She says she was told "'that's just how periods can be' and 'come back when you want to get pregnant'" when she tried to get help.

My OB/GYN thought differently and sent me for an ultrasound, which showed that my fibroids had more than doubled in size in two years. They were squishing my uterus, causing it to bleed.

As a gynecologist, I often encounter patients with symptoms such as pelvic discomfort, abnormal menstrual bleeding, or ...

Uterine fibroids are tumors made of muscle that can grow on your uterus. They rarely turn into cancer. Many women have uterine fibroids. You might not even know you have them, since they don’t ...

In turn this has increased the size of fibroids that can be treated using minimally invasive routes. Traditionally hysterectomy has been the main modality of treatment of uterine fibroids ...

A daily oral therapy for uterine fibroids has been recommended for NHS by NICE, providing a new option for around 30,000 women in England and Wales. Theramex's GnRH antagonist Yselty (linzagolix ...

The majority of women with uterine fibroids are asymptomatic, consequently get less clinical attention and fibroid tumors often remain undiagnosed. [23,24] Symptomatic women typically complain ...

Ms Johnson never knew her uterine fibroids were affecting her fertility ... “They can grow very slowly over a number of years to become of a size where they start to impact on symptoms.” For ...

Signs of fibroids breaking down include pelvic or abdominal pain, bleeding, and fever. Fibroids, also called leiomyomas, are benign (noncancerous) tumors that grow inside or on the outer wall of the ...

Conditions or surgeries that cause adhesions or scarring in the pelvic area can also pull the uterus back and cause it to become retroverted. They include: Endometriosis Pelvic inflammatory disease ...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile land first collaborative chart-topper ...