What are the symptoms of uterine fibroids? How to treat uterine fibroids with minimal harm

Uterine fibroids are a gynecological disease and a benign tumor of the female reproductive system. It has a high incidence rate and great harm. I believe that when female friends talk about uterine fibroids, they may tremble. These are all due to insufficient understanding of uterine fibroids. In fact, most uterine fibroids, as long as we pay attention to observation in life, we can still find many symptoms, and according to these symptoms, take different treatments and methods.

If you are diagnosed with uterine fibroids, you should seek treatment as soon as possible. You should know that uterine fibroids are very harmful, and patients can treat them differently based on different symptoms.

1. Observation. Which fibroids can be observed? If you are near menopause and have no obvious symptoms, check every three or six months. B-ultrasound: Even if there are fibroids, but no symptoms, you can have regular follow-up examinations.

2. Patients with irregular vaginal bleeding outside of menstruation can undergo diagnostic curettage and pathological examination.

3. Drug treatment. If the menstrual volume is heavy, you can choose androgen drugs, which can counteract estrogen, shrink the endometrium, shrink the uterine smooth muscle and vascular smooth muscle, and reduce bleeding. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment can also reduce the menstrual volume, but it is not obvious for fibroids.

4. Surgical treatment. It is suitable for patients with large fibroids, obvious symptoms, and ineffective non-surgical treatment.

Although uterine fibroids have no obvious symptoms, they can still be found through physical examination. Depending on the size and location, they may cause the following symptoms:

1. Compression symptoms. Larger posterior wall fibroids may compress the rectum and cause constipation, and larger broad ligament fibroids may compress the ureter.

2. Pain. The twisting of a subserosal pedunculated fibroid can cause sudden pain, and sometimes a submucosal fibroid can cause dysmenorrhea.

3. Infertility can cause infertility in women of childbearing age, but the proportion is not very high.

4. Bleeding from the submucosal fascia and myomas will increase the area of ​​the uterine cavity and increase the amount of menstruation.