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I had my scan today. They found uterine fibroids. According to google, these can cause frequent urination and other bladder problems. It says the treatment is hormonal meds, with surgery to remove them as a last option. I don’t want hormonal meds for many reasons, I just want to go straight to the surgery, but we all know what the NHS is like. I bet if they do anything about it at all, it will be just pumping me full of drugs with terrible side effects that don’t even help.
I think this girl I used to talk to had uterine fibroids. I’m NOT a doctor and I can’t say what you need, but if you ever start having endless periods I think they took Lupron to shrink the fribroids so there’d be less bleeding during surgery. I think she was able to keep her uterus. Idk if they all eventually cause bleeding, but if so, you’re very lucky to have found them before the any bleeding.
Talk to your doctor about if this sounds right: Might as well start shrinking them now if it helps future surgery results.
Again, not a doctor, so I may be misleading you a bit. Just giving you ideas of things to ask questions about.
My periods seem to have stopped altogether. Thanks for the tips but I won’t take any more meds, especially hormonal ones.
I’m not sure if I’m relieved for you because I don’t know if that’s better or worse. You may have a whole other set of problems, but I’m happy you don’t need regular blood transfusions like that girl did. She was dizzy and tired from losing a lot of blood and still had to work. Now the words “uterine fibroids” scare me and make me fear for whoever has them. I dearly hope you’re in a more ideal situation than what she was in.
Thanks. I have no idea whether these fibroids are causing my problems or not, and I don’t know if my periods seem to have have stopped now due to my age or something else, but I can’t take more meds. I already have far too many side effects from all the meds I’m on already and hormonal meds could really harm me as I’ve had a stroke already (which was a side effect of my thyroid meds). I’m drugged up to the eyeballs and can’t take any more. I just want it cut out if it’s what’s causing my problems.
Side effects suck. You know your body and I understand not wanting to be chock full of meds.