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The uterus is normally attached to the pelvic floor. However, the supportive muscles and ligaments can wear and tear during life, allowing the uterus, the bladder or both to “fall” down to the vagina. The reasons for prolapse may be one or more of the following:

– giving birth to large babies, or difficult labor and delivery in general,

– aging,

– less estrogen than usual (as in menopause), which weakens the tissues,

– additional weight or obesity,

– frequent coughing, say from too much smoking,

– chronic constipation and the straining to move bowels.

Symptoms of Uterine Prolapse

Some of the more important symptoms of uterine prolapse may be:

– Heaviness or pulling down in the pelvis.

– Backache.

– Intercourse painful or outright impossible, involuntary leaking during the intercourse, no orgasm.

– Pain in the vagina, pelvis, lower back, lower abdomen, groin. As if the whole abdomen will fall out.

– Frequent urge to urinate, with or without actual urinating.

– Difficult bowel movements.

– Moist discharge from vagina.

Uterine Prolapse Video

Levels of Protrusion

There are three levels of protrusion:

– mild prolapse, when the cervix protrudes into the lower part of vagina,

– moderate prolapse, when the cervix passes through the vaginal opening,

– severe prolapse, when the entire uterus passes through the vaginal opening.

Additional terms of interest are:

– cystocele, the falling of the bladder and the front wall of vagina; may produce urinary tract infections with or without other urinary symptoms;

– rectocele, the rectum and the back wall of vagina fall into vaginal space. May complicate into constipation and hemorrhoids.

Theoretically, but quite rarely, a tumor could be the reason for protrusion.

Treatment for Uterine Prolapse

One idea is to insert a physical object to hold the uterus in place. It takes a form of a ring and is called a pessary. Pessaries come in many shapes and sizes, and the treatment is individual. The results vary. For some women, that is all there is to it, while for many others, a pessary may be plain unusable. It may cause abnormal smelling discharge, inflammation and ulcers, or irritate the vaginal mucosa. It may also limit the depth of penetration during sexual intercourse. Often, pessary will need to be cleaned, which may require periodically visiting the doctor.

Surgical treatment is possible, but should be delayed as much as possible, particularly if the woman still plans to have children. If the uterus is to be preserved, sacral colpoplexy may be of interest, which is binding the uterus back with a surgical mesh (yet another way to avoid hysterectomy!).

If all other circumstances are right, a case of severe prolapse tends to be resolved through hysterectomy. Vaginal hysterectomy may also be an option.

Astrological Conditions for Uterine Prolapse

In astrology, the conditions for the prolapsus of the womb are:

– afflictions in Scorpio,

– diseases of Scorpio type,

– the Moon, Saturn, Mars or Venus afflicted in Scorpio,

– subluxation at 5L,

– 2nd degree of Scorpio: uterus,

– 3 Scorpio: the right side of the uterus,

– 4 Scorpio: the left side of the uterus,

– 5 Scorpio: uterine cavity,

– 18 Scorpio: ligaments of the uterus,

– mid-point of SO/ME: binding tissues.

You can see a more complete astrophomepathical case of prolapsed uterus here.

Homeopathic Remedies for Uterine Prolapse

Depending on the state of the organs, homeopathic treatment can be quite effective. Remedies such as Arnica, Sepia, Fraxinus Excelsior (“homeopathic pessary”), Paladium, Murex etc. should be studied and taken, either as a constitutional remedy or as a mixture. Other remedies for prolapsus uteri could be: Aesc. h., Sec, Plat, Bell, Lill. t., Nux Vom, Nux Mos, Pod., Pul.

It seems Su Jok could be useful for cases of uterine prolapse, but we need hard evidence that it would really be so.

An Intrauterine Device (IUD) is inserted into the cervix and into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. It is not noticeable during the intercourse and can last from 1 up to 10 years. The role of an IUD is to change the lining of the uterus and fallopian tubes, changing the way eggs and sperm move so that fertilization does not occur. Several problems that an IUD can bring are heavier menstrual bleeding, piercing or perforation of the uterine wall, any vaginal infection can result in permanent infertility and so on.

