Drugs cannot completely eradicate uterine fibroids

Although uterine fibroids are a benign tumor, their harmfulness cannot be ignored. Because many patients with uterine fibroids need to have their uterus removed during surgery, which causes women to lose their fertility, so in many cases, if the fibroids are not too serious, doctors recommend that everyone use uterine fibroid drug treatment, but there are many misunderstandings about uterine fibroid drug treatment.

Misunderstandings about drug treatment of uterine fibroids. Due to subjective and objective reasons, the incidence of uterine fibroids has increased significantly. Many women get nervous when they find fibroids and start asking doctors for "medicine". Various Chinese and Western medicines for the treatment of fibroids have appeared one after another, with a clear purpose: patients want to "eliminate" or "shrink" fibroids.

Chinese medicine is only symptomatic for the drug treatment of uterine fibroids, that is, it can relieve some symptoms caused by fibroids, and is effective for menorrhagia, back pain, etc. However, Chinese medicine cannot inhibit the growth of fibroids.

There are many hormones used for drug treatment of uterine fibroids. Hormonal drug treatment of uterine fibroids can be summarized in four sentences: long medication time, effective during treatment, side effects throughout the entire medication process, rebound after stopping the drug. The concept of hormone drug treatment of uterine fibroids comes from three aspects: no fibroids before menarche, the incidence of fibroids decreases with the increase in the number of pregnancies, and fibroids shrink after menopause. These phenomena suggest that drugs that counteract estrogen and progesterone can inhibit fibroids. Hormonal treatment can shrink fibroids on the surface, but it is not a decrease in the number of fibroid cells, but a decrease in cell volume. After stopping the drug, the cells grow rapidly and a "rebound" phenomenon occurs. To make an analogy, fibroids are like a sponge that absorbs water. The role of the drug is only to squeeze out the water and reduce the volume. Once the drug is stopped, the sponge immediately reabsorbs the water, grows, and a "rebound" occurs. In view of the above treatment effects and results, my view is that hormone drugs can be used for some special patients or special situations, such as young and childless, severe symptoms but unable to undergo surgical treatment in the short term, and hormones close to menopausal age may allow patients to transition to near-term menstruation, thereby avoiding surgical treatment.

The above are some misunderstandings about drug treatment of uterine fibroids. Although uterine fibroids are very harmful, there is currently no specific drug that can completely eliminate uterine fibroids. Most drugs can only temporarily control the growth rate of fibroids, which is what we often call symptomatic treatment, but it still does not fundamentally solve the problem of fibroids.

I hope that patients can clearly understand this knowledge while receiving drug treatment for uterine fibroids and taking the right medicine.

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