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When you have fibroids, there is a phase in which nothing seems to happen. The doctors tell you to “watch and wait” as if something fantastic and wonderful is going happen in the meantime. They don’t give you any therapy, because it is a known fact that dropping the levels of estrogen reduces fibroids, and in some cases, under the right circumstances, the fibroids may stop growing on their own. In this line of reasoning, this “dropping the levels of estrogen” is the problematic part. If it happens in your body in a natural way, perhaps because you already are in perimenopause and the onset of the menopause is just around the corner, then indeed watching and waiting, i.e. doing nothing, can set you free from fibroids. But what if you are 37 and there is no perimenopause in sight? Well, there are options and some of them are really just a roundabout way to the dreaded hysterectomy.

Your doctor may reach for a hormonal therapy which will induce a temporary menopause. The fibroids do stop to grow and you get hot flashes, dry vagina and all sorts of negative aspects of a true menopause. Once the hormonal therapy stops, the fibroids usually return with a vengeance. In western medicine, nothing else is to “help you” so the good doctor spread his hands, hangs up his shoulders and tell you about the imminent hysterectomy. You struggle and succumb after a while, and then tell everyone how it was the best thing you ever did in your entire life, how you do not know why it took you so long to decide and so on, ad nauseam and ad infinitum.

That whole situation is researched and statistically processed, so it is a realistic scenario to which “watching and waiting” is leading you to.

A gringa in New Orleans has a good post on seven reasons why she wouldn’t like to have a hysterectomy. Here is my comment on her blog:

I run a site on how to avoid hysterectomy. I can only aplaude your willingness to try something else than the western medicine and their ultimate chopping solution known as the hysterectomy.

Anything under the sun needs food to grow, and your fibroids are no exception. The food which helps fibroids to grow are your emotions. There must be some emotional leakage in your life so fixing that will make a platform for all other alternative techniques to heal you.

In terms of physiology, the emotional leakage is known as “oestrogen dominance”. Fibroids come about because the estrogen receptors are stimulated too much, regardless of your periods and usual hormonal flows. So make your emotional peace and that will be the start of healing.

What would be your reasons to not have a hysterectomy? Make a list of abstract reasons and then make a parallel list of actions you would undertake to actually avoid the hysterectomy.

See the start of the main article of this site, How To Avoid Hysterectomy, for further information about hysterectomy and methods and techniques to either cure it or to switch to a lesser, non-invasive uterus-preserving kinds of surgery.

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