UFE Opened A Whole New World Of Options – Helena

My lifestyle, before the UFE, was…I didn’t really have a lot of symptoms. What I did notice in my early thirties, when I started having cramps once a month, each month each year, the cramps got worse and worse and worse. I got to the point that I was taking ibuprofen for the pain, and finally I started taking prescription ibuprofen for the pain, it was just unbearable.

By the time I got into my forties, they had invented Aleve. I started taking Aleve and that seemed to help, but I was taking like six Aleve a day for two days in a row, when the pain, the menstrual cramp pains were so bad.

I think the first time I understood that I had fibroids was when I was out on a concert tour with a musical artist. I was in my bunk and I happened to feel a lump in my stomach. I was a little alarmed, I wasn’t that concerned about it. I thought, well, when I get back home, which was probably going to be a couple months, I was going to have to go to the doctor and find out what that was, because it was on the right side, but it wasn’t on the left side, so I knew it didn’t belong there.

I had fibroids. In my particular case they were on a stem. They weren’t really attached to my uterus, but they were outside my uterus. They were going to continue to grow….and that was how I found out that I had them.

The way I felt when I had fibroids was I just noticed that my stomach was getting larger. Pretty soon I finally had that four month pregnancy look which I didn’t find very flattering at all. I noticed they were getting larger and larger, so I thought, okay, I’ve got to do something.

I did notice that I started to get lower back pain which I had attributed to the fibroids and I did have heavy, heavy, heavy bleeding. I had no other forms of treatment before the UFE. I had no Lupron, I had nothing.

Once I found out about the UFE procedure, it was very easy. The options that were given to me at the time I found out that I had fibroids was a hysterectomy or have them cut out. I was advised by my doctor that if I had them cut out, that they would just grow back again.

When I found out about the UFE procedure, I wanted to find out more about it. I said this was something that sounded like that was an alternative for me.

The decision for me, between a hysterectomy or a myomectomy…a hysterectomy was just out of the question. That was not an option for me. The myomectomy was probably what I had settled for. It wasn’t what I wanted. I had decided that that’s was what I would have when it came to that time. But, then when the UFE commercial came on the radio, and I went to the website, it opened up a whole new world, another treatment option that was available to me.

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