The most common symptom of uterine fibroids is an abdominal mass

The most common symptom of uterine fibroids is abdominal mass, and people can usually find the disease after touching this symptom. So do you know what the symptoms of uterine fibroids are? This is a question that people ask a lot, and the following authoritative experts will explain it to you in detail.

The main symptoms of uterine fibroids are as follows:

1. Abdominal mass:

Patients feel abdominal lumps themselves, mostly after uterine fibroids grow out of the pelvic cavity. It is often obvious in the early morning when the bladder is full on an empty stomach. It is one of the common symptoms of uterine fibroids. Because the uterus and fibroids are pushed upward, it is easy for patients to touch them themselves. If the uterus is larger than 4 to 5 months of pregnancy, it can also be touched when the bladder is not full. Uterine fibroids are generally located in the middle of the lower abdomen, and a few may be located on one side of the lower abdomen. They are hard or have an uneven feeling. Larger ones are more likely to be degenerated, softer and smoother. Most grow slowly. A very small number may grow faster or be accompanied by dull pain, and malignant changes should be suspected.

2. Pain:

The symptoms of this type of uterine fibroids are that the tumor compresses the pelvic blood vessels, causing congestion, or compresses the nerves, or the pedicled submucosal fibroids can stimulate uterine contraction, which is discharged from the uterine cavity to the outside, causing the cervical canal to widen and cause pain; or the necrosis and infection of the fibroids cause pelvic inflammatory disease, adhesions, traction, etc. If some individuals have red degeneration of uterine fibroids, the abdominal pain is more severe and accompanied by fever. Acute and severe abdominal pain also occurs when the pedicle of the uterine subserosal fibroids is torsion or the axial torsion of the uterus. Large subserosal fibroids grow into the broad ligament, which can not only compress the nerves and blood vessels to cause pain, but also compress the ureters to cause ureteral or renal hydrops and cause low back pain. Those with severe and progressive dysmenorrhea are often caused by uterine fibroids complicated by adenomyosis or endometriosis. This is also a common symptom of uterine fibroids.

3. Uterine bleeding:

Symptoms of this type of uterine fibroids occur in half or more of the patients. Most of them are excessive menstrual flow, prolonged menstruation or shortened menstrual cycle, accounting for about 2/3; persistent or irregular bleeding accounts for 1/3, which are also common symptoms of uterine fibroids. Bleeding is mainly caused by intramural fibroids and submucosal fibroids. Intramural fibroids often have periodic bleeding, while submucosal fibroids often show irregular bleeding. Subserosal fibroids rarely cause uterine bleeding, and in some cases, the menstrual flow is reduced.

The above is the explanation given by experts on the symptoms of uterine fibroids. Experts remind that if you cannot distinguish the type of disease, the best way is to go to the hospital for examination. Do not take medicine at random according to your own will, which will worsen the condition or cause other diseases.