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Taking aygestin for heavy menstrual cycles. having hysteroscopy momectomy to remove a fibroid. dr wants me to take until surgery in july. started with 5 mg. had spotting. switched to 10mg when bleeding started. still bleeding. what should i do?

Q: taking aygestin for heavy menstrual cycles. having hysteroscopy momectomy to remove a fibroid. dr wants me to take until surgery in july. started with 5 mg. had spotting. switched to 10mg when bleeding started. still bleeding. what should i do?

: Contact your GYN surgeon again and explain the above to him/her. The Aygestin will slow down or arrest endometrial bleeding but not if it is from the fibroid itself which if in a sub-mucous location is usually from an arteriole/artery. You can rapidly loss blood and become anemic so don't delay.

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Contact your GYN surgeon again and explain the above to him/her. The Aygestin will slow down or arrest endometrial bleeding but not if it is from the fibroid itself which if in a sub-mucous location is usually from an arteriole/artery. You can rapidly loss blood and become anemic so don't delay.

Answered 5/22/2022

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A member asked:

Taking aygestin for heavy menstrual cycles. having hysteroscopy momectomy to remove a fibroid. dr wants me to take until surgery in july. started with 5 mg. had spotting. switched to 10mg when bleeding started. still bleeding. what should i do?

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