What are the symptoms of uterine fibroids?

Women should pay attention to reproductive health and hygiene in their daily lives and prevent various gynecological diseases. Uterine fibroids are a common tumor that can easily cause women to experience menstrual changes or symptoms such as abdominal pain and lumps. Diagnosis and treatment should be based on these symptoms.

1. Menstrual changes: Most patients have menstrual changes, with prolonged menstrual period and not necessarily a significant increase in menstrual volume; the number of days and volume of menstruation are normal, but the cycle is shortened; or the menstrual volume may be heavy, the days are long, and the cycle is shortened; those with fibroids that mainly grow under the serosal membrane may not have menstrual changes. In addition, fibroids increase the size of the uterus and affect the contraction of uterine muscle fibers, which is the reason for the increase in menstrual volume.

2. Abdominal mass: The abdomen is swollen, and a mass can be felt in the lower abdomen, accompanied by a feeling of falling. Increased leucorrhea: Increased leucorrhea, sometimes with a large amount of purulent and bloody discharge and necrotic tissue discharge with a foul odor.

3. Pain: Generally, patients do not have abdominal pain, but acute abdominal colic may occur when the subserosal pedunculated myoma is twisted. In addition, when the tumor undergoes degeneration, it may cause dull pain or more severe abdominal pain with red degeneration. Although large uterine fibroids grow in the large pelvic cavity, they can still compress the surrounding organs and tissues to cause dull pain and a feeling of falling. Intramural fibroids can cause or aggravate dysmenorrhea. When submucosal uterine fibroids prolapse into the vagina through the cervical canal, severe lower abdominal pain may occur.

4. Infertility: Fibroids compress the fallopian tubes, causing them to twist, or deform the uterine cavity, thus preventing the fertilized egg from implanting and leading to infertility.

5. Hypoglycemia: Hypoglycemia associated with uterine fibroids is also rare. The main symptoms are low fasting blood sugar, loss of consciousness and even shock. The symptoms can completely disappear after glucose injection. The symptoms of hypoglycemia disappeared completely after tumor resection. Secondary anemia: If the patient has excessive menstruation for a long time, it may lead to secondary anemia, with symptoms such as general fatigue, pale complexion, shortness of breath, and palpitations.