26.Uterine Fibroids and Infertility – Infertility Niche Business

It has been a question on more than one woman's mind: Are my uterine fibroids causing my infertility?

The questions lingers. And quite frankly without a detailed investigation of your type, size and location of fibroids, it's a question that is near impossible to answer.

Uterine fibroids are common in women -- very common it seems. And many women conceive, have healthy pregnancies and give birth to spectacularly healthy children without the least bit of thought to their fibroids.

And then . . .
It's good to become clear before we go any farther exactly what a fibroid is. It's a tumor -- yes, a benign tumor. This means it's non-cancerous. And it's found in various areas within your uterus. If you have one, you usually have more than one. They occur mostly in women of child bearing age. And, not surprisingly, their growth appears to be hormonally driven.

Many women actually have fibroids but experience absolutely no symptoms. Others have symptoms such as irregular bleeding, the need to urinate frequently, constipation pelvic pressure and pain.

Why are some women plagued with these symptoms and others don't even know they're carrying these fibroids around with them? The difference lies in not only the size of the fibroids, but also the location of them.

For most individuals, the fibroids they have are small - very small. For others, their fibroids developed in areas which don't disrupt the reproductive process.
Medical experts explain there are three general locations fibroids can be found within your uterus. The first is on the outside surface of the reproductive organ.

If you have fibroids here, they would be classified, in medical jargon as subserosal. The second possible location is within the muscular wall of the uterus and they're called intramural fibroids.

The third classification is fibroids called submucous. These are the fibroids that are bulging into the uterine cavity itself.

Medical experts now believe that the only kind of fibroids that could interfere with pregnancy is the submucous variety. Now, having said that, it is possible that the other two could cause some infertility if they were large enough and if they were very numerous.

Curiously, very little research has been performed in this area so much of this knowledge is based on observation and quite frankly speculation on the part of the medical community.