Fibroid Treatment

If you have fibroids, you should be evaluated periodically to review symptoms, and to monitor the fibroid and uterus size with abdominal and pelvic examinations. If you don't have symptoms, routine pelvic ultrasounds have very little benefit. Fibroids are likely to grow each year until menopause, but this isn't an indication that you need treatment, unless the change is accompanied by disabling symptoms.

Fibroids in the uterus are tumors that develop in or on the walls of the uterus. They are common and not typically cancerous. Fibroids do not always cause symptoms, but can cause pain and bleeding.