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[quote=Anonymous]I feel bad posting this, because I know probably a dozen women who have had ablations with no problems whatsoever.  I was planning to undergo the procedure at age 35 after having three kids (singleton + twins); all vaginal births with no complications.  I'm very healthy, not overweight, don't smoke, work out regularly, etc.  By all accounts, a good candidate for the procedure.  I do have really heavy periods, though, always have, which seems to be something that unfortuately runs in my family :/ .  Anyway, the doctor who was going to perform the procedure was not my regular ob-gyn, which was probably a mistake in hindsight.  I'd seen her before during my pregnancies for checkups and stuff though, and she'd monitored me during my twin pregnancy when there was a question of preterm labor and had done an excellent job, so I trusted her judgement.  However, when she went to do the ablation, she could not get the instrument to open or "fan out" correctly.  She tried for approx 90 min (!!) to get it to do so, and also placed a call to the manufacturer during this time, who advised her to stop the procedure, which she finally did.  In the process, though, my cervix tore (not badly, but enough to require stitches), and they were obviously unable to do the ablation.  I got a pretty serious post-op infection afterward, too, and ended up in the ER needing IV antibiotics to help clear it up.  The doctor was really upset about it and offered to try again, but I declined that invitation, for obvious reasons.  I have a Mirena IUD in now, which controls the bleeding and will probably get a hysterectomy in a couple years when my twins are a bit older.  [/quote]

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