Comments on: Shrinking Fibroids Naturally Video http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/hysterectomy/shrinking-fibroids-naturally-video/ Homeopathy, Reiki, Bach flower remedies, herbal remedies, crystals, medical astrology... Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dusko Savic http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/hysterectomy/shrinking-fibroids-naturally-video/#comment-406 Dusko Savic Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:02:31 +0000 http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/?p=110#comment-406 Thank you for stopping by and delivering all this useful additional info on fibroids Regards, Dusko Thank you for stopping by and delivering all this useful additional info on fibroids

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]]> By: Nora W Coffey http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/hysterectomy/shrinking-fibroids-naturally-video/#comment-397 Nora W Coffey Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:34:31 +0000 http://www.how-to-avoid-hysterectomy.com/?p=110#comment-397 Fibroids are benign growths of muscle and connective tissue that grow until you reach menopause. Then they slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size, and become small and calcified. The average size of the uterus (including fibroids) in the late 30s to early 40s is a 10-12 week pregnancy (about 13cm in the largest dimension); in the middle 40’s, the average size of the uterus including fibroids is the size of a 14-16 week pregnancy (about 17cm in the largest dimension); and in the late 40s to early 50s, the average size of the uterus including fibroids is the size of a 18-20 week pregnancy (about 21cm in the largest dimension). Fibroids have two rapid growth spurts that are natural, predictable and not a cause for alarm. The first rapid growth spurt is in the late 30’s to early 40’s, followed by a few years of slower growth. Right before you go through menopause, when you have the hormone changes associated with the beginning of menopause, the fibroids will have a second, and last, rapid growth spurt. Then they will slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size. Most women develop all of the new fibroids they are going to have in their late 30's. Occasionally women develop new fibroids develop in their early 40's. Usually at about the age of 40, a woman has all of the fibroids she is ever going to have. Both estrogen and progesterone stimulate fibroid growth, and some foods (for example, eating large amounts of soy) can also stimulate excess estrogen production, which in turn makes fibroids grow. There is an abundance of advertising of products such as vitamins and other substances that promise to reduce the size of the fibroids or eliminate them entirely, but many are ineffective, and others actually cause fibroids to grow rapidly. The so-called "natural" progesterone yam cream is promoted as a way to shrink fibroids, but in fact it makes them grow. Fibroids are not a disease, they are your genetic blueprint. Much like the color of your hair and eyes, if they are common among the women in your family, you are more likely to develop them. A woman never needs a hysterectomy for fibroids unless she has the wrong doctor. Most fibroids do not cause symptoms, but if you have symptoms like somewhat heavier menstrual bleeding or pressure on the bladder that causes urinary frequency, it is a nuisance, not a medical problem. If you can live with the symptoms it would be better than needless intervention of any kind. If you cannot live with the symptoms, a myomectomy (surgical removal of fibroids leaving the uterus intact) is a reasonable option. Myomectomy is a major operation. But unlike hysterectomy, endometrial ablation, and uterine fibroid embolization (www.uterinearteryembolization.org), which are destructive, myomectomy is constructive. The incidence of hysterectomy after undergoing one of the destructive alternatives is high, because these procedures themselves often do irreparable damage to the uterus, ovaries, and other internal organs. The only fibroids that cause extremely heavy menstrual bleeding are submucosal. They are located in the inside layer of the uterus—in the endometrium. Even tiny submucosal fibroids can causing extremely heavy menstruation with very large blood clots. Small fibroids (under 4cm) that are causing heavy bleeding and large blood clots can by shelled out in a procedure called a resection, using a hysteroscope, which is an outpatient surgery in which a long scope called a hysteroscope is inserted into the vagina, into the cervix, and into the uterus. A tool is attached to the scope, and the gynecologist chips away at the fibroid until nothing remains but the shell. It sounds like simple surgery, but it requires skill and experience to shell out the fibroid without perforating the uterus. Submucosal fibroids that are larger than 4cm, and fibroids in other locations (intramural, in the middle wall of the uterus, or subserosal, in the outside wall of the uterus) can be removed with a myomectomy if they cause symptoms you cannot live with until menopause. Myomectomy is a major operation, but the uterus and its many life long important functions remain intact. Hysterectomy, removal of the uterus, causes many well documented, permanent life-altering problems. http://hersfoundation.com/. Visit http://hersfoundation.com/anatomy/ and watch the short video “Female Anatomy: the Functions of the Female Organs”. HERS Foundation 610-667-7757 hersfdn@earthlink.net Fibroids are benign growths of muscle and connective tissue that grow until you reach menopause. Then they slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size, and become small and calcified.

