The symptoms were more obvious when she drank more water. She thought it was a urinary tract infection and visited the hospital, where she was told that the gynecological disease fibroids were to blame. You must feel very strange, why the disease on the uterus but appear urinary symptoms? Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumors of the reproductive organs in middle-aged women, with about one in five women suffering from fibroids on average. Uterine fibroids are usually asymptomatic and many women find them only during a physical examination. However, symptoms may occur if the fibroids are too large, too numerous or in an abnormal location, such as the frequent urination symptoms Xiao Wang experienced. If the fibroids are close to the bladder and rectum, they can press on these organs and cause urinary or gastrointestinal symptoms such as frequent urination, difficulty in urination and poor bowel movement. This condition is mainly seen in submucosal and interstitial fibroids. Uterine fibroids usually do not cause pain, but if a patient with fibroids has abdominal pain, it may be due to degeneration or reversal of the fibroids, so you should go to the hospital immediately if you have abdominal pain. However, patients with uterine fibroids should not panic because most of the fibroid degeneration is benign and the malignancy rate is only 0.4%-1.25%. The diagnosis of uterine fibroids is generally simple, physicians can generally diagnose most of them based on gynecological examination and the most commonly used ultrasound examination, a few patients need to rely on MRI and other assistance in diagnosis. The most important question is: Do not all patients with fibroids need surgery? The answer is not necessarily. An individualized plan should be given after a comprehensive evaluation based on the patient’s age, symptoms, size and location of fibroids, and whether or not they have fertility requirements. The usual treatment methods are as follows: 1. Observation: So some patients with no symptoms and small fibroids (uterus less than 10 weeks gestation uterus size) can be reviewed every 3-6 months. Fibroids are hormone-dependent tumors and can gradually shrink and become smaller after menopause as estrogen in the body decreases. 2, in addition, some women with small fibroids, mild symptoms or combined medical or surgical diseases that cannot be operated or patients who do not want to operate can choose uterine artery embolization, bilateral uterine artery embolization to block the blood supply of fibroids, so that the fibroids gradually shrink. In addition, drug treatment can also be applied, such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, but drug treatment takes a long time, usually 3-6 months, and the fibroids can still rebound after stopping the drug. 3.Surgical treatment has been regarded as the most thorough method to treat fibroids, including myomectomy and total hysterectomy. So which patients need surgery? Usually patients with fertility requirements (fibroids causing infertility or recurrent miscarriages) or those who require preservation of the uterus can undergo myomectomy, while patients without fertility requirements, older, with uterus larger than or equal to the size of a 12-week gestational uterus, with fibroids growing too fast or with severe symptoms that affect normal daily life can undergo total hysterectomy. In recent years, with the development of minimally invasive surgery, more and more laparoscopic and hysteroscopic treatments for uterine fibroids have been carried out clinically, which have the advantages of short operation time, less intraoperative bleeding, quick recovery and short hospital stay, but if the fibroids are too large or too many, minimally invasive surgery is not suitable. Therefore, the physician will choose the appropriate surgical method according to the patient’s condition to achieve better treatment results. In addition, how long it is better to get pregnant after surgery for women with fertility requirements should be decided according to the location of the fibroids, such as subplasmic or submucosal fibroids, which usually do not require contraception and can be conceived directly, while for interstitial fibroids, especially if they are large or multiple, contraception is recommended for about six months to a year. Another concern is what to pay attention to in the daily diet of fibroids patients. The patient with uterine fibroids should have a light diet, not eat mutton, shrimp, crab, black fish and other hairy products, avoid stimulating foods and drinks, forbidden to eat cinnamon, red dates, royal jelly and other hot, clotting and hormone-containing foods. Studies have shown that family history of fibroids, history of pelvic inflammatory disease, early menstruation, obesity and smoking are closely related to the occurrence of fibroids. Therefore, women with the above mentioned factors should have regular medical checkups to detect fibroids earlier.