Fibroids do not affect your fertility. Many women have fibroids & sometimes only discover them during pregnancy, and still go on to have healthy babies. Fibroids are very common in women , between 50-80% of women will develop them by the age of 50. Some people will have tiny pea size fibroids, some can have melon size fibroids. 50% of women will have no symptoms from fibroids , irrespective of their size.
There has been research on fibroids & fertility, which confirms that women with fibroids are as fertile as the average woman of their age in society. After myomectomy , the chances of pregnancy for a woman under 35 is up to 75% . Women's ability to maintain a pregnancy (if they had , had problems before) increased after Myomectomy.
CLICK HERE to Read the Research Article on Myomectomy in the Human Reproductive Journal Myomectomy: a study to examine reproductive performance before and after surgery
Not all fibroids require a removal in order for a woman to maintain a pregnancy. This is why some Doctors advise trying to get pregnant first & only if that is unsuccessful then they could consider surgery.
Occasionally if a fibroid is in a position which would make pregnancy uncomfortable or difficult, then the Dr may recommend removing it by Myomectomy (Fibroid Removal leaving the womb intact) especially if they are large fibroids, or Uterine Embolisation (fibroid shrinking by minimal surgery blocking the fibroids blood supply) or by 1 of the other minimal surgeries now widely available.
The chances of successful pregnancy post-myomectomy are good, they are slighty higher than with Fibroid Embolisation but that may change with more research.
However, age is more relevant to fertility than presence of fibroids. As naturally a woman will reach menopause by on average age 50 but chances of conception naturally reduce
But the main message is many women of childbearing age have babies with or without their fibroids being removed.