The average size of the uterus (including fibroids) in the late 30s to
early 40s is a 10-12 week pregnancy (about 13cm in the largest
dimension); in the middle 40’s, the average size of the uterus including fibroids is the size of a 14-16 week pregnancy (about 17cm in the largest dimension); and in the late 40s to early 50s, the average size of the uterus including fibroids is the size of a 18-20 week pregnancy (about 21cm in the largest dimension).

Fibroids have two rapid growth spurts that are natural, predictable and not a cause for alarm. The first rapid growth spurt is in the late 30’s to early 40’s, followed by a few years of slower growth. Right before you go through menopause, when you have the hormone changes associated with the beginning of menopause, the fibroids will have a second, and last, rapid growth spurt. Then they will
slowly and gradually shrink to a negligible size.

Most women develop all of the new fibroids they are going to have in their late 30′s. Occasionally women develop new fibroids develop in their early 40′s. Usually at about the age of 40, a woman has all of the fibroids she is ever going to have.

Both estrogen and progesterone stimulate fibroid growth, and some
foods (for example, eating large amounts of soy) can also stimulate excess estrogen production, which in turn makes fibroids grow. There is an abundance of advertising of products such as vitamins and other substances that promise to reduce the size of the fibroids or eliminate them entirely, but many are ineffective, and others actually cause fibroids to grow rapidly. The so-called “natural” progesterone yam cream is promoted as a way to shrink fibroids, but in fact it makes
them grow.

Fibroids are not a disease, they are your genetic blueprint. Much like the color of your hair and eyes, if they are common among the women in your family, you are more likely to develop them.
A woman never needs a hysterectomy for fibroids unless she has the wrong doctor. Most fibroids do not cause symptoms, but if you have symptoms like somewhat heavier menstrual bleeding or pressure on the bladder that causes urinary frequency, it is a nuisance, not a medical problem. If you can live with the symptoms it would be better than needless intervention of any kind. If you cannot live with the
symptoms, a myomectomy (surgical removal of fibroids leaving the
uterus intact) is a reasonable option. Myomectomy is a major
operation. But unlike hysterectomy, endometrial ablation, and uterine
fibroid embolization (www.uterinearteryembolization.org), which are destructive, myomectomy is constructive. The incidence of hysterectomy after undergoing one of the destructive alternatives is high, because these procedures themselves often do irreparable damage to the uterus, ovaries, and other internal organs.

The only fibroids that cause extremely heavy menstrual bleeding are submucosal. They are located in the inside layer of the uterus—in the endometrium. Even tiny submucosal fibroids can causing extremely heavy menstruation with very large blood clots. Small fibroids
(under 4cm) that are causing heavy bleeding and large blood clots can by shelled out in a procedure called a resection, using a hysteroscope, which is an outpatient surgery in which a long scope called a hysteroscope is inserted into the vagina, into the cervix, and into the uterus. A tool is attached to the scope, and the gynecologist chips away at the fibroid until nothing remains but the shell. It sounds like simple surgery, but it requires skill and experience to shell out the fibroid without perforating the uterus.

Submucosal fibroids that are larger than 4cm, and fibroids in other locations (intramural, in the middle wall of the uterus, or subserosal, in the outside wall of the uterus) can be removed with a myomectomy if they cause symptoms you cannot live with until menopause. Myomectomy is a major operation, but the uterus and its many life long important functions remain intact.

Hysterectomy, removal of the uterus, causes many well documented, permanent life-altering problems.
http://hersfoundation.com/.
Visit http://hersfoundation.com/anatomy/ and watch the short video “Female Anatomy: the Functions of the Female Organs”.

HERS Foundation
610-667-7757
hersfdn@earthlink.net

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