Advice for a friend re fibroids ttc 5 years

[Iamneverfull]

Hello,
My friend has been trying for a baby for 5 years and is very down after seeing the gynaecologist today. She has 3 big fibroids, 7cm, 5cm and 3cm and many small ones inside the womb. The doctor told her it was very unlikely she will get pregnant and want to remove the fibroids. The risk is the lining will be too thin for her to carry the baby. Or if she leaves the fibroids then the fibroids will take all the blood which should be going to the baby. She has already had an open myoctomy and embolization, something went wrong and they left the fibroid in and they didn't tell her. When she went back after very heavy bleeding, fainting they thought it had grown back in a month and they told her it could be cancer and they would do a hysterectomy. Luckily the mistake was realised and she didn't have this done, but she was traumatized thinking she had cancer and would lose her womb. I think she would like to know if there is anyone who can give any advice, is there a really good person to see in the uk or anywhere else and she would just like some hope as at the moment she feels like its all gone. Any advice would be lovely. Thank you

I have 5 fibroids. The biggest is 5cm. It took me a year to get pregnant but everything was fine. I understand it’s possible for fibroids to thicken during pregnancy like the rest of the womb does, and if that happens it’s a serious problem, but luckily it didn’t happen to me.

The doctor knows best though. If he said that pregnancy is unlikely and possibly dangerous, believe him. I’d definitely get a second opinion though. I’ve never heard of fibroids ”taking all the blood”. Surely the placenta is the blood supply? And I was told that removing my fibroids wouldn’t help me to get pregnant because the fibroids would just be replaced with scar tissue which was equally not viable for a foetus to implant into.

Thank you, yes i think she must mean the placenta? Congratulations too

Big fibroids, especially if there are many of them, can cause miscarriages stillbirths and physical deformities. However; the ones you’ve mentioned don’t seem huge. I suggest she makes an appointment with a fertility clinic and pays for a full fertility check up. GPs don’t really know much about infertility.