freshly diagnosed with large firboids

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Hi all,

I'm Sue. I am a Licensed Midwife and a L/D nurse. I can talk till

the cows come home about pregnancy and birth, but when it comes to

fibroids, I'm just learning. I spent all afternoon reading past

posts, and what concerns me is this UFE proceedure. Polyurathane

plastic clogging up the artries? Can that be safe? It scares me to

think of it. I have a 15 x 9cm fibroid plus a few more not as

spectaular in size, contained in my uterus. I have different

symptoms than other posts that I have read. My periods abruptly

stopped 3 months ago, I had menopausal symptons like, hot flashes,

1/2 of my hair fell out, ice craving, anemia and two periods a month

for a couple of months. Then the urine leakage began. The symptoms

stopped, excpet the urine leakage. Replacing the beginning symptoms

I now have pink mucous spotting and a most offinsive odor, shooting

pains on my left side and 25lb wt gain the past month. Also I can

palpate my large uterus. So that's how I ended up on the gyn's table

with the sono wand intimatly placed. My first thought was yank out

the offending organ! But now I'm looking into a myomectomy. I don't

know my FSH and LH or throid levels yet, I just had them drawn

yesterday.

Sound familur?

Thanks for reading

Sue ,

[Guest guest]

Hi Sue,

Yes, your symptoms all sound familar. If you read enough posts, you see a little

of everything.

First, are you treating your anemia? Slow FE iron and vitamin C are the ticket.

Your hair falling out and the ice cravings are more severe symptoms. It's

important you get your counts up. Surgery isn't a option until this happens.

Everything else you described can be the fibroids. Have you had saline

utrasounds or MRIs for better pictures? Do you know where all your fibroids are?

You can have a myo. Depending on where your fibroids are, a UAE. A hyst was too

extreame for me. You can get a whole new set of problems with hysts.

Keep reading and ask questions. You can share your tests results here and they

can help explain them. www.myomectomy.net is a good source for basic

information. You can ask for help finding a doc.

Find a doc that has done lots of myos. You may want to try a RE. They usually

have good experience doing myos. Don't let a doc just talk you into hyst.

I had 3 docs tell me hyst before I went to another state and had a myo. None of

these 3 docs could do a myo. MANY women here get told hyst several times (some

never being told any other options). It's more the norm so beware. Do what YOU

want.

Do take care of your anemia!

Bye,

Ku