What is the reason for a long menstrual cycle? Is a long menstrual cycle a symptom of uterine fibroids?

Since most uterine fibroids have no symptoms, they are easily ignored by most women and are usually found during routine gynecological examinations or pre-pregnancy safety checks. In fact, at this time, the fibroids have been developing for some time, and some patients will show symptoms such as menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea. In severe cases, they may also experience difficulty in pregnancy and habitual miscarriage.

TCM uterine fibroids experts remind most women that when preventing uterine fibroids, you can detect the disease by observing the menstrual cycle, because uterine fibroids may cause women to have a long menstrual cycle. The number, location, size and degeneration of uterine fibroids will have different symptoms, but most patients have no symptoms. Most women with uterine fibroids may not know that they have uterine fibroids. Many people do not go to the hospital until they have a physical examination after pregnancy or the fibroids can be touched from the abdomen. Some patients will experience menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea and other phenomena. If the fibroids are too large and compress the bladder and ureters, it may cause frequent urination, urination disorders, renal pelvic water, and compress the rectum, which may cause difficulty in defecation; uterine fibroids may also cause infertility. At present, there are many ways to treat uterine fibroids. Women who have sex are best to have a gynecological examination every six months or every year.

By observing the changes in the menstrual cycle, we can detect early uterine fibroids in time, which requires female friends to be careful in daily life. If the disease is found, two tendencies should be prevented. One is mental tension, sleep and food disturbances, seeking treatment everywhere, and believing in folk prescriptions; the other is carelessness, refusing to take medicine, leading to severe anemia, inability to work, and even rapid increase of uterine fibroids, and malignant changes of fibroids are not diagnosed and treated in time.

Through the above detailed introduction, we have understood the relationship between long menstrual cycle and uterine fibroids, and I hope you can apply it in your daily life. If you have any common sense about uterine fibroids, you can communicate with our experts and they will give you a detailed answer.