Fibroids are stimulated by the hormone estrogen, produced
naturally in your body. These growths can show up as early as age
20 and shrink after menopause when your body stops producing large amounts of
estrogen.
- Fibroids can be tiny and cause no problems, but they can also
grow to weigh several pounds. They grow slowly. Some women with
many fibroids may have an inherited tendency toward developing
them.
- The following factors have been associated with the growth of
fibroids:
- Being overweight, obesity
- Never having given birth to a child (called nulliparity)
- Onset of your period prior to age 10
- African American heritage (occurring 3-9 times more often
than in Caucasian women)
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Fibroids Symptoms
Most fibroids, even large ones, produce no symptoms. These
masses are often found during your regular pelvic
examination.
When you do experience symptoms, the most common are these:
- Irregular vaginal bleeding or an increase in menstrual
bleeding, known as menorrhagia, sometimes with blood clots
- Pressure on the bladder, which may cause you to urinate often
and feel a sense of urgency to urinate and, rarely, the
inability to urinate
- Pelvic pressure, "feeling full" in the lower abdomen, lower
abdominal pain
- Increase in size around your waist and change in abdominal
contour (You may need to increase your clothing size but not
because of a significant weight gain.)
-
Infertility, which is defined as an inability to
become pregnant after 1 year of attempting to get
pregnant
- A pelvic mass discovered by your health care provider during
a physical examination
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Date Published: Feb 22, 2009 - 1:30 pm