Here is one blog post, by Sockpuppet, in which she says

I had made up my mind at the end of last year that I was in too much pain to continue dealing with my endometriosis. Went to my dr. discussed options and had decided to have a hysterectomy. (much to my drs. disappointment) A couple of weeks went by, I started talking to women going through the same pain and stress. I read up on hysterectomies and then I started reading up on IUDs. Alot of information is out there about IUDs and alot of it came back to the IUD actually causing my pain. I made another decision. Let’s take the IUD out, see if the pain changes. If it doesn’t then okay, if it does then we’ll see. I went in told my dr what I wanted to do, he agreed. It was as though he literally pulled the pain away from my body when he took out the IUD!! I had been in such life altering pain before that… to the point that I had to force myself to function, or to get out of bed. It was a nightmare.

She then switched to the pill and cancelled the hysterectomy. A happy ending and not a happy hysterectomy! Congratulations!

In the rest of the post she wonders whether to have one more baby or not. Here is my comment to the entire post:

Thank you for this post. I have a site on how to avoid hysterectomy and here you are, changing the state of the things, taking the IUD out, and cancelling the hysterectomy in consequence! Bravo! Now you have a chance to have a second baby!

BTW, having a second baby is more work, but it’s not really double the work you already do for one child. Think of it as of a gift to Lulu. If you do have a second baby, she will have a sibling for life:

another birthday party each year,

mutual support for life,

someone to play with and be angry at…

I don’t believe the state of the economy has anything to do with having babies. After all, now we live better than our parents, but that did not stop them from having you and me.

Wishing you all the best, and

Sincerely, Dusko Savic

So what about you? Would you have one more child if you did not have a hysterectomy?

Signs of Ovarian Cancer (Even in the Absence of Ovaries)

The authour advocates that you should perform a yearly CA-125 ovarian cancer test, which should be even paid by your insurance (if you live in the USA, that is).

Maybe you should. Or you can ask a medical astrologer to see whether the period for cancer is really due.

Here’s a comparative study, with the full name of

Uterine artery embolisation or hysterectomy for the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids: a cost-utility analysis of the HOPEFUL study

by Wu, O. and Briggs, A.H. and Dutton, S. and Hirst, A. and Maresh, M. and Nicholson, A. and McPherson, K. (2007), and published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 114(11):pp. 1352-1362.

They wanted to see which procedure should be favourized from the standpoint of UK NHS. There were 649 women who underwent UAE (Uterine Artery Embolisation) and were followed for the 8.6 years in average, while there were 459 women with hysterectomy, which were followed for up to 4.6 in average.

Two main measures were the Costs of procedures and complications, and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY) UAE had the lower cost, £2536 versus £3282, small reduction in quality of life (8.203 versus 8.241 QALYs) when compared with hysterectomy. However, when the quality of life associated with the conservation of the uterus was incorporated in the model, UAE was shown to be the dominant strategy—lower costs and greater QALYs.

The result of the study is that simply more women should be allowed to UAE instead of going directly to hysterectomy. This is especially important if the woman wants to preserve her uterus.

The abstract of the Uterine Artery Embolisation or Hysterectomy For the Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids study is published by the University of Glasgow.

No, life goes on.

Life with a husband you luv with certainly with no kids of your own?

Then you decide to adopt… a 10-month old Chinese girl.

Read the rest of this beautiful story, how it all happened to BETTY J. MEYER from Chipsake.

Here is this beautiful post by Sabrina Prindiville. A mother of five, last winter she was diagnosed with a lump on her thyroid. For two long weeks she waited for the results, only to learn that the tumor is benign. And then, another tumor, which needed a hysterectomy. Touched by the thoughts of death, just when she found out that her 18 year old oldest son and his girlfriend were pregnant… We always know life is fragile, but do our best to conveniently keep forgetting it… until a surgery comes along, or we start thinking how our children would grow without us… or… or… or…

So her hysterectomy taught her to laugh more, whine less and hug her children a little longer. She also found the courage to compete and win a new career position, because it’s change or die, but you’re gonna die anyway one day, so why not change now and grab the life that you were born to and into?

