Why did the doctor say, “Don’t deal with the fibroids when they are small and operate when they grow up”?

  I met a fibroid patient who asked a very representative question, which is also a question that many fibroid patients are quite confused about, so I think it is necessary to give you a scientific explanation.  I think it’s important to explain to you that we can only wait for the fibroids to grow and then have surgery.  I have a fibroid of about 3 centimeters, and I went to several hospitals to check that the fibroid was too small to be operated on, so I waited. I’ve been to a few hospitals where they don’t operate on fibroids that are too small, but only after they’ve grown? The actual fact is that you can’t get a lot of money from the company. I don’t understand what kind of reasoning the hospital doctor has! I’ve already had two C-sections, and I’m still having C-sections for fibroids in a few years? It’s really speechless!”  ”I want to get rid of the fibroids while they are small, so why do I have to wait until they are big? I don’t understand the advice given to me by the hospital doctor!” Do you all have the same doubts? Why not deal with the fibroids when they are small, but must wait until they are large, so that it is not more harmful? I’ll tell you what the reasoning is here.  First of all, fibroids are too small to be easily handled by minimally invasive surgery: think about it, fibroids are not more than 5 centimeters, plus they may be multiple (ultrasound cannot detect them all), so it is very difficult to handle them. Previously, we saw a patient, Ms. Zhang from Mulin, Heilongjiang, who had adenomyosis combined with fibroids. She had 136 fibroids removed at one time during the uterus-preserving U surgery, and the lesions were very numerous, some as big as an egg and some even smaller than a grain of rice. If done purely by minimally invasive means, it is very tricky to deal with them. Large fibroids can be easily detected and resolved, but particularly small ones may be missed and incompletely treated. To use an analogy, which is easier, picking up beans or picking up sesame seeds, it must be easier to get the bigger ones. Therefore, the general hospital recommends that too small not to do surgery, let wait, in addition, the symptoms are not serious, the fibroids grow slowly 60% of women have fibroids, of which only 1% of patients need surgery, most patients have fibroids grow very slowly, to 50 years old when menopause naturally shrink. When they shrink, there are no symptoms. Naturally, there is no need to treat them.  Finally, the symptoms are not serious, no pain, no need for surgery: to operate or not, many times is to refer to the symptoms of the disease, and most patients with fibroids, the symptoms of the disease is not serious. The purpose of surgery is to solve the patient’s pain, so that they can stop suffering and resume their normal work life. If the patient is not suffering at all, there is no need to operate blindly, not for the sake of surgery. So in this respect, many patients with fibroids do not need surgery.  The above is my answer to the patient’s question, and I hope it will be helpful for fibroids patients.