Re: jillian-grew AFTER menopause?

[Guest guest]

Yes , it began growing after menopause, unless I had totally incompetent

gyn and ultra sound test reading. I had fibroids while going through the

change and some miserable three week periods and lots of heavy bleeding for

over a year before it all stopped....and my fibroids went with it. Then I

began to have miserable back pain about a year after my periods stopped and

there was a fibroid, and the watch and wait routine began....it sounded good

to me at the time cause i had gone through menopause without taking anything

except black cohosh and building myself up probably eating too much stuff

with estrogen in it...... and here i am at 58 still producing a good amount

of estrogen, no doubt making this fibroid grow. I was told they do grow

after menopause but that there is still only a 1 percent chance they could

develop into cancer if they degenerate ......Mine shows degeneration in the

center but has grown a cm in the past year. Evidently there is another

fibroid hidden by the first but not too big. I wish i had gotten serious

about this last year because i have allowed my quality of life to go down the

tubes just so i could keep working. Pputting up with it was the worst thing i

could have done....I dont get quality sleep and the back pain is miserable.

I have never had any breakthrough bleeding. also i believe the fibroid causes

discharge....the doctor says no but its my body and i have had enough tests

to know that something is unusual that they arent finding. All I know is, I

want my life back, i want the pooching out of my stomach gone, and I want to

be able to bend over.....I am so used to making do with my restrictions that

I probably could go on, but a person can wait too long. Jillian

[Guest guest]

I was rambling , my apologies. My last period was 6/99. All was normal,

uterus had no fibroids, it was tipped. Six months later I had back pain that

was interferring with my life, the gyno had an ultrasound done, that was

Jan,2000.....fibroid was there, 5cm. In February of this year, it was 6-7cm,

now it is 7-8cm, and another under it found around 1cm. I took progesterone

pills for about a year, but switched to creme and it became haphazard as I am

on the road, traveling a lot during the week. I think that may have

contributed to the growth. I have taken nothing this year except DIM, that

helps to shrink the prostate, but that evidently didnt work..lol

[Guest guest]

Antler,

My friend who is 53 and 3 yrs past menopause, had some bleeding last year and

went to the gyn. He found something, she had an ultrasound and they found a

fibroid. It kept growing for a couple of mos. then stopped. It is now softball

size. She was concerned about cancer because she was past menopause. But a

fibroid was concerned and now they are just watching. So far no problem, but

gyn told her that a fibroid can happen past menopause.

[Guest guest]

At 10:09 AM 12/30/2002, bungalojil@... wrote:

>Yes , it began growing after menopause, unless I had totally incompetent

>gyn and ultra sound test reading.

I don't know about " incompetent " ultra sounds, but I do know that my US

showed 3 large-ish fibroids (6-9 cm), but that I actually had 22. Yes, 22.

> All I know is, I

>want my life back, i want the pooching out of my stomach gone, and I want to

>be able to bend over.....I am so used to making do with my restrictions that

>I probably could go on, but a person can wait too long. Jillian

I don't think that is too much to wish for! I'm finally getting my life

back, after the most miserable year of my 34. Unfortunately, it took a

hysterectomy to get me to this point, but that's what needed to

happen. And I think life without a uterus is preferable to the worsening

bleeding, clotting, stained panties/sheets/car seat, anemia, etc.

Good luck, Jillian. I hope you get relief in a minimally invasive fashion.

Jen