Anyone been diagnosed with fibroids?!


Question: can you tell your symptoms and what treatment was offered?


Answers: can you tell your symptoms and what treatment was offered?

More often than not women have no symptoms and are unaware they even have them until they have a scan for some reason. If they are going to cause symptoms then the commonest is heavy, prolonged periods. Rarely they can cause pain.
Treatment depends on whether the woman has finished having children or not. If she still wants children then an operation called a myomectomy can be performed. This removes the fibroid but leaves the womb intact. If the fibroid is particularly large this may not be an option. Sometimes a hysterectomy is the only way to solve the problem and it is often the choice when a woman's family is complete.
If the fibroids are not too large or causing undue problems then doctors tend to leave them alone as they often shrink anyway at the time of menopause.

My periods were very painful and I would get really sick during my period. I didn't want anymore kids so they took my uterus when they found out I had fibroid. Fibroids are safer to have than cysts, less chance of cancer.

They are lumps that can be mistaken for cancer tumors... but a professional can tell by the feel in most cases that they are fibroids. They are tender to the touch in a lot of cases. They can be removed if they are in a bad spot. If they are not, as many are small and in the breasts, they are left there. If they become too painful as in woman that are going into menopause, the doctors will try hormone therapy.

I found out i had fibroids during a routeen scan But as they were not enlarged they said leave well alone But if you are planning to have a baby the doctors might remove them.

Fibroids or Polyps are mostly benign and can occur at anytime in women who have had children. During the menopause it is often found that they just disappear again thus Gynaecologists tend to leave them be unless they are causing a problem. Then they can be removed surgically

When I had my first child, after I had excessive bleeding. My doctor sent me for an ultrasound scan to check everything had come away and they said I had a fibroid. My doctor has never mentioned it since or offered any treatment.

Painful periods and bad nausea and vomiting during periods, but my doctor couldn't tell they were there until a hysterectomy was done, because they were lots of very small pinhead ones on the back wall of the uterus. Also had some endometriosis on my colon that he didn't know about until the hysterectomy years later.

Birth control pills can help with painful periods sometimes.

They sometimes can do myomectomy now to take out only the fibroids.

I had extremely heavy & periods with no regularity from the time I first started. I knew even as a teen that I would not have kids, but the doctors refused to do anything about the situation, saying "you'll change your mind & regret it" Well, this is almost 45 years later, & i haven't regrtetted the decision not to have kids. I finally got my hysterectomy at age 45, because the fibroids that had caused so many problems over the years had grown to the degree that they were visible from the outside. It was only in the final year that they grew like that. I keep looking back at all the pain & discomfort from all those years, 7 I have a lot of anger that the doctors wouldn't listen to me. Its their job to explain & advise, not force their decisions on their patients. The surgery was a snap--I had a spinal, & never took even a Tylenol for pain. In a week I was pretty functional--I got groceries the night I got out of the hospital. At the time i was caring for my elderly mom, & other than not using the vacuum for 2 weeks, everything went as usual. It was a terrific experience, the only regreet that I couldn't have it done sooner..

extra long heavy periods in the past they used to preform hysterectomy but to day they would do a hysteroscopy and remove just the fibroid at the same time
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