Hi, I am fourty seven and my doctor suggests a hysterectomy to solve problems with fibroids and heavy painful periods. One says just the uterus removal the other says ovaries too, and then of course hormone treatments after. I have a high rate of cancer in my family so getting rid of organs that will eventually shrivel up anyway seems like it would reduce my risk for cancer there. Yet I am concerned of how hard it will be to recover from surgery, how it my mental health will be because of the instant menopause I will go through and of course I have been told I will no longer have orgasiums. So any women who would share their experince with me as to how you might have done with this would really be helpful in making my descion.

I am breastfeeding…loving the experience. However, I have a fibroid which has apparently grown while I was pregnant. It causes contraction like pain I’m assuming when my cycle would be on. It also is contributing to digestive issues, which I’ve always had problems with..just worse now. My question is, what can I do/take to become more "regular" *without* giving the baby loose stools?! Also, is there any women who have dealt with fibroids, what treatment did you choose, are there natural remedies? Moms, pleas help me, I want to continue feeding my little one!

Have been TTC for a while now. Within the last two years have had a HSG, laparoscapy/hysterocapy & D&C. Everything is coming back normal. I did have some endometriosis and fibroids removed (jan). Been using OPKs and it appears i ovulate everymonth. Still haven’t had any success.

When i go to the fertility specialist am I going to have to start over with all the tests? I don’t have a huge budget. Probably can afford a few attempts at IUI. Insurance does not cover infertility treatments (except clomid)

I am experiencing a lot of bleeding during sex, i got tested for all std’s and it was negative but a yeast infection, then i got treated and it went away, i was normal, then again it happened, but this time i treated myself with over the counter yeast treatments even thought i had no symptoms but this bleeding, then i had sex n it was fine, then next time i had sex after 4 days i did bleed again i did not experience any symptoms of yeast infection. i don’t know what to do. im thinking i could have fibroids because i have heavy periods it last about 6 days, and i spot about 3 days before my period. what could this be?

Ok here is the thing. My husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for 5 years during 95% of the time I had no insurance. Well in Nov. of this year I got health insurance so have been at the DR. a lot. I bled for 7 1/2 months straight. Went to the ER so many times during this process and was told every time that everything was normal. I felt like I was being over looked. When I went to the dr he ordered a ton of tests and everything was fine. I have no health issues, no fibroids or cysts and a perfectly healthy cervix and uterus. I am overweight though, but like the dr said i am very healthy for an overweight girl. He scheduled a D&C which is in 2 weeks and then an appointment to start fertility treatments. Is this really going to work? Is there anyone out there that has gone through the same thing? What can I expect? I have been taking prenatal vitamins for 1 month now and for the first time ever my cycle started normally and lasted 7 days. What if I was to get pregnant before my D&C, would they know?

In a way I can tell I’m blessed why? In 2008 I used to blame myself and others who caused a car accident that I was in. I lost so much after that accident not being able to have the very good health and physic I used to have. From 162 no I weight 210. I went to so many doctors after my accident because my neck and back was really in pain. I finally found a doctor who did thank lord give me hope that everything could go back to normal. Until the other day my chiropractors to finish my treatment cause my insurance almost with no balance, he told me that he will MRI my back. When they did they found and confirmed that I had a herniated disc L5-S1 that this accident had make worst because a previous chiropractor told me I had a disc problem before 3 days before the accident etc… But that MRI for my back shows a growing mass inside my pelvic. They send me for a pelvic ultrasound. Also the days of the MRI my tummy to the right side move so much that was crazy and I was extremely dizzy. Result came like that:

Age: 26
Sex: Female

History: Pelvic pain with heavy menses.

Finding: utilizing a full urinary bladder as an acoustic window, the pelvis was evaluated and the uterus is in a normal anteverted/anteflexed orientation measuring 8.4 x 9.8 x 8.0 cm. The uterus contains a very large anterior complex leiomyoma, which measures 10.2 x 8.6 x 9.7 cm. The right and left adnexa are normal. There is no free fluid within the cul-de-sac.

Impression: There is a large soft tissue mass involving the anterior uterus almost certainly representing a large partially pedunculated leiomymoma, which measures 10.2 x 8.6x 9.7 cm. This is an otherwise normal study.

I had so many symptoms related to this now I realized when I make search, I though it was normal to have these symptoms or I was like that but I was in silence sick.

-I always had heavy period since a teen
-around 2 to 3 days
-only when lose weight in 2007 my period is around 5 to 6 days with no pain at all.
-sometimes painful period who changed to be worst now, and right side got worst in last 3 years with clog blood peace going aout.
-constipation on and off but now for my period this month my belly got so big and bloated and I was constipated now I started going again.
-I always fell pain when I’m ovulating like I’m having my period on my right ovaries side and pain bit after period since 1 year ½ now.
-My right side belly itch me so much when I eat sugar or bad food or fell like biting me inside to my skin.
-when I crave too much sugar and eat really too much I have a gluant mucus think like mucus and clear going out my vagina with no smell, sometimes itch lightly. When I take the GSE grapseed oil it’s ok.
-under my skin all over my body something fell like stuff crawling.
-end 2007/start 2008 after doing a master cleanse I start noticing theses itch on my right side belly. And I was for 2 months on and off yeast infection diagnosed was Candida vaginitis.
-during the cleanse fell like one day my right ovary need to go out like something pulling out.
- I never tried to cleanse my body ever since.

