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Menopause (Expert Forum)
chronic vaginal bleeding
Answered by
Machelle Seibel, MD - Women's Health, menopause, ReproductiveMedicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
MA
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Doctor's Answer
by Machelle Seibel, MD, Aug 27, 2007 09:13PM
, Aug 27, 2007 09:13PM
At 58 one would expect that you would not be bleeding at all and certainly not all month long. For that reason, talk to your doctor. He/she might do an ultrasound of your uterus to check the lining, an endometrial biopsy (which is an office procedure in which a thin plastic tube is placed into the uterus and a few cells scraped out to be looked at under the microscope), a hysteroscopy in which a thin telescope is placed into the uterus or a D&C which is like the endometrial biopsy but done in the operating room with anesthesia and the entire lining scraped out. That should help find the cause. It is not likely due to the fibroid.
Machelle M. Seibel, MD
Machelle M. Seibel, MD
