How is menorrhagia treated?
• Treating the medical or physical (as in the case of an IUD) cause provides relief from menorrhagia. • Treatment usually depends on age, whether or not you want children, on any underlying disorder, other medical conditions, and seriousness of the bleeding. • Until recent years, conventional treatment has usually been hysterectomy. Now new low-risk technologies are emerging that are equally effective. • An underlying medical condition causing menorrhagia should be treated. Polyps are generally removed; fibroids may require surgery to remove the fibroid, or hysterectomy. Hysterectomy, hormonal manipulation and radiation are the usual treatment for endometrial cancer. • If you are using an IUD, consider changing to another method of contraception. • If investigations show a hormone imbalance and no underlying medical cause, there are several possible approaches to treatment: • Watchful waiting (monitoring bleeding for a few months before treating it). • Hormone therapy (with birth contr
