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just had a m/c at 16 weeks two weeks ago. My doctor said it was becuase of the three fibroids she found, one as big as a lemon. to be honest im a little jealous of those who got to have their babies with fibroids. i dont understand why i couldnt have mine. this whole experience is horrible. I had to give labor to her. before that i felt her water break, knowing what comes next is horrible . knowing your water is broken and there is nothing you or anyone can do about it. having to wait it out till i started labor pains. which wouldnt start on its own. they had to shove these pilles up my cervix in order to help me go into labour. the first one didnt work, but the second one did. all i kept saying was no no no no they told me to stop holding on and to push. that was the most horrible feeling to have to push your dead baby out and there was nothing you could do about it. im so angry. i cant help but think if this was caught sooner what would have happend? could they have put me on bed rest? and save my baby???? the mistake was the first doctors appt i went to at 4 weeks. this place told me to go to this clinic. which i didnt know it was a clinic at the time. till i got there...but i didnt want to wait more weeks to go to another doc and not know what was going on so i stayed there and had them examine me. first he checked and was like oh..you feel like 7-8 weeks. then did the u/s and was like nope your only four weeks cause he only saw a yolk sack. so i went on to find the doctor that was supposedly good that my husbands co-worker recommended. when i finally got to see this doc. i was 12 weeks. he only did a doppler to hear the heart beat because the last doc alread did the u/s he told me i look like im about 14-15 weeks. i told him that was funny cause the last doc told me i looked bigger also but said that i was only 4 weeks by my u/s. he said hhmm..and sent me on my way to come back in four weeks. the day before i was suppose to see the doc the m/c happend...i only can think what if i didnt get up to make dinner? what if i tried not to cough...if i just held out one more day my baby would still be here. when i went to the ER my doc came and they told me baby was fine there was a heart beat but i have three fibroids and asked if the doctor i saw before him said anything. i said no...he said..hmm....well the next day my water broke and so on. warn everyone you know that is preg. that if their doctor says hey your a littler bigger then usual or if anyone says that, get it checked out. no mater what they say make them look deeper. if you feel weird at all....pains at all get it checked out. i think your paranoia is worth your babies life.

Jess i will let you know how my birth experience goes. for now we are not sure whether we are going natural or c-section as yet. i am open to what is best for baby and me. christina, i am terribly sorry for your loss. it must feel like an emotional roller coaster ride. first the good news of pregnancy, then the news of fibroid, then the heartbeat, then miscarriage. stay strong. second, be happy for others who have their babies, not jealous. that's how God will bless you. it is a real gift for us to reach this far and whether we feel pain or not during our pregnancy, who is to say which of us will miscarry. the doctor's don't know. some of us have fibroids the size of a grapefruit and some limes, but the ones with the large fibroids may go on to deliver. there is no answer . once diagnosed with fibroids in pregnancy, women are usually monitored closely. believe it or not, there is not much that the doctors can do besides recommend bed rest and pain medication for us. after that it is all up to nature. they certainly should not operate on the fibroids. what do you think the doctors could have done for you? ...we can all wonder what if, but th truth is that some will carry and some will not. the thing is to never give up! seek the answer from specialists (are they sure the fibroids were the cause of the miscarriage?) , have the fibroids removed, speak to others in your situation, do your own research, get family support....whatever it takes to get your heart's desire. this is your journey, which will be different from some others...but you are not alone, and hopefully we all reach the same road in the end....babyland. i want to read next year this time that you had or are having a nice healthy baby!

im not jealous in a bad way. of course im terribly happy with those who dont have to go through what i went through. it was horrible! i was just being honest in how i feel and im sure those who have lost understand what i am going through. i was just being honest cause i feel like thats the only way i can work through this. yes my doctor said it was for sure because of the fibroid. no chromosomal problems or anything like that...it was my first so my uterus was small and the fibroids grew big because of the hormones and pushed the baby out. she said there was no room for her to grow. makes me very said to think of my poor baby trying to survive under those conditions. im mad at my body for doing that to her. as for having kids later....i dont know i so scared...i want to have my baby back tahts all and i cant replace her...so just makes me feel like i shouldnt even try every again. she was a surprise... i surprise i had to work through but once i got used to the idea i was getting into it. now shes gone and im scared again.....my husband wants kids and i want to give them to him...but im scared....and surgery?? im scared of that too...doctors are just humans and they more then least make mistakes. i don want some doctor making a mistake on me...so surgery is not somthing of a choice right now. the body has the ability to heal itself...so change of diet the right herbs and vitamines should be more then okay. do some yoga....i dont trust doctors..and im sorry to say it but iim a minority and thats more of a reason for me to not trust them...this world is messed up and it happens....

hi again christina. girl, you and me both. i was not trusting of doctors, but i believe now that there are doctors you can trust but you have to look far and wide for them. i was reading that there are perinatologists (sp?) who are specialists in high risk pregnancies, more specialised than the ob-gyns, that you can go to. i believe that these people who dedicate their lives to treating pregnant women with high blood pressure, diabetes, fibroids etc will be more sympathetic to our causes. many of them believe in preserving a woman's fertility and in less invasive procedures. look into some of them and email them and see what their response is. when i first came to this site i read about women who had miscarriages as well as women who had successful deliveries and i was actually prepared for both. i thought about it whether i could keep trying if i lost my baby and i remembered the old lady i knew who had 5 miscarriages before going on to have 4 babies. in the old days there was no fibroid surgery or ultrasounds or anything like that and people kept trying. i draw on the strength of others. be strong. now....i don't know, but i feel, that the location of the fibroids could affect the chances of miscarriage. mine are within the wall of the uterus and huge! but i understand that those that bulge into the uterus space itself tend to be the ones most responsible for miscarriage. so that may determine whether you want to remove or not...remember not all removal has to be by invasive surgery. someone from my prenatal class had hers removed in boston in 2005 by laparospic myomectamy (sp?) and she had a huge intramural fibroid. she just delivered her first baby via c-section 2 weeks ago. to me, this site is a source of hope because i see many who do succeed. by talking like you are doing now you are healing and there will come a time when you will be ready to try again.

I was 13 weeks pregnant and found out i heard 2 subserous fibroids. One very big-12cm the other 4cm. My Doctor then said this was very risky for the baby and put me under alot of pressure and stress. My husband was not supportive then and the only solution i got from my Doc was i terminate the pregnancy and have him remove the fibroid. Little did i know he only wanted money. i was 26 yrs then. I went for D&C of a healthy baby and decided to change Doctors then. I seeked several opinions and all Gynaes objected the idea of removing fibroid that doesn't hurt. I regretted and cried for more than 2 months. I have enough knowledge on fibroid right now. If it's not hurting, DO NOT TOUCH IT. Have your babies first. I still have the fibroids and have really grown. Am 27 right now and and the fibroids have really grown. I feel alot of pressure while urinating and it's not anything easy especially when you have noone to turn to. Am very positive and try to be strong throughout. Have been trying for a baby and when i did U/S yesterday, radiologist saw a gestational sac. It's said to be irregular and contains no fetal pole. Am still positive and am going for another u/s after a week. The radiologist called it a blighted ovum but am hardly 4 weeks so i assume there could be some life in there. Anyway whatever happens, i will take it as Go'd will. Be blessed everybody and i hope you go through this safetly and sound.

WOW! It is amazing how common these things are!! When I first found out that I was pregnant the U/S tech just kept saying "this is just not normal for someone your age, or race even" they say it is more common in hispanics and blacks. The first go around I had 3 10-11 cm, 2 golf ball sizes and about 7-10 dime size...I was full of them! After my c-section delivery, 6 mo. later I had a myomectomy to remove as many as possible! Now, 2 years later, I am pregnant again and there are still that many, just not as big! The larger ones are about quarter size (3 of them). The rest (10) are pretty small, dime size or so. So they are no where near the first time (2 yr. ago) I had my U/S so which is good! They are strange creatures! Even after having the big ones removed, the dr. did tell me that most likely they would come back .....and he was right! So he did urge me at the time of removing them that we should try to conceive sooner than later so that would not get that large again! What is funny is I never even knew that I had them....no family history or even any problems!

quick update: i had my precious baby a week overdue last week wednesday by c-section. they attempted to induce me into labour but due to a failed induction we had to resort to surgery. the surgery was not as bad as i anticipated and in fact the staff at the hospital were fantastic in making me feel comfortable. can you imagine with my 15 cm fibroid my son was born 7lbs 12 oz and a week overdue. my doctor did a bikini line cut and said that i did lose more blood than normal but fortunately did not require a transfusion. the surgery was a success. incredible. it can be done ladies, please do not give up.

Hi . i had a miscarriage 2 months ago and in the utlrasound they the found a 5 cm fibroid . Then she sent me in for a MRI and the report came back stating that i have a 5cm pedunculated subserous fibroid. My doctor told me i should laproscopically remove it . I am not for surgeries at all. They scare the heck out of me. So i went in for a 2nd opinion. She told to forget aobut surgery because the yare risky and try gtting pregnant. That since i had no pain and becuase of the location( outside of uterus) , usually it would be okay. That with a surgery there are risks . So then i went in for a 3rd opinion and she does actual myomectomies herself, she said that i should remove the fibroid because of the size before getting pregnant . She told me with a pedunculated fibroid they have a good chance of getting large. Right now, i'm not sure what to do. Has anyone had this type of fibroid ? If ,so please tell me your stories thanks

sarah, I was pregnant with about 7 fibroids, the largest at the time was 7cm, 5cm and 4, the others were much smaller. I didn't even realize that I had fibroids until they did my ultrasound! I never had problems either with them, I was high risk and watched very closely by my doctor we were concerned with how the baby could grow because there is only so much room in there! The largest one got to be 15cm....it literally poked out at the top of my stomach you could see it really bad when I layed down, it looked like a head, it was pretty gross actually! But anyways, he did recommend that if I was going to get pregnant again that I should get them removed so I had them removed 6 months after my baby girl was born, he did tell me about the risk but after doing ALOT of reading, I realized that either way their were going to be risk, my daughter was a blessing, and I knew that if I kept the fibroids there could be a chance that I couldn't have anymore, the same chance that if I had the myomectomy, so I opted to have the surgery to have them removed. Unfortuantely they have come back! But, are not any where near the size, so he is not to worried this time! I am 10 weeks pregnant now and think that this pregnancy will be alot smoother! Hopefully! I hope this helps! But also do some research on your own, I found that either way there was a risk, so I went ahead with it! Good luck to you!

Thanks sdillon , i read that fibroids shrink after breastfeeding. Your 15cm friboid should have shrunk? Where were your fibroids located? One doctor told me that they don't grow usually and they don;t cause problems, If they are on the outside of the uterus . And since i only have one , that i should go ahead and try to get pregnant. but 2 other doctors told me that i should have the surgery. That if they get too big , they would cause pain and discomfort. and maybe even preterm labor.

Yes they did shrink alot within that 6 months that I was debating on whether to get them removed or not. But, I knew that they would just get that big again when I got pregnant. The nurses and dr. were very shocked that I had no idea of them before and that my old gyno could not feel them....you would have thought that I would have had a pretty big tummy with all of them before I was pregnant, but not at all I was in excellent shape, and a FLAT tummy, boy are those days over...lol anyways, all of you info is correct, I just put faith in my dr. because I really trusted him and he is a very well known, great reputation dr. here in my town, so I let him take care of me. And he did, I was extremely worried if I was going to be able to have another because we were trying for about 6 mons and it just wasn't happening, then a vacation did it for us! So, I think that if the myomectomy is done correctly, then you would have no problems getting pregnant! As for not getting it removed and going into labor early that is exactly why I was high risk, my dr. was just glad to get me past 25 weeks, then we just waited and waited, and I made it to 36 weeks which is when I had a c-section.
It is defintely a lot to think about!

Sdillion thanks for the input . Congrats on your baby and new pregnancy :).
Were your fibroids inside the uterus or like mine predunculated subserous( on a stalk outside the uterus)? Ahh, that's another surgery i really am afraid of
" a c-section." How long did it take u to recover from a c-section? Did u have the bikini cut or on the stomach?

I had a c-section on February 7th. I was given a spinal and was awake during the operation. M son was born at 7:36 pm. You are hooked up to a drip and can administer your own morphine, but it is controlled so that you cannot overdose yourself. By 4 am the following morning i asked for stronger pain medication which i received. I have to take that for the following 2 weeks. Throughout the night you are receiving IV drips and your blood pressure is being taken at hourly intervals. The next morning i was sponge bathed and eventually the drips and cathether were removed. At 2 pm that day the nurse assisted me in getting out of bed and walking. The following day I was told to take a shower and take off the bandage. The midwife examined me and it was fine, there was no bleeding. The day i left the hospital, 5 days after my son was born, my staples were removed (did not pain). While in the hospital, the most painful thing was the limited mobility for the days following the surgery as your body heals. It was rough for me and i broke down and cried a few times, but it was all worth it in the end. I have no regrets as i have a beautiful baby in the end. I think you stop thinking about yourself and just think about what is best for this other human being and you will lose the fear of the surgery (somewhat). Oh, I got a bikini line cut but your cut will depend on where your fibroid is located. I am almost 2 weeks since my operation and i am pretty much back to my old self. I got the go ahead yesterday to drive again but have been warned to only do light work if necessary.

Hi,
I'm so scared! This is my first baby and I'm 35 years old. I several fibroids. The 2 main ones are 11cm and 6cm. I'm having a lot of pain. I've been taking extra strength Tylenol but now it isn't working. I'm 12 weeks and I'm so scared of having a miscarriage. Did anyone have the constant pain that wouldn't go away.

CONGRATS SONJA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarah-sorry it took so long to respond! Well, I had/have some in the uterus and some that were outside....so a little of both! On my last post I put that my largest was 15, that was wrong it was 25cm...abosolutely huge! That was the one that was outside and you could see it when I layed down on my back it would stick up out of my stomach....anyways as for my c-section I did really well, I wanted to go home after being in the hospital for 2 days, so I did and I recovered pretty quickly, again I was in shape then so my dr. did say that I should recover well! As for my NEXT c-section, I am dreading this one because I am not in the shape that I was, so we'll just have to see how this one goes! What about your decision have you made one yet?