Please God is giving an opportunity to heal myself. By showing me that I have been sick for years trough all this tragedy, I discover it. Please give me information about my condition anyone is welcome/ what food to eat and not/ what life to lead/ what supplement to takes/ what natural medicine is good/ what surgery is involved/ do this fibroids turn into cancer. HELPPPPPPP PLEASE.

I will see a doctor this Tuesday and hope better news and hope he tells I will be able to have 1 baby.

and heartburn and excessive salivation. i miscarried five years ago and later even when i went for fertility treatment nothing happened. i have a history of PCOS and uterine fibroids. now this missed period please can anyone help me i am scared of going to the gynec in case if the pregnancy test is negative please help me
and heartburn and excessive salivation. i miscarried five years ago and later even when i went for fertility treatment nothing happened. i have a history of PCOS and uterine fibroids. now this missed period please can anyone help me i am scared of going to the gynec in case if the pregnancy test is negative please help me. and i am late by 17 days. i was spotting the last time but this time except for a clear excessive sticky discharge from the vagina
i also have had a laparoscopy for checking wether the tubes were blocked they weren’t blocked and i had a couple of cysts over which my gynec has performed ovarian drilling but this was about a year ago. i was supposed to have started clomid but we were having marital problems and i couldn’t take the fertlility treatment last year. now we have resolved. and reconciled and very much hoping for a baby.

It’s like IVF but they go in through your abdomen instead of the vagina. I was told since my cervix was too high to do fertility treatments, another option would be to get IVF but the cather would go in the stomach. I am 33 years old, had 2 myomectomies (fibroids removed) and my cervix is still too high. The specialist that i am seeing has never done the IVF through the abdomen so, i will be looking for another doctor to do this but i’ve looked on the internet, with no success, to see if anyone else has heard of this and i can’t find anything. Long story short, my cervix is too high to try fertility treatments like HSG, artificial insemination, etc and i don’t know what procedures i can do to bring my cervix down. i think this may be my only option to try and conceive. If this doesn’t work, i may need to adopt. Oh and i live in Oklahoma if that helps. Any help, advice, links would be appreciated. Thanks

I recently had to have a hysterectomy due to fibroids and other problems. Other treatments were tried prior to me having the surgery done. I didn’t want to have any more children so it wasn’t an issue.

When I was recovering in the hospital one of the nurses who was a former soldier told me VA pays 50% disability for it. I don’t think that is right at all but he said I should file for it. Anyone know if this is true or not?
I think it is crazy. I had problem with my stomach and back before the surgrey. Now I feel great. I had minor complications from the surgrey.

I don’t plan to file I was just wondering if any one knew if it was true or not.

OK, this may end up being a little long, but I need to know. And before I start, let me just say, I have NOT been to the doctor yet, mainly because I’m too scared to find out what is wrong.

I have been having really weird, abnormal periods for a little over a year now. I track how long my period is every month on a small calendar that I carry in my purse. The troubles really began in July-August of ‘08, I had my period starting July 18th, but it didn’t END until August 28th!!! I went for 6 weeks! And then September came and I started on the 12th, ended on the 19th. One week. October I started on the 26th and ended on November 1st. Then for the rest of November and all of December, I didn’t have a period, at all! Then in January of this year, I started on the 12th, ended on the 22nd. This period was VERY light and instead of being a bright red color, it was brown and pink with very little red mixed in. And then in February, I started on the 9th, it’s now the 6th of March and I’m still going strong. I’m not bleeding heavily, but it IS steady. A couple of times in the last week it seemed like I was going to stop bleeding, but then an hour or two later, I would start bleeding more steadily again.

I’m not on birth control, in fact it’s the opposite, my husband and I have been trying to conceive since October, but haven’t been successful yet. My question is, does this sound like just a regular cyst on one or both of my ovaries, or is something more serious? I’ve researched all over the internet about abnormal periods and haven’t been able to find anything. I don’t have the symptoms for uterine fibroids, I don’t really have any symptoms at all, other than regular "period symptoms" like mild cramping, lower backache and headaches and bloating. Which if I take Pamprin or Midol, those go away for a few hours, so they’re not bothersome at all, other than they’re a constant to go along with all of my bleeding.

If this is just cysts, what will the doctor do? What can I expect as far as an exam and treatment? Should I be as worried and scared of this as I am? Is there a "natural cure" for this, something I can do on my own? Please don’t be rude, I’m seriously worried sick about this and would really like to know what’s going on, but at the same time I don’t. Does that make sense? If it’s nothing serious, then I want to know, but if it’s major, I’m scared to find out!