Uterine Fibroids Cause Fatigue By Causing Anemia: You Can Fix This

Many women with uterine fibroids complain of fatigue. Uterine fibroids cannot affect your hormones, and they might be causing pain and pressure symptoms that can wear you down, but it's really the anemia that causes fatigue. Anemia is a common consequence of uterine fibroids and irregular bleeding because of these fibroids.

Regardless of symptoms people with anemia should be treated. So those with heavy periods should have a blood count to see if they are anemic or not.

In many women correction of the bleeding, or treatment of uterine fibroids corrects the associated anemia. Particularly if the anemia is modest and your diet is rich in foods that contain iron.

In some women, their iron stores become so depleted that the anemia cannot correct easily. If you have various GI conditions or 'stomach issues' it may make oral iron tough to tolerate, and other treatments are possible.

In women facing uterine fibroid surgery the correction of anemia should ideally be done before the surgery if having a hysterectomy or myomectomy.

In women who have to have surgery correction of anemia by taking oral iron can work to bring the blood counts to normal. Blood testing of the response to your iron treatment is possible to do.

Diet that is deficient in B vitamins or other nutrients may make correction of anemia harder.

Intravenous iron is a rapid and successful way to raise the blood count for women facing surgery. It may take three infusions per week for three weeks. In research studies the count was raised by oral iron less than one hemoglobin point during three weeks, but by 3 points if iv iron infusions were given.

Epoetin can be given weekly and it increases the hemoglobin concentration about double what you can accomplish with oral iron given over the three week period of time in research settings

Correction of anemia before surgery, and decreased blood loss during surgery with minimally invasive techniques helps you get back to work and recover faster from uterine fibroid surgery at Women’s Health Practice.

Passing Your Uterine Lining, Menstrual Period Norms

Decidual Cast Periods can be fairly easy, passing some tissue at a time, or off can come the whole lining in one piece called a decidual cast. Generally the lining of the uterus is only 6-8 mm thick at the time of the menstrual period, and it is shed gradually, a few cells at a time. The decidual cast is when the entire lining passes spontaneously. It's not uncommon, but it usually both uncomfortable, and alarming to some. But us women are designed to have some sort of periods Or Not? We have to pass tissue each month. Or Not? Are they good for us? Or Not? Do we want them? Or Not? Is this something that is individual? Or Not? It's a complex topic that I will be discussing a lot over my time in this blog. So lets start with basics: How much do we bleed and what are we loosing, and just what was this that the patient passed? And another basic: track your periods, and the Women's Health Practice site http://www.womenshealthpractice.com/media/pdf/menstrual_chart.pdf you

Endocervial polyps

2 cm Endometrial Polyp After Removal Polyps in the cervix are almost never cancerous, but can bleed or get infected and should be removed. The are not directly related to an endometrial or uterine polyp (which is a precancerous condition), but your gyno may want to make sure these two conditions do not co-exist.

Irregular Periods can Be the Sign of Other Medical Conditions

Heavy menstrual Bleeding Menstrual Period Norms The menstrual period's normal physiologic function to shed the lining and then prepare the lining for a pregnancy. Thus a sample of the lining under the microsope looks like it has glands within tissue. It’s hard to know if this is a heavy period, or one that is really so heavy that you need treatment without really checking completely with your gyno! Experts have used a number of definitions to determine if the period you are having is too heavy. Your perception is important. The actual amount of blood lost is important, but that can be determined by collecting each pad and weighing them before and after blood collection. So gynos have struggled with how to determine the formal definition of heavy bleeding. A basic check up, and a basic blood count, is not going to really make your version of heavy periods fit the typical “FDA” approved definition because that is defined by the exact amount of blood lost, which is los

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