ASTROLOGER’S NOTE

The moment I am writing this, Pluto is on 29.45 Sagittarius, and the moment I read her post, the Moon was on 29.50 Taurus, making as precise an inconjunction with the Pluto as it can be. Inconjunction is the “tweaking” of life that Sabrina went through, because of her reproductive organs (the Moon is the uterus, Pluto is a cut-away tumor, their inconjunction is a surgery such as hysterectomy.) The Moon is exalted in Taurus, where it secures life, and on the last degree of Taurus, the Moon has stopped producing life. Finally, now it is on 0.12 Gemini, the sign of blogs and short writing, so here am I, blogging about a hysterectomy irrevocably (Pluto) changing somebody’s life.

You can see the presentation here.

There are other ways to deal with fibrods, some of them are described on this very site, such as:

Homeopathic Treatment For Uterine Fibroids

Herbal Remedies For Uterine Fibroids etc.

Here is yet another voice of doubt.

Do you need that hysterectomy!? is a fair appraisal of the alternatives that exist for the hysterectomy today.

If women new more about their anatomy and physiology, they would make informed decisions about hysterectomy, the HERS foundation believes. They are organizing their 26th conference soon:

ERS TWENTY-SIXTH HYSTERECTOMY CONFERENCE
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 8:30am-6:00pm
The Westin Pasadena, Plaza Room
191 North Los Robles
Pasadena, CA 91101
Open to the public

For more info, click here to go the their blog.

Hysterectomy can really have disastrous consequences upon your sex life. Furthermore, it can ruin long term marriages, read the awakening testimonials here.

If you are in the USA, this short, short list of hysterectomy resources by Washington Post might come handy to you.

– Pelvic pain and heavy bleeding;

– Not responding to earlier treatments; and

– Previous use of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH agonists) such as Lupron.

If all three predictors are present, there is a 95% possibility of having a hysterectomy in the end, the researcher said. And conversely, if hysterectomy was done because of the presence of these three predictors, the patients were pleased with the outcome.

This sheds a new light on hysterectomy decisions. One way to interpret this finding is to refuse to have a hysterectomy done if not all of these conditions are present. Doctors/tag-tec] should serve hysterectomy as an option only if these three conditions are present, and otherwise they shouldn’t. Patients should, on their own behalf, search for alternative treatments in order to avoid the second condition, while doctors should probably stop prescribing Lupron so easily, since it can lead to hysterectomy later on.

All in all, very interesting.

For a comprehensive line-up of endometrial ablation methods please have a look at our page called Can Endometrial Ablation Replace Hysterectomy in Cases of Heavy Menorrhagia? The video that we have present here is at

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=574778

It is 46 minutes long and shows hydrothermal endometrial ablation performed as a live webcast, on September 27th 2007. Enjoy!

Low Libido in Women — What To Do About It?

So many women have low libido, a low drive to have sex with their partners. Almost half of the women actually fall into this category and some of the actually want to do something about it. This story, Pills Not Always the Cure for Women Suffering Low Libido, tells us about a case in which testosterone pills actually helped a woman regain her libido, and at the same time, it also states that the low male hormones are far from the only cure.

A typical situation in which sex drive is diminished is after the hysterectomy, you can read an article testosterone for women on this site about it.

Although, as as astrologer, I must add that the quality of your sex drive depends both on your Mars and Venus in the natal chart, as well as on the interplay of these two planets with your partner’s Mars and Venus. (Hint, hint: find a partner with any kind of crossed aspect with your Mars and Venus and you won’t even need artificial hormones!)

Treatments For Menorrhagia Evaluated, UK

Heavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia) is a common problem in women. About 5% of women asks their GP about that such bleeding. In previous decades, hysterectomy was the only way to resolve it, but in the meantime, new surgical techniques evolved. Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya of the University of Aberdeen will lead a team of researchers to review the existing evidence about hysterectomy, endometrial ablative techniques (microwave endometrial ablation and thermal balloon ablation), and the Mirena coil. The goal of the study is to establish long term effectiveness of all these methods, and then to create a set of guidelines for doctors to follow in clinical decision making. The estimated publishing time is mid 2010.

Here are the technical details of the proposed study.

New Hysterectomy Offers Faster Recovery

A sugar-coated story of how a woman had increasingly heavy periods and anemia, how her doctor persuaded her to take the uterus out and how she walked home the next day after the laparoscopic, or minimally-invasive, hysterectomy.

