What cause Fibroid Adenomas?
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Adenoma is a benign epithelial tumor arising in epithelium of mucosa (stomach, small intestine and bowel), glands (endocrine and exocrine) and ducts. The most common subtype, prolactinoma, is seen more often in women, and is frequently diagnosed during pregnancy as the hormone progesterone increases its growth. Medical therapy (bromocriptine) generally suppresses prolactinomas; progesterone antagonist therapy has not proven to be overly successful.
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Uterine fibroids are benign tumors of muscle and connective tissue that develop within, or are attached to, the uterine wall.  \n\nSymptoms:\nSensation of fullness or pressure in lower abdomen \nPelvic cramping or pain with periods \nAbdominal fullness, gas \nIncrease in urinary frequency \nHeavy menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia), sometimes with the passage of blood clots \nSudden, severe pain due to a pedunculated fibroid \n\nNote: There are often no symptoms.\n\nMethods of treatment depend on the severity of symptoms, the patient's age, her pregnancy status, her possible desire for future pregnancies, her general health, and characteristics of the fibroids. Treatment may consist of simply monitoring the rate of growth of the fibroids with periodic pelvic exams or ultrasound.\n\nNonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications like ibuprofen or naprosyn may be recommended for lower abdominal cramping or pain with menses. Iron supplementation will help to prevent anemia in women with heavy periods. These methods are usually sufficient in premenopausal women.\n\nHormonal treatment, involving drugs such as injectable Depo Leuprolide, causes fibroids to shrink, but can also cause significant side effects. This method is sometimes used for short treatment periods before surgical procedures or when menopause is imminent.\n\nThe hormones produce an environment in the body that is very similar to that of menopause, with associated side effects like hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and loss of bone density.\n\nThe treatment lasts several months and during this time the reduction in estrogen concentration allows the fibroids to shrink. Fibroids will begin to enlarge as soon as treatment stops.\n\nHysteroscopic resection of fibroids (an outpatient surgical procedure) may be appropriate for women with fibroids growing within the uterine cavity. In this procedure, a small camera and instruments are inserted through the cervix into the uterus to remove the fibroid tumors.\n\nUterine artery embolization is a new procedure aimed at preventing the need for major surgery. Small catheters are placed through veins in the pelvis and advanced to the arteries that supply the uterus with blood.\n\nMaterials are then injected to block these arteries permanently. The decreased blood supply to the uterus may prevent further growth of the fibroids and may cause them to shrink. The long-term effects of this procedure are still unknown, and the safety of pregnancy after this procedure is questionable.\n\nA myomectomy, which is a surgical procedure to remove just the fibroids, is frequently the chosen treatment for premenopausal women who want to bear more children, because it usually can preserve fertility.\n\nAnother advantage of a myomectomy is that it controls pain or excessive bleeding that some women with uterine fibroids experience. However, a myomectomy often cannot remove very small fibroids that may grow and cause symptoms in the future.\n\nA total hysterectomy, which involves removal of the uterus, is a curative option that is often chosen by older women.
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I have had both and had no symptoms with either.  I believe a cyst can go away on its own and fibroids must be surgically removed.  I currently have 4 small fibroids, I had no clue.  When I was younger I used to get really bad stomach pains, the doctor said I had an ovarian cyst and the only way to get rid of it would be to go on the pill or get pregnant.  Well, at 16 I wasn't really prepared to do either.  I eventually quit having the pains luckily.   These are just my personal experiences.  My mom had a fibroid tumor removed at age 30 by hysterectomy.  Luckily it was noncancerous.  You can do some more medically correct research here...
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Has your doctor sent you to a specialist?  Doctors are not omniscient and should be able to recognize when they've reached their limits.\n\nI will also point out that there are a couple more options available to you:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroids#Treatment\n\nI had a similar (though not as bad) problem with fibroids. I had the uterine arterial embolization mentioned in the above article, and it worked outstandingly.  Since the UAE, I have only enough period to let me know the plumbing is still working. \n\nI did not have the HIFU treatment, but it sounds completely non-surgical and thus you wouldn't have to deal with the problems that other techniques have.\n\nWhen I was researching the UAE, I noticed from some support groups this trend:  women with a lot of small fibroids did better with UAE, while women with one large fibroid did better with myomectomy.  And when I say large, I mean a fibroid that is being talked about in terms of months, e.g. one fibroid that makes a person look three or five months pregnant.  The advantage that UAE has for the first group is that the UAE killed all of the fibroids no matter what size, whereas the myomectomy only addresses fibroids that can be seen.  \n\nHowever, at this point if I needed to be treated again, I would go with the HIFU first to see how that helped and then go with the UAE if HIFU didn't work.  I personally would not even let the Lupron near me - that essentially creates an artificial menopause.  \n\nNote that I'm not even mentioning hysterectomy.  I might have considered that if everything else failed, but it would have had to be a life-threatening, no other treatment had worked at all situation.\n\n\nIn the meantime, here's a couple more things I found:\n\nCholesterol is a precursor chemical to estrogen, and it is the estrogen that is causing the problems.  I recommend highly that you go on a cholesterol reducing lifestyle: \n1.  Minimize animal fats - especially sausages, bacon and (sadly) cheese.  I would not eliminate beef as it is high in dietary iron, which is absorbed more easily than supplements.\n2.  Eliminate ANY deep-fried foods.  Even foods fried in unsaturated fat has excess amounts of trans-fatty acids that cause LDL cholesterol.\n3.  Take niacin in a time-released multi-B formula.\n4.  Exercise as much as you can.\n5.  Iron - vitamin C increases absorption and calcium reduces absorption.  Add lemon or lime juice to steak and any other iron source you consume; if you are eating steak, don't have cheese or milk products, even if they are fat free.  Also, don't take a calcium supplement when you take your iron supplement, and do take a vitamin C supplement.\n\nGood luck, and I hope you get the treatment you need.
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African American women are more prone to fibroid tumors.  Please read the link.\n\nhttp://www.blackwomenshealthproject.org/aafibroids.htm
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The "cause" is sexual attraction and hormonal secretions.  The RESULT can be pregnancy or total satisfaction.
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Adenomyosis\n\nAdenomyosis is a medical condition characterized by the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue (the inner lining of the uterus) within the myometrium (the thick, muscular layer of the uterus).\n\nThe condition is typically found in women in the ages between 35 and 50. Patients with adenomyosis can have painful and/or profuse menses (dysmenorrhea & menorrhagia, respectively).\n\nAdenomyosis may involve the uterus focally, creating an adenomyoma, or diffusely. With diffuse involvement, the uterus becomes bulky and heavier.\n\nCauses\nThe cause of adenomyosis is unknown, although it has been associated with any sort of uterine trauma that may break the barrier between the endometrium and myometrium, such as Cesarean sections, tubal ligation, pregnancy termination, and any pregnancy.\n\nSome say that the reason adenomyosis is common in women between the ages of 35 and 50 is because it is between these ages that women have an excess of estrogen. Near the age of 35, women typically cease to create as much natural progesterone, which counters the effects of estrogen. After the age of 50, due to menopause, women do not create as much estrogen.\nDiagnosis\nThe uterus may be imaged using ultrasound (US) or magnetic resonance imaging (MR). Transvaginal ultrasound is the most cost effective and most available. Either modality will show an enlarged uterus. On ultrasound, the uterus will have a heterogeneous texture, without the focal well-defined masses that characterize uterine fibroids.\n\nMR provides better diagnostic capability due to the increased spatial and contrast resolution, and to not being limited by the presence of bowel gas or calcified uterine fibroids (as is ultrasound). In particular, MR is better able to differentiate adenomyosis from multiple small uterine fibroids the uterus will have a thickened junctional zone with diminished signal on both T1 and T2 weighted sequences due to succeptibility effects of iron deposition due to chronic microhemorrhage. A thickness of the junctional zone greater than 10 or 12 mm (depending on who you read) is diagnostic of adenomyosis (<8 mm is normal). Interspersed within the thickened, hypointense signal of the junctional zone, one will often see foci of hyperintensity (brightness) on the T2 weighted scans representing small cystically dilatated glands or more acute sites of microhemorrhage.\n\nMR can be used to classify adenomyosis based on the depth of penetration of the ectopic endometrium into the myometrium.\n\nTreatment\nTreatment options range from use of NSAIDS & hormonal suppression for symptomatic relief, to endometrial ablation or hysterectomy for a more or less permanent cure.\n\nThose that believe an excess of estrogen is the cause or adenomyosis, or that it aggravates the symptoms, recommend avoiding products with xenoestrogens and/or recommend taking natural progesterone supplements.\n\n\nOther considerations\nThe differential of abnormal uterine bleeding includes\n\nendometrial polyps \nsubmucosal fibroids \nendometrial hyperplasia \nendometrial carcinoma \npost-menopausal atrophy \nIn a younger woman, considerations should be broadened to include\n\nspontaneous abortion \nectopic pregnancy
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There are multiple causes for primary amenorrhea once pregnancy, lactation and missed abortion are ruled out. These include:\n• anorexia nervosa/bulimia/malnutrition\n• extreme obesity\n• hyperthyroidism/hypoglycemia\n• congenital heart disease\n• cystic fibrosis/Crohn’s disease\n• genetic abnormalities\n• obstructions: imperforate hymen/vaginal or cervical absence\n• ovarian, pituitary (craniopharyngioma) or adrenal tumors\n• polycystic ovarian disease\n• testicular feminization It is rare for primary amenorrhea to be caused by tumors but it can be a cause and should always be a consideration if other factors are ruled out.
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Stress could definitely be the cause, but don't just assume it's the cause in your specific case. If you miss more than one, you should go see your doctor. Other possible causes: poor nutrition, extreme loss/gain of weight, extreme increase in physical activity, drug use (including some medications), or problems with pelvic organs.
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See your doctor.\n\nThe most likely cause is hemorrhoids which are easily treated if caught early.
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Fibroids are knots of overgrown muscle tissue of the uterus. They can cause pain and irregular or heavy menstrual bleeding. If the problem is bad enough, the treatment is surgery-hysterectomy
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome, colon polyps, and adhesions from any abdominal surgery (or problems such as endometriosis that cause adhesions) can lead to that mucous and blood problem. \n\nAnd you know...to the person who said it sounded like you had a fatty diet because of your screen name... well, that was just mean of them.
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Stress, pregnancy, hormonal imbalance, weight gain/loss, polyps, and cysts are some factors that can delay a cycle.
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Fibroids can cause very painful and heavy periods. They very rarely, if ever are cancerous. They can grow to a very large size and can be the reason why a lot of woman have hysterectomies. Sometimes they will strink once menopause sets in, and sometimes they won't. If your fibroids are causing you trouble and you know for sure you have a fibroid, then see your Gynecologist. With all the medicines available, no woman should have to tolerate extreme pain or heavy bleeding during 'that time' of the month.
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There can be a lot of reasons for this.  One of the big ones is being extreme exercise.  Other reasons are usually hormone related and there are many differnt causes.  Definately check with an OB-Gyn about it.\n\nI only had 2-3 periods a year from the time I was 14 until I had a hysterectomy when I was 45.  When I was 29 and got pregnant the first time, I had a miscarriage.  I then had 5 more miscarriages over the next few years.  I saw a fertility specialist, and found out I had what was called a luteal phase defect and my uterus did not build up enough early in pregnancy to support a baby.