How do you know that you have problem periods? It’s not normal if your complaints range from missing school, work or if you must schedule vacations and activities around your cycle because your excessive menstrual bleeding rules your life. Symptoms also include pain, fatigue and anemia. If you bleed for more than 7 days, or have to change your sanitary protection every few hours, you may be suffering from excessive menstrual bleeding also known as menorrhagia. Industry sources estimate that one in five women worldwide is affected by excessive menstrual bleeding and that more than one third of the hysterectomies performed each year are prescribed to treat this debilitating condition.

New endometrial ablation treatments have been developed to provide permanent relief from excessive menstrual bleeding while avoiding many of the shortcomings, complications and costs of traditional drug and surgical therapies. These new procedures reduce costs, risks and recovery time when compared with hysterectomy and are generally easier for physicians to perform. In general, these treatments use a surgical device that is inserted through the cervix into the uterus to deliver energy and ablate the endometrium (uterine lining).

Whether you endure days of pain and excessive bleeding or experience unpredictable periods that accompany middle age, there is help. Recent advancements in technology have come up with simple, quick and safe solutions to a problem that accounts for the majority of gynecological office visits scheduled today.

The NovaSure System, which has received FDA approval, is the newest generation of ablation procedures known as global endometrial ablation. This effective outpatient procedure is today's newest alternative to hysterectomy, conventional endometrial ablation and hormone therapy for the treatment of excessive menstrual bleeding. The NovaSure System allows physicians to treat women with excessive menstrual bleeding in a minimally invasive manner to eliminate or reduce their bleeding.

NovaSure uses a slender hand-held device and a controller, which generates and delivers an amount of radiofrequency energy individually determined for each patient. The NovaSure System is designed to permanently eliminate the lining of the uterus in a single 90-second treatment. The entire procedure takes just under 5 minutes. NovaSure is performed on an outpatient basis and does not require general anesthesia, or surgical or drug pre-treatment of the uterine lining. NovaSure is intended for the treatment of menorrhagia due to benign causes in pre-menopausal women who have completed childbearing. 

For more information, please please visit the NovaSure site a www.novasure.com or call our office.

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