Ahhh...fibroids...my dear friends!!!

I've had them for a few years.

About 5 years ago my fibroids were causing ++heavy periods, anaemia, etc. so I had to have them embolised. This is basically when the blood supply to them is blocked (by injecting little microspheres), which then causes them to degenerate and die.

I was on heaps of pethidine whilst they were dying as it was supposedly very painful (I didn't really feel it as the pethidine was working wonders!!!) Basically they just shrivelled up to nothing and didn't cause me anymore problems. I can't even see these ones in my current ultrasounds so I guess they shrivel down to basically nothing...and perhaps leave a tiny bit of scar tissue...my biggest one was 5cm.

You've done amazingly well to cope with the degeneration without painkillers...WELL DONE!!! I imagine, that yours will be much like mine when they degenerated...just shrivelled up to nothing.

I've now got a couple more...thankfully they haven't impacted upon the pregnancy as yet...so I can't really answer your questions. I was told that they probably won't impact.

Apparently at least 30% of woman have fibroids, many of which develop during pregnancy due to the hormone influx. From what I understand, most of them don't cause problems!

I remember seeing a thread on fibroids and delivery just within the last few weeks...maybe do a search on the BB site and see what you can find...

Anyway...wishing you all the very best!