This story reads like an open advertisement for hysterectomy. Laparascopy is better than laparotomy, and yes, you do walk away from the hospital much faster as compared to the usual gynecological surgery. What the story does not tell is that from now on that woman will live without her main sex organ, and that can hurt in more ways that one.

Incidentally, in this hysterectomy news here is an animated video of laparoscopic hysterectomy. If you are interested in video presentations concerning hysterectomy, you can use a rich collection of annotated hysterectomy videos from the very site that you are reading now, How To Avoid Hysterectomy.com.

You can learn more about laparoscopy in hysterectomy, here.

Peggy Anderson Blog: September is
National Gynecological Awareness Month

I’ll just quote Peggy Anderson:

I know that I didn’t consider myself at risk. I was at 23 years of age, had cervical cancer, and had a hystertomy. At 33 years of age I had vaginal cancer due to bad cells left over from my surgery from that caused some major problems for me. Hemorrhaging problems that brought me to emergency wards, even though I had a hysterectomy. I had a procedure called cryosurgery or freezing of the cells. (Since I will turn 60 this next year, I don’t get embarrassed about “the little things in life.” Health is important in our society!)

I always say, “Every day is a gift.” This is especially so for many cancer patients, who cherish the rising of the sun, and the smell of a flower, a new taste, a new day, and a new event. We see the beauty in every day and every tomorrow.

Read her blog post about the conditions that can lead to various forms of gynecological cancers.

I’d like to do her natal chart and see why she had all these medical problems and also what enabled her to survive them all for decades.

Sex After Hysterectomy

Here is an ongoing discussion on the effects hysterectomy has on sex. I added a comment and here is what I have said (I’ll record it here, in case they don’t allow my comment on their blog):

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Hi to all here

Although my site is active for more than two years by now, I have only today stumbled upon this blog. The comments here show how painful everything about hysterectomy seems to be and what I find most disturbing is this sheep mentality that so many women succumb to. Oh, the doctor said it would be OK, so it must be OK, right? The thought that some real healing should be tried before the surgery is so alien to the Western World that the results really are sickening.

Every illness has its cause. Removing the cause will lead to true healing, but what do women do instead!? They go to a doctor and hope that they will be able to purchase a solution. Hysterectomy is so widespread in the USA because there is an implicit belief that doctors hold the keys to everything and vise versa, if they don’t know what to do, than all the means are exhausted. This enervates me because I know that there are at least 5, 6 or 7 ways to heal uterine fibroids, heavy menstrual bleeding, cancer and so on. In 20% of cases, hysterectomy will be the only way to proceed, but what about those 80% that can really avoid hysterectomy if only they knew it were possible.

Somebody in these comments said it was not possible to predict the outcome of a hysterectomy. Well, it is possible to predict it through the methods of medical astrology. On my site I list many such cases, and I openly give the recipes that helped several women stop their menstrual bleeding, avoid hystrectomy etc. And here we are not talking about $5000 cost of surgery, we are talking about cheap natural remedies such as herbal remedies, homeopathic remedies, enzymes and the like, that can all be gathered for a few bucks from Amazon.

The point is this: if you want to get healed, you will be — but somebody first has to tell you that you can be healed. Surgery is cutting out, not healing. The Moon rules both the uterus and the breasts, and when they take away the uterus, the energy goes to the breasts… which is why so many women on HRT after hysterectomy develop cancer of the breasts.

For the ladies here that experienced sex drive through the roof after hysterectomy, that kind of behavior is astrologically described as an aspect of Mars and Uranus. It may well be possible that such an aspect was made during the surgery, and that it may affect you harder that it normally would. Strong sexual drives may also come as a result of too much testosterone, so everybody with this type of behavior should control their hormonal mix from time to time.

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You can read about hysterectomy side effects from this very site. Also, here is what I wrote about sex after hysterectomy.

That’s it for this week, then!

If this were an episode from some TV soap opera, you would just laugh and try for another channel. For this woman in Lincoln, Nebraska, the above scenario is reality. This baby will not be born and this woman will also never get pregnant again, that’s for sure! Now she sues the doctors at Planned Parenthood clinic for $38,000, to compensate for pain, fright, medical costs and so on (you can read the entire story here, at JournalStar.com archives.)

