Fibroids Symptoms

Most fibroids, even large ones, produce no symptoms. These masses are often found during your regular pelvic examination.

When you do experience symptoms, the most common are these:

• Irregular vaginal bleeding or an increase in menstrual bleeding, known as menorrhagia, sometimes with blood clots

• Pressure on the bladder, which may cause you to urinate often and feel a sense of urgency to urinate and, rarely, the inability to urinate

• Pressure on the rectum, resulting in constipation

• Pelvic pressure, "feeling full" in the lower abdomen, lower abdominal pain

• Increase in size around your waist and change in abdominal contour (You may need to increase your clothing size but not because of a significant weight gain.)

• Infertility, which is defined as an inability to become pregnant after 1 year of attempting to get pregnant

• A pelvic mass discovered by your health care provider during a physical examination

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