4 Common misconceptions about fibroid

4 Common misconceptions about fibroid

When women are diagnosed with uterine fibroid, they often become terrified because there are many misinformations out there about fibroid. In fact, fibroid is a benign tumor and about 50% of women having fibroid, but most fibroids are asymptomatic and harmless. Anyway, we will highlight the most common misconceptions about fibroid and correct them.

  1. Fibroid is a cancer

Fact: fibroid is a benign tumor and rarely transforms into cancerous lesion.

  1. If you have a fibroid, this means you will undergo hysterectomy

Fact: initial management of fibroid involves medical treatment (mainly hormonal) with high success rate. Surgical intervention (hysterectomy) is used only in resistant cases and old women who completed their family.

  1. Fibroid will cause infertility

Fact: fibroid rarely interfere with women's fertility; medical studies showed that 50% of women have fibroids which is used to be asymptomatic and has no effect on fertility. Even if fibroid is removed surgically, the uterus could be maintained intact for pregnancy.

  1. Having urgency of urination and constipation means having fibroid

Fact: having chest pain doesn't always mean having a heart attack; it's the same with fibroid. Fibroid is usually manifested with urgency and constipation, but urgency could be for example a sign for diabetes and constipation could be a sign for GIT problem. Anyway fibroid is diagnosed mainly by ultrasound or MRI.


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