Let have a look at the horary chart of this event, which will show what actually happened:

Uranus opp Sun — sudden decisions,

Uranus sq Mars and Sun sq Mars — totally unpredictable events,

Moon con Mars — uterus will be operated, uterus in blood,

Jupiter opp Mars — enormous blood flow, with the Moon so close — in the uterus,

Venus, Saturn, Sun, Mercury in the seventh house — she wants to sue in order to punish them (Saturn), revenge

Pluto sq Mercury which rules the fifth house of pregnancies — there will be no more pregnancies, it is final (Pluto in square).

There you have it. An unusual case, quite explained through its chart.

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All astrologers should come and see the readings of the charts, and students of medical astrology should certainly bookmark the site to come and read all of it!

Students and practitioners of various energy healing techniques, such as Reiki, homeopathy, Su Jok, herbal and flower remedies and so on, should also come to How To Avoid Hysterectomy.com to see how their methods blend in with periods of time that were read through the horoscope.

Of course, all others interested in hysterectomy in particular and in gynecology at large should feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed!

. heavy metrorrhagia (profuse bleeding),

. heavy anaemia, and a

. fibroid 2×4 cm on the rear wall of the uterus.

She was released from the hospital without any intervention or therapy for the acutely bleeding uterine fibroids! In this situation, she remembered homeopathy, due to Mercury in Pisces and Venus in Aries in the solar chart. (The signs of Pisces and Aries are very imporant for homeopathy, because its founder, Samuel Hanneman, had three planets in Pisces and another three planets in Aries; Kent also had six planets in these signs.) So she was prescribed a routine mixture of homeopathic remedies for uterine fibroids. All the problems, including the fibroid itself, disappeared within the first month of treatment, without any surgery.

She was released from the hospital without any intervention or therapy for the acutely bleeding uterine fibroids! In this situation, she remembered homeopathy, due to Mercury in Pisces and Venus in Aries in the solar chart. (The signs of Pisces and Aries are very imporant for homeopathy, because its founder, Samuel Hanneman, had three planets in Pisces and another three planets in Aries; Kent also had six planets in these signs.) So she was prescribed a routine mixture of homeopathic remedies for uterine fibroids. All the problems, including the fibroid itself, disappeared within the first month of treatment, without any surgery.

The Natal Chart

This woman is born on 6th of February 1955, 8:15am, 44:48N, 20:30E.

Here are the important facts from the chart: The Sun is on 15 Aquarius, the Moon on 6 Leo, and the Ascendant is 20 Pisces.

Mars sextile the Sun together with Jupiter, Uranus and the Moon in the fifth house, made her spend her youth playing tennis.

There is a striking great watery trine, the Ascendent on 20 Pisces, Saturn in the VIII house on 20 Scorpio, then Jupiter on 22 and Uranus on 24 Cancer.

Saturn in Scorpio in the VIII house will give diseases of reproductive organs throughout life. Pluto rules the VIII house and is in the VI house, opposite to retrograde Mercury on 29 Aquarius, where Mercury is a co-ruler or second ruler of the VI house.

Mercury and the Sun are in the XII house… all the three houses of diseases are connected through aspects of the planets, so in one point in life this has to materialize as an illness.

Additionaly, Saturn squares Pluto (his ruler) and is inconjunct Mars (another ruler of Saturn, through Scorpio). Fortunately, Saturn is a part of the aforementioned great watery trine, which will facilitate easy regeneration from the diseases of the VIII house in Scorpio.

Hard aspects of Saturn, in Scorpio and in the VIII house, are a predisposition for a bladder stone.

Saturn square the Sun is an operation as well as a chronic rheumatism.

The Moon in the V house in hard aspects and on a malefic fixes star is a precondition for premature abortions of a pregnancy.

A full V house with hard aspects of Saturn and Uranus to the rulers of the VI and VIII houses, guarantees the presence of venereal diseases or some other disorders of the genital system.

The Moon is on the fixed star North Aselus, which can lead to blindness or other problems with sight, when the transits come.

The Solar Return Chart and Transits for 2001

Let’s have a look at the solar return chart for 2001.

The Ascendant is on 23 Gemini, the VI house is from 10 Scorpio to 23 Sagittarius, with both of its rulers in it — Mars on 25 Scorpio and Pluto na 14 Sagittarius. Mars is in exact opposition to Saturn on 24 Taurus, the Sun is on 16 Aquarius and Uranus is on 20 Aquarius. From there, Uranus precisely squares the natal Saturn on 20 Scorpio. This chart contains similar energies, the Sun and Uranus are the focal points of a fixed T-square, with Saturn opposed to Mars as a base. This year, some illness will strike for sure, but it will not be fatal.

The VIII house is empty, while Pluto from the VI house is in exact sextile to Uranus and Sun, serving as an energy outlet for that T-square.

Mars in Scorpio in the VI house is an acute illness of the genitals (bleeding and inflammation), Saturn in the XII house is going to a hospital, Jupiter conjunct Saturn is a tumor and we only need see which part of the body to focus on.

The Moon on 6 Leo is in exact inconjunction with Neptune on 6 Aquarius, and we note that the 6th degree is similar to the VI house and the VI sign, therefore, the illness will be visible on part of the body ruled by the Moon exactly — the uterus itself.

Venus square Mars gives congestion — surplus blood being stored in the walls of the uterus.

Progression for 2001

The progression for year 2001 is similar to the solar return chart as the Ascendent is on 4 Gemini.

The VI house is in Libra and Scorpio, the VIII house is empty, and in the XII house Mars is on 18 Taurus opposed to Saturn from the VI, on 20 Scorpio. In the solar chart we see an identical opposition between those houses, except that Saturn is in Taurus and Mars is in Scorpio! The other important element is opposition of Venus to Pluto, which is making “a state within a state”, i.e. tumors and growths. Venus on 22 Aquarius and Pluton on 24 Leo are not only in opposition but are a part of grand cross with Mars and Saturn. It is a trend shaping for some ten or so years and has to materialize as a chronic (Saturn), long (fixed signs) illness of genital organs (Scorpio active, as well as its rulers), tumor (Venus opposed to Pluto), which must be resolved through amputation (Mars square Pluto) of the diseased tissues. The only difference is that here the uterine fibroids were amputated in a non-surgical manner.

Astrohomeopathical Diagnosis and Cures

In the natal chart, the following remedies are prominent: Arsenicum Album, Nux Vomica, Tubercullinum, Ignatia, Thuja, Strammonium, Naja Tripudians, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, and Calcarea Carbonica.

In progression, the remedies are:

Natrium Muriaticum, Latrodectus Mactans, Stramonium, Thuja, Platinum Metallicum, Syphillinum, Kalmia Latifolia, Lachesis.

In solar return chart, the remedies are:

Nux Vomica, Natrium Muriaticum, Aurum Metallicum, Tubercullinum, Strammonium, Silicea, Ferrum Phosphoricum, Syphillinum, Conium, Kalmia Latifolia, Psorinum, Pulsatilla, Sepia, Lachesis.

All this lead to an efficient healing with a mixture of homeopathic remedies, please see the page on homeopathic treatment for uterine fibroids.

Sometimes, the surgeon will prescribe Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, such as Depot Lupron, to be taken a month or two in advance. That will shrink the fibroids while being taken. The downside of using Lupron is a temporary menopause, with symptoms such as hot flashes, sweating and the like.

Click here to read the entire article on hysteroscopic myomectomy.

You can see laparoscopic myomectomy videos here.

Just as with any other type of myomectomy, the goal of laparoscopy is to stop heavy bleeding and pressure on the internal organs from the (possibly large) fibroids. Theoretically, it is possible to get rid of any kind of uterine fibroids with laparoscopic myomectomy, but the fact is it works best if there were one or two large fibroids. With other types of myoma present, laparoscopy may not be ideal solution, since there will be a defect in the uterus on the place occupied by the fibroid that was taken out, and that defect must be repaired in order to prevent complications.

Read on to see for whom laparoscopic myomectomy is for.

Besides abdominal, there are also laparoscopic and hysteroscopic myomectomy. Abdominal myomectomy represents the most classical approach:

A “true surgery” one might say, comparable to a large surgery of any other internal organ.

Please read the rest of the article on abdominal myomectomy.