What Are the Treatments for Uterine Fibroids?
Treatment for fibroids varies according to your specific medical situation. If your fibroids aren’t causing you any problems, you may want to consider doing nothing. Not all fibroids grow. Even large fibroids may not cause any symptoms, and most fibroids shrink after menopause. But you should monitor their growth — especially if you develop symptoms such as bleeding or pain — by having frequent examinations, every 6 months. Hormone Therapy To help prevent further fibroid growth, your physician may recommend that you stop taking oral contraceptives or abandon any hormone replacement therapy, since these supply the body with synthetic estrogen. In some cases, though, oral contraceptives are prescribed to help control the bleeding and anemia from fibroids, even though certain forms of the pill may cause fibroids to grow. GnRH Agonists Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists may be prescribed as a presurgical treatment to shrink fibroids. This therapy puts a woman in a pseudo-meno
