I am most happy that we have choices and we can make our own decision for our health. I hope for the day when all women of the world will have their own say of their bodies. I wish everyone well on their journey. Peace

I’ve had three of the one-month shots, except my drug is called Lucrin. Same drug, different name where I live. I had barely any shrinkage in the first two months and was pretty gutted, but three weeks later i had another scan and the fibroid had shrunk from around 10cm at the largest dimension, to around 8.cm. Taking into account that the other two measurements had some shrinkage too, that works out at about 40% less volume, which is awesome as far as I’m concerned.

I haven’t had any of the moodiness or loss of sex drive I was worried about. The main symptom has been some crazy hot flashes throughout the day and night, which are annoying but easy to cope with as they only last a few minutes. I also have some muscle aches, particularly in my legs when I stand up after sitting down for a while, but that may not be related to the shots.

Other than that it’s all been good and i may be able to have a laparoscopic myomectomy next week, rather than the big open abdominal myomectomy. I won’t actually find out which I’ve had until I wake up, so please keep your fingers crossed for me ladies.

I hope all goes well with you if you’re taking Lupron, please keep posting your experiences.

My op is scheduled for next Tuesday (17th). Like Agnes above, my doctor is hoping to do a lap myo, but with a view that it may have to be an open ab myo. I’ve also been on lupron for the last three months. It has shrunk the fibroid a little – the biggest dimension was over 10cm and it’s now around 8.5. It doesn’t sound like much but in terms of volume the shrinkage works out at nearly 40% so i’m pleased with that. Fingers crossed my doc can do the myo laparoscopically as i am dreading dealing with the large incision.

I have two questions. Firstly, did anyone have their incision glued shut? How did that go? Does it keep the wound closed effectively?

Also, I’m unfortunately a couple of stone overweight and have developed a rather impressive pot belly over the last year after comfort eating following a miscarriage. I’m worried the incision will be on the belly roll rather than below it, and that might make it difficult sitting down and moving about. Did anyone else have issues with the site of their incision? (I’m assuming not everyone has a flat stomach…)

I’m trying to stay positive and look past the initial physical problems with the op, and focus on the end result, but I’m finding it a little hard this week. Keep waking in the night a bit panicky. I’m assuming this is normal

This site has been fantastic in helping me to prepare for the operation. Thanks so much to all you ladies for posting your experiences. I’ll try to post asap after my op and share what happened.

Hope all of you are doing well and either healing up nicely, or waiting without too much worry.

I have Highmark and was diagnosed by gyno and had surgery 3 weeks later! Mine was mild bleeding.

First, I seem to recall that when we are pregnant, the volume of our blood increases dramatically, so you should be able to have some blood loss and have the baby be just fine.

Also, it isn’t as if the baby is bleeding, it was probably the fibroid or the uterus around it that is bleeding and unless it is bright red, it is probably left over residual blood making its way out of your body and you will probably stop spotting soon unless you start to bleed again.

Then, keep in mind that ‘huge’ amounts of blood is a very relative term. Any amount of blood loss when one is pregnant is horribly distressing… and what may seem to be a huge amount…maybe isn’t. I’m sure they asked you to describe how much you lost and maybe it really isn’t enough to cause a lot of concern to the docs. However, if it should happen again, try to find some way to measure the blood loss as the doctors will then have a much better idea of how serious the situation is.

I’m wondering if it was definitely the fibroid that caused the bleeding, and if they have any idea why?

Finally, i know I’ve read of other women with bleeding who go on to have perfectly healthy babies.

Good luck and keep us posted.

Yes the site was down but we got it up and working again (our Inquisitive Geek founder mysteriously disappeared in ‘07 and the domain name wasn’t renewed…but WordPress got it going for us). Glad to have you back!

I’m impressed that you only took 2 weeks off! Wow. You didn’t really say how that went… was it hard? Do you have a desk job or are you on your feet a lot? Also, I may have asked you this before, but if you liked your doc, I’m interested in getting his name, as I live in the area too. Curious too, did he do a vertical or horizontal incision, and how long were you in the hospital? Best to you!

There are several things I don’t like about the “wait until menopause” approach:
1. no guarantee when that will happen, meanwhile the fibroids may continue to grow, you become (more) anemic with everything that brings (I feel your whole body is affected and it takes a long time to recover from anemia), not to mention the worry, the mess, other symtoms etc.

2. shrinkage assumes the woman is not going to use hormone replacement therapy, and while many women now opt to stay away from hormones now, some women who have especially bad menopausal symptoms may benefit from taking them – at least for a year or two – as I have chosen to do on and off.

3. while it is possible that one won’t bleed as much following menopause (after all, I didn’t bleed horribly the entire month, just during my period), it doesn’t mean the other symptoms go away. They can still cause some incontinence, pain during intercourse, back pain, etc. My fibroid also makes me look a lot fatter than I really am (if it weren’t for my fibroids, my pants size would be 14 instead of 18.

I still want to look around for a doc who will do the myo… but I still want to do some research.. (of course, meanwhile, I’m just getting older!)

Find out how much fibroids actually shrink… I read somewhere that they actually shrink very little. Mine haven’t shrunk at all, even when I was off of HRT for almost a year.

So, if your main complaint is the bleeding, definitely look into the endo ablation. Best to you!

I’m 31 weeks pregnant. I have two fibroids,one small and the other was about 8cm at 20 weeks. This is my second pregnancy.
I had these two fibroids during my first pregnancy. My large fibroid grew to 12cm and caused me pain most of the way through my first pregnancy. I went on to give birth to lovely little girl who is now 18 months, so we are hoping that we will have the same outcome. Good luck to all of you with fibroids. I know it is very worrying and uncomfortable but i just wanted to say that sometimes the outcome can still be positive.