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What Is a Common Medication Used to Treat Fibroid Symptoms?

What Is a Common Medication Used to Treat Fibroid Symptoms? (0:26)

Tranexamic acid is a good option in treating fibroid symptoms says John Lipman, MD, interventional radiologist and Sharecare Advisory Board member. In this video, he says this medication will help lighten the menstrual flow.

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Trans-ezymic acid is a very good medicine, it's in the family of non-steroidals like Ibuprofen, but it has direct effect on the lining. And so that helps lighten the flow. And so that's a very common medicine that is used only during the heavy days of a woman's cycle. So, if she has two or three heavy days each month, it will only be for those days.