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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:

• 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

• Pressure on the rectum, resulting in constipation

• 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