Help with fibroid - share your good news stories

[meandmygirl1]

I have just been diagnosed with a fibroid which is tiny compared to some I had read about here - it’s 3 cm - but it’s causing me to bleed heavily all the time. I am on iron tablets and transmexic acid and have just been given injection for false menopause that lasts three months; but I am still bleeding so much.

I am scheduled for operation to remove as much of the fibroid as they can as it’s in womb wall and then get coil fitted.

I am so fed up and wondered if anyone had any good news stories to share about treatment working to give me some hope.

Maybe I didn't explain it fully.
Earlier menopause ( not 'early menopause' ) is shown to occur usually within 2 years of a hysterectomy even when the ovaries are left.
If you kept your cervix they call that a sub-total hysterectomy, but not all women have that.
It's great you're feeling better but I wanted to point out the downsides for anyone else reading who might need to ask questions before making that choice. I wasn't criticising your experience if that is how it came over.

Do you mean if someone is close to menopause age anyway and then has the op?
I had mine at 39, now about to turn 45 and no peri yet. The surgeon and gynae said keeping the ovaries means the hormones stay and meno would occur at the age it always would have. Maybe it’s different if we have it before being close to peri.

My surgeon explained that while a subtotal hysterectomy does reduce some of the risk of early meno, part of the ovaries bloody supply actually comes from the uterus so by removing it, it does mean you're more likely to hit meno earlier than you would if you'd kept it.

The prolapse risks of hysterectomy are well documented - even if you keep your cervix - and there are techniques you can ask your surgeon to use to reduce the chances of having one.

Thanks for adding that @gofibrogofibrogo . I was going to look for a link for @Disturbia81 but you've helped out!

If you're not having periods @Disturbia81 , it can be hard to know if you're peri/post menopause or not. Not all women have symptoms. You could have blood tests that would show post-menopause, but they aren't always accurate.

You might want to think about asking your GP for a bone density scan because if in fact you are post menopausal (and have been perhaps for a couple of years), your bones are at a higher risk of losing density.

No I’ve had blood tests recently as part of a general health checkup and all normal levels, I still feel my monthly mood cycles and get a bit of blood from the cervix every month.
But thankyou for the info, maybe the surgeon did a careful job with everything! I’ve read that yes uterus can supply up to 15% blood supply to the ovaries but the body makes new routes after the op to make that up. And much more likely if only retained 1 ovary. Interesting to know there are risks
but really they are small in comparison to the joy of a life free of a womb.