American lawsuits, because I went on to find details of 5 studies of women who'd undergone the process. Not one had had any enduring adverse effects.
I was hoping I might hear from someone with personal experience - either as patient or doctor.

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Hi. I can hopefully give you some positives on this topic. I went to see a gynaecologist about 2 years ago due to my heavy and painful periods. Was at the point of wanting a hysterectomy and thye interfered with life so much. Was put off by the recovery time. DD and DS were 6 and 2 at the time. He was a fab fab man and offered me an endometrial ablation as an alternative. I had it on May 18th 2005 and it has been THE best thing EVER! Had the op under general as a day sugery patient. Had a dreadful headache as a result of the anaesthetic and slight watery discharge for about 5 days. Very short recovery time - fine by the next day, really. And the best part for me...no periods since then. At all. Obviously, I can't have any more babies but I had such bad PND after DS that it was never an option anyway. So 100% in favour of it! Hope that helps!

My sister had it.

She said it's the BEST thing EVER.

She's 40 next month, well done w/childbearing - her kids are preteens.

Changed her life and revived her marriage, IFYKWIM.

She had heavy bleeding w/no known cause.

She had it performed in teh US as outpatient/day surgery under regional block - epidural - w/IV sedation.

The US does a lot of surgeries under regional block b/c it's cheaper and less risky and you can go home.

She was back on her feet in about 3 days and never looked back.

Search the archives for earlier this year - there is a MN-er who had this treatment this summer.....

One of my best friends had it in the summer for heavy bleeding due to fibroids. She's 48 and a grandmother.

She was anaemic due to heavy bleeding and having a horrible time.

Again, she is very, very pleased w/the results.

Hello, I had this done under GA by whatever fancy name the thin jet of hot water version is called, in August, fortyplus.
The op went fine, I had no problems after, but it has not stopped my periods entirely (not that I wanted this).
It has made them less heavy and shorter. I was surprised at how long the post-op spotting went on - light and very occasional for weeks! I queried this with the consultant and he said this was not unusual.
My procedure was supposed to be polypectomy followed by EA but...they couldn't find the polyp. Hiding in my Pouch of Douglas I fear.
They do a histology analysis, so although we are not in the higher risk age bracket for endometrial cancer, you get the reassurance of that too.

Hello there Blu!