Explore Your Fibroid Treatment Options

When it comes to choosing between fibroid treatment options, you may be confused. Choices range from watchful waiting to surgery, and Uterine Fibroid Embolization. And, depending on the size and location of your fibroids, you may wish to start with the least invasive treatment, choosing other options if you need further relief.

Fibroid Treatment Options One: Waiting or Making Lifestyle Changes

If your fibroids are asymptomatic and small, you may avoid treatment altogether, unless you wish to become pregnant in the near future. During that time, you may also decide to make changes to your exercise routine and your diet, in order to lower estrogen levels and reduce the risk of fibroid growth.

Choosing Medications

Some women's preferred fibroids treatment options include medications that block hormone production, inducing medical menopause. However, while this treatment can reduce fibroid symptoms, it will also trigger new ones, as former ER star Julianna Margulies recently revealed to Women’s Health magazine. When she was 28, her doctors prescribed Lupron to manage her fibroid symptoms, but while on that medication shes says, “I would be on the set of ER and I would literally sweat all my makeup off. The night sweats were to the point where I would have to change my sheets, put towels down, change my pajamas. I could not believe what I was in store for."

If medical menopause is too extreme an option for you, medications such as hormonal birth control can provide relief from symptoms such as heavy periods. Still, they won’t shrink fibroids, and the relief will likely end once you stop taking contraceptives.

Minimally Invasive Fibroid Treatment Options: Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE)

If you choose UFE in Dallas, the minimally-invasive, outpatient procedure will shrink fibroids by interfering with their blood supply. Our interventional radiologists believe that UFE is one of the best fibroid treatment options because it offers a more affordable, less invasive alternative to surgery. However, you'll need to review your UFE candidacy with one of our specialists before choosing this treatment option.

Surgical Fibroid Treatments

Some women may elect to undergo a myomectomy (the surgical removal of individual tumors), or a hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus.) But you may be able to avoid an invasive surgery—along with hospital stays an extend recovery and potential complications—by choosing one of the less invasive fibroid treatment options highlighted above. Need more guidance picking your best pathway to relief? Request a consultation at our Dallas fibroid center. We'll review your UFE candidacy and discuss your next best steps.