Hi civilgal,
I went on a research bindge............LOL. I looked into every procedure that was mentioned. When I went to the hospital, I had a file of pages from web sites I had gone to. Everytime he said something, I asked "well, what about this?"
The procedure sounds wonderful, the newness scares me. I am not sure that something that is so new, without yrs of follow up is the best for some people. I mean, they go into the femoral artery with a catheter. It loops up and around to the uterus. They inject small sand size particles into you and it clogs up the fibroids so they don't get blood, they shrink (because they thrive and live on blood) and there you have it, they can shrink, even totally go away. Now, sorry, I know that was a WAY basic laypersons interpratation of it, but it is the basics.
This is less then 10 yrs old, most places, less then 5. Yes, they will tell you they have been doing it for 20, but noone seems to be able to get me followups from those old cases.
They will not do it at my hospital if you are thinking about ever having children. There is a possibility that it can screw up the ovaries. There is a small (1% chance) of woman who have this may still need to have a hyst. after all due to complications.
Anyway, I never planned on having "human" children, I have my birds, dogs and cats, and plan to foster when we move upstate. I had told my older sisters once that if they were "out of childbaring (sp??) yrs" and wanted me to carry a child for them, I would have. WELL..........sisters ( I mean my real ones) guess what? With the cramps I have had, the pain I have been thru, I can't begin to imagine what it is like to go thru a pregnancy.....
The freezing one sounds interesting.....
Good luck with what ever method you choose.
doreen
Embolization
