Shortness of breath is this a symptom of Fibroids as this is worse since my diagnosis?

Yes, I have shortness of breath & left sided pain too. One uterine wall fibroid 12x13cm melon sized.

 

sorry right sided pain! lol! flipping fibroids!

Oh wow when I read the size that fibroids grow its so obvious to me we would have symptoms and so comforting to read its not my imagination.

So true and the weight I have gained has happened in the three months and my stomach carries the most weight.

I65195 your fibroid is classed as a very large one, this will ha significant affect on your life especially I would have thought during your monthly cycle & bound to result in increased blood loss. I have a 13cm fibroid which I have seen a number of medics about re different treatments but seemingly no matter where I go because I'm 47 they say get a hysterectomy, they say you've no more use for your womb & it's safer than a myomectomy. (Re blood loss, complications of surgery re regrowth of fibroids etc) I too have been tested for a lot of things sharp chest pain like you describe & though even misdiagnosed by 2 cardiologist (one which I paid for) the first twice it appears I have a 1 in a million chance pericardial cyst, that may go some way to explaining my chest pain, or costachrondritis is this other option they've given me, but I have a large fibroid so who knows. I also feel dizzy & light headed, I must be anaemic with the blood loss, however even liquid iron upsets my digestive system & whilst I would struggle with an alkaline diet full time, I make a smoothie in the morning to try to naturally keep my iron levels up & even for me, it actually tastes ok. I use a couple of handfulls of spinach for the iron, Lemon juice from a whole small lemon, 1 avocado, 1 banana & a cup for coconut milk, blend it with ice (trying to keep it organic where I can) & though it's green it's really nice. If you make a big batch pop it in the fridge for later. Filling healthy & full of iron, which may or may not help your shortness of breath or dizziness but both of those are symptoms of anaemia, which many of us fibroid sufferers are, or if not have low iron/iron stores. It may help. I find clean eating (green) to hard, but I try my best, because it's gotta help in someway. I have to see a consultant about autoimmune disease next week, fingers crossed it won't be but I seem to tick many of the boxes with symptoms. You feel like you are going round in circles, then all of a sudden a scan or a test shows up something incidental & boom, what you've been feeling for years make more sense. I think it would be common sense to assume that with fibroids, our hormone levels are off par & that the alien mass will inevitably cause nerve impingement, muscle issues, inflammation - for example if a lady can get S1 joint issues when she's pregnant how about carrying something the size of a baby for 10 years! Has to have an impact. I truly don't think "professionals" can know exactly what a fibroid does do to some people, as we would expect some symptoms from our massive ones, but I have also heard from medics that ladies with grape sized fibroids can get horrible symptoms too. After being told I'd be unlikely to have kids with it &(hubby low sperm count too) I did fall pregnant first time, so they aren't always right as I'm living proof of with my cardio referrals, I went with shortness of breath. Only thing I would say to both ladies on this thread is shortness of breath is a symptom with other things, so it would maybe be a good idea to have a heart check (if you have not already had one) though as I am living proof of even cardiologists get it wrong (in my case both nhs & private) One important thing I will say however, trying to reduce the size of these things on various drugs or being on the pill a long time, (I wasn't on the pill a long time) but did take Esmya & Zoladex over a 3 year period to try to reduce my fibroid which nothing did, but did end up with an enlarged liver cyst, which the specialist did say could be hormone related or due to the fibroid drugs, re oestrogen level. It seems to me that I could have made a lot of things worse by trying the drug treatment route. Or by having a fibroid & not getting it out, can it cause other things? I don't know the answer to that but I do think that fibroids & the symptoms they cause aren't dealt with effectively enough for so many sufferers. I feel I lived with it while it grew & grew because the options weren't explained to me, if they had have done, I would have chosen a less invasive route when it was smaller (mind you some of these things can grow fast too) But I too had the adrenaline rushes, heart races, palpitations, so reading your post too< it makes me think that the effect of fibroids could be responsible for more than we think. I too never feel 100% either, I have one single posterior wall fibroid, intramural (in the womb wall) I also feel I bruise easily, am sore to the touch, bloat (have now also cut out most carbs) that my fibroid goes hard & soft, feels like it drags & pulls down sometimes but not others, rush for a wee all the time, have crime scene periods. Have numbness in hands, (especially on waking) am more clumsy, feel stuttered breathing on sleeping, exerted easily on climbing stairs, have a sensation of moving when I stop (mostly when on period) pain in legs & tummy, stiff & sore joints, back pain, hip pain, S1 joint pain (can understand that though as every time I bend over it's like I'm bending over with the pressure of a baby inside me & have had for well over 10 years, so if ladies can end up with S1 disfunction after pregnancy then hey ho! There should be more specialist help for us, more clinics & tests, forums, they can actually find out why these things blight womens lives so much. It's not "just" a fibroid, many people have them, it can be a really awful thing to live with & there should be routine scanning early on so ladies aren't left feeling I want kids but can't have one as I've got to have a fibroid procedure first or worse have to have a hysterectomy, when they could be dealt with more conservatively if found & explained earlier. I don't know about you guys, but if I'd been told there was a laser procedure I could have to reduce/kill it off but that I'd have to pay towards it, I'd have done it 10/15 years ago, but I wasn't told that. As often the fibroids causing the real problems have grown to a size where the options are more limited but the patient has been suffering for years.

I feel for you and reading about what you are experiencing and its such a dream holiday I hope you get to go to Australia. I totally identify with what you have said and I work two jobs and the dizzy thing is often for me. Like you I feel something is so not right and I internet search and frightened myself with ovarian cancer descriptions but I know Fibroids are very similar in symptoms so have taken a deep breath and like you said keep asking questions with the GP and get things checked out.

When you say the breathing is odd like you may stop breathing that's exactly what I get. I thought a rest and a little break would somehow take away symptoms but it made me realize I am poorly and its not exhaustion or tiredness this is my body saying something is up.

Thank you for your kind words... Keep asking and pushing until you feel more like yourself again - I plan to do the same.

Wow it's so nice to chat to someone who gets it, my friends absolutely do not! Have you been told why a fibroid can make you breathless? And how on earth do I convince myself it's that when my go is telling me that it's not?

Just lots of online research like you I am finding different responses. With my symptoms my GP sent me on tests for other things and my blood tests are clear. My hormones are even balanced fine and thyroid and not going through the change. I never had any of these things before only since I had the pregnancy symptoms. I know when I say about my breath my GP will test me for other things. Frustating but will do it then go back. Friends outside of mewith fibroids without symptoms say it does thing to your head knowing it’s inside you. I know however it’s not in my head I’ve felt poorly with it and I’m simply not the same person I was. I totally identify with what you are saying. 

Thanks heather34376

I agree it's a shame, maybe it's my own fault for waiting til I was older to have children, it's have been found then but now I face not being able to have them if it all goes wrong. I feel even the specialists you see aren't really sure,I've had very confusing and sometimes conflicting information fr them and it's not to you get out of the appointment and mull it over that you think, hang on that's new info! I have been told I now need to decide between the op or not, do I want children before or chance it and try after. They seem to constantly tell me that the symptoms I'm having aren't from my fibroid but many people on here seem to describe similar things to me; really helps to know I'm not alone in this boat, we're all in the same! X

How are you now Gem & what are you doing with your fibroid? x

I agree Sheila we a have to fight it and not let it beat us. I am thinking of UFE moving forward depending on whats said on my next GP visit. Fantastic you have had this and on the road to feeling better. The shortness of breath is a clear symptom with Fibroids for sure.