HealthWatch: Fixing Fibroids

HealthWatch: Fixing Fibroids

HealthWatch: Fixing Fibroids

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Pilates studio owner Tonya Amos needs her body to run her business. However, the former professional dancer started feeling intense pain. A visit to her doctor revealed the cause.

"She said, 'Does this hurt' and she pushed on my abdomen, and I said, 'Yeah that hurts', and she said, 'Yeah that's a fibroid,'" Amos told Ivanhoe.


"What I heard over and over was 'you need a hysterectomy,'" Amos explained. "That was not an option for me."


"That heat burns the fibroid cells and destroys them," Vanessa Jacoby, MD, MAS, Assistant Professor Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Dept. of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services, University of California, San Francisco, told Ivanhoe.


"We use radiofrequency energy to burn the fibroid cells," Dr. Jacoby explained.

With a hysterectomy, there's a three- to six-week recovery. The ablation is about a week. The ultrasound therapy is just two days.

Amos had the ultrasound treatment. It shrunk her fibroids.

"It feels like my body again," Amos said. "I got my body back!"



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