They told my mom to have a hysterectomy for years because of her fibroids, she refused. There was one that was very large, and some other small ones, and she had some heavy bleeding in her late 40’s, but nothing extremely scary, just annoying. Anyway, she finally went through menopause and they shrank up to nothing. She is so glad she did not listen to any of her doctors that suggested the surgery.
I have multiple fibroids, the biggest one is the size of a golf ball, they don’t give me any trouble. I don’t plan to do anything about them. I am 45 I have had them at least since I was in my late 20’s. Well, I might have more now. Not sure.
I had a friend who had a fibroid that was in a bad place, she didn’t know she had it, and several years ago she found out because she was in excrutiating pain and they did emergency surgery. I am pretty sure they only removed the fibroid. She recovered with no problems.
I saw a procedure on TV once where they cut off the blood supply to the fibroid and it shrinks, that seemed effective and is supposed to leave the uteris intact if done right. Not sure what it is called.
Are you having bad symptoms?