What Causes Fibroids to Grow Back After Surgery?

Hey ladies,

It’s been a minute and most of you have been sending in this question a lot.

Thought I would share with you my experience with fibroids growing back post-surgery.

Before we delve deeper into this subject lets understand that:

FIBROIDS DON’T GROW BACK POST SURGERY; YOU ACTUALLY DEVELOP NEW FIBROIDS!

Tabby don’t the two mean the same thing? You must be thinking...

Not at all.

By growing back, I mean that the ones that were removed don’t grow back to the same location in your uterus and to the size.

EITHER THEY WERE NOT ALL REMOVED DURING SURGERY OR NEW ONES GREW.

New fibroids do develop after fibroids though… after how long?

That really depends on your hormonal levels and whether estrogen is well balanced within your body!

Remember I wrote sometime back on, ’How to heal your fibroids naturally’ and on another article, ‘How to balance out your hormones?’

if you are not preview of these 2 articles, kindly make time to read them. They will answer most of your questions on why new fibroids grow.

Now let me share my personal experience on this subject based on 2 surgeries I have had to treat my then multiple symptomatic fibroids.

Please remember if you have fibroids it isn’t a direct verdict for you to get surgery or treatment.

What determines this is the type of fibroids you have.

Whether they are Symptomatic or Asymptomatic. If your fibroids aren’t posing any challenges/symptoms such as heavy bleeding that brings about anemia, or heavy clots etc. then they are Asymptomatic and don’t need treatment.

Observation from your doctor, to ensure they don’t impose any difficulties in the future would be enough to manage them for now.

I have had 2 surgeries to treat my then multiple symptomatic fibroids.

One in 2017 known as a Laparoscopic Surgery and one in 2019 known as an Open Myomectomy.

I shared in detail how both surgeries were done and the recovery process here on the blog.

Please read both articles if you are not familiar with my story.

For this blog post I am only sharing my experience with recurring or new fibroids.

Laparoscopic Surgery

This surgery was meant to treat my then multiple symptomatic fibroids.

6 months post-surgery all the symptoms I had pre- surgery all came back.

I had this surgery in September 2017 and by February 2018 they were all back.

I remember being mad at my body and my doctor but the truth is that with this type of surgery not all the fibroids could be extracted as some were not visible enough during the surgery as with this type of surgery microscopes are used to spot the fibroids. At the time smaller ones had started growing which were not in preview during the surgery.

A limitation of this type of surgery I MUST say!

So yes, that probably wasn’t the right surgery to treat the type of fibroids I had.

In my opinion, Laparoscopic surgeries work better for women who have fewer fibroids and not multiple fibroids like I did.

Why, it's easier to spot them and treat them instantly.

Open Myomectomy

As I had mentioned, the smaller fibroids could not be spotted during the Laparoscopic surgery.

After 2 miscarriages following that surgery, I knew I had to find a plan B, as I had also become anemic. I found another option; my mind was made up. Though I was about to put my body under the most brutal surgery ever.

An open myomectomy is equivalent to a Caesarean Section (CS) a birth option.

And it involved cutting through layers of my skin to reach my uterus so that the doctors can be able to extract all the fibroids I then had!

I had it done August 2019.

These are the fibroids that were removed from my uterus in August 2019

The recovery was even much tougher but the results were stunning I must say!

Now, an year later, no new fibroids have been spotted, my anemia is gone and am back to my normal self.

I would recommend having this type of surgery to treat multiple fibroids.

If you are trying to decide on a treatment option for your fibroids this should be helpful.

I hope I sufficiently answered the questions on new fibroids developing after surgery.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Also feel free to email me your questions following this article to tabitha.ndichu@gmail.com and I will be glad to respond to them.

Thanks for stopping by!

Cheers,

Tabby