What causes uterine fibroids to grow after menopause?

Some women experience enlarged uterine fibroids after menopause, which is quite harmful to women's health. If they do not pay attention to good conditioning and treatment, it may even cause more serious situations. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, among which it is closely related to female hormone secretion disorders and menopause. In addition to paying attention to good conditioning, you should go to the hospital for examination in time.

Experts emphasize that the pathogenesis of uterine fibroids is still unclear at this moment, mainly because I think it is related to excessively high estrogen levels. So, will uterine fibroids continue to grow after menopause?

Experts explain that it is not necessarily the case, some uterine fibroids will shrink naturally, some uterine fibroids have no change and have no adverse effects, and some women can grow uterine fibroids. When women have benign uterine fibroids, they usually grow very slowly, especially in women approaching menopause, when uterine fibroids barely grow. Sometimes, uterine fibroids do not change significantly for a decade or more.

However, after menopause, estrogen levels are due to decline, and hormone levels may cause a series of menopausal symptoms. To alleviate this phenomenon, if estrogen is supplemented, it will have a certain effect on uterine fibroids. If this happens to postmenopausal women and the fibroids continue to grow, they should go to a professional hospital for examination to see if the uterine fibroids have become malignant. Therefore, women with fibroids should not only have regular checkups before menopause, but also have regular checkups even after menopause.

Some people believe that the ovarian function declines after menopause and gradually shrinks in women with uterine fibroids. Such clinical cases often exist. However, after observing many cases, it is found that the shrinkage of uterine fibroids in most women after menopause is not particularly obvious. In some women, the fibroids do not change until menopause, or even continue to grow until the fibroids become malignant.

After menopause, estrogen secretion decreases, uterine fibroids disappear, and estrogen stimulation will gradually decrease. However, women with uterine fibroids often reach menopause late, and if the fibroids or other symptoms continue to increase, surgical treatment should be considered even during the observation period.