Will uterine fibroids affect life expectancy?

Will uterine fibroids affect life expectancy? In life, many female friends have irregular diets, smoking and drinking and other bad habits, which lead to many gynecological diseases, especially uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids seriously affect health and even cause infertility. So, will uterine fibroids affect life expectancy? Let's take a look.

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors and may recur after removal, but as long as they do not turn malignant before removal, they will not have much impact on the body and will not affect the patient's life span. However, everyone should pay attention to it. As long as the disease occurs, we should actively go to the hospital for examination and treatment to avoid serious consequences caused by the development of the disease.

Patients with uterine fibroids have long-term menorrhagia, which can easily lead to secondary anemia and even anemic heart disease. In severe cases, they may suffer from general fatigue, pale complexion, shortness of breath, palpitations, and other symptoms. Uterine fibroids can also lead to infertility, miscarriage, premature birth, and other complications during delivery. During pregnancy, the influence of uterine fibroids can cause abdominal pain and uterine contractions, which need to be differentiated from premature birth.

If the patient with uterine fibroids has symptoms of compression, anemia, large fibroids, or rapid growth, then surgery is necessary. For some patients, we will remove the fibroids and preserve the uterus. For these patients, the recurrence rate after surgery is about 20-30%.

The treatment of uterine fibroids depends on age, size, location, and growth rate. It is a personalized treatment and there is no unified standard. Finally, we need to remind everyone that any fibroids, whether benign or malignant, need timely treatment, so everyone must actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment.