This “team approach” for treating fibroids offers you the capability to fully understand all choices available, and decide on the option that best fits your clinical and personal needs. Remember, asking questions and being an informed patient will help ensure that you get the best care.
Questions you should
ask about fibroid treatments:
• How do you naturally
treat symptomatic fibroids? Why?
• What are my surgical choices and my non-surgical options,
including drug therapy, specific to my condition for treating my uterine
fibroid tumors?
• What are the benefits, risks, and aids of each of the
fibroid treatments?
• Have all of the required diagnostic tests been performed
specific to my condition?
• If I want to retain my uterus, what substitutes to
hysterectomy are available?
Questions you should ask about surgical options:
• Do I need to have a surgery? Will my ovaries be removed?
If so, why? Will my cervix be detached? If so, why?
• What are the risks associated with surgery?
• Will I experience earlier menopause?
• Can the symptoms of menopause be treated?
• Will I need to take hormone replacement therapy? If not,
what symptoms will I experience? • What are the limitations of surgery?
• Will surgery cure my uterine fibroid tumors? Questions you
should ask about UFE:
• Do you refer patients for UFE? If not, why?
• How many patients have you referred for UFE and how many
have chosen UFE to treat their uterine fibroid tumors?
• Will you refer me to an interventional radiologist for a
consultation? Why or why not?