Holly Bridges Three years ago, I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids (non-cancerous tumours facing 1 in 4 women and are the leading cause of hysterectomy in Canada) and told that hysterectomy was my only option.
Today, I am pain-free and period-free, with all my reproductive organs intact, thanks to a gynecologist I found through
my own research, who performed two of the most high tech, state-of-the-art procedures available in the world today – a hysteroscopic myomectomy and hysteroscopic endometrial ablation. Women should not have to rely on their own detective skills to get the best possible outcomes for the medical conditions that threaten their well-being.
So what?
Every year in North America, some 700,000 women (650,000 American and 50,000 Canadian) undergo hysterectomy and of those, 60 and 80 per cent of those hysterectomies are medically unnecessary, performed for benign conditions such as uterine fibroids, cysts, polyps, adenomyosis and the most crippling of all benign conditions, endometriosis.
The reason I am so passionate about helping women become more aware of minimally invasive medical and surgical options is they present outcomes for women that are:
Less painful Less risky Less invasive Less expensive
I wrote The UnHysterectomy and started my online community as a resource for women to learn, connect and share about their own [...] continue the story
