Does anyone have a uterine fibroid?
Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at
12:13 pm
I have been diganosed with uterine fibroids about two years ago. Since that time my tumor has grown bigger and bigger to the point where it is starting to look like a early pregnancy. Is there anything that I can do to shrink it wihout having surgery? I cannot afford surgery.
Filed under: Fibroids Uterine
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I was diagnosed about a year ago with a fibroid that was only 1cm within two months it had grown to 6 cm. We were trying to get pregnant at the time and I wasn’t ovulating anymore because of the fibroid. My doctor gave me four options.
1. Uterine Embolization (They shoot styrofoam-like balls into one of the three arteries in your uterus through the top of your leg) It is not invasive. It is outpatient surgery. Not recommended if you are going to try to have another baby because they don’t know how much blood flow is cut off to your uterus. Sometimes not much and sometimes those little balls can travel higher and shut down blood flow to your ovaries as well. My doctor didn’t inform me of all of this. My cousin is a surgeon and I asked him about it. He gave me the details of pregnancy afterward. It’s a GREAT option if you don’t want anymore children though. Once it’s done it’s done.
2. A pill that is basically the morning after pill, but you take higher doses of it (2 or 3 a day). It has a good outcome from what my aunt said (she’s an OBGYN nurse and she had fibroids too). The downfall is it is not permanent and the fibroid may only shrink around 60% and could start to re-grow later.
3. Myomectomy – I had an abdominal myomectomy in August. It was a painful surgery, but that fibroid is gone and it will never come back, BUT I could have others grow in the near future or years from now. We did the surgery to buy us a couple of years to try to have another baby although it will be a higher risk pregnancy. If I get pregnant, I WILL have to have a C-section and my doctor recommends a full blown hysterectomy during the C-Section because my body will not be able to withstand another pregnancy since the tumor covered the whole back wall of my uterus and it would be really weak.
4. The FINAL option – hysterectomy – that is about as permanent as you can get.
I hope this informed you a little bit more than what you already knew. I spent months dwelling over my options and now I feel like I made the right one. Talk to many people and get as many ideas and options as possible.
that sucks…i think …it does doesn’t it
Yes, you can do it naturally. Seek out a good naturapath now and ask what your options are for suppliments that will help you. If that does not do the trick, there is a pill that shrinks fibroids that you will be able to obtain from an OB/GYN.
Surgery now days is the final option when you exhaust all others.
I have ovarian cysts and they say that you just have to deal with them until they risk your health and then have them removed. I had one removed but I couldn’t afford it now. I take birth control pills and that is supposed to help shrink fibriods.
it’s called uterine embolization —http://www.fibroidworld.com/UAE.htm ————
Yes, I have fibroid tumors and polyps and that’s(surgery) what the doctor has recommended for me . You may not have the money but you will need to do something – make payment arrangements – work part time job for extra money. Surgery is generally the final option
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