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Originally Posted by crunchymama  Okay I am super confused! Please someone explain all this to me! Back in August of 2007 I started bleeding all the time, I couldnt get anyone (a doctor) conserned about it until February of this year, they all counted it up to breastfeeding and being irragular. In march I saw a gyn who said I had a Endometrial Hyperplama, but you guys are talking about Hyperpasia....right?? Is there a diffrance or am I just confused!? |
I don't know what hyperplama is, and I couldn't find it online. But, I am fairly certain that if your doc said endometrial hyper---- they meant hyperplasia (thickening of the uterine lining). It is a risk factor for later developing endometrial cancer, although it isn't cancerous itself.
There are treatments options out there besides D&C, but I would imagine their effectiveness depends on how thick the lining is and how your body responds to them.
If yours is severe, they would probably recommend a D&C and then progesterone usage to induce AF regularly to prevent the lining from thickening so much.
Sadly, doctors seem to blow off irregular/absent periods without understanding themselves what the patients are at risk for. I was going over 9 months between AF and my GP told me not to worry about it "until your ready to have babies." This went on for years until I got a decent doctor after ending up in the ER for excessive bleeding (after close to a year without AF, a lot of lining was in there trying to shed). I ended up having to go on progesterone to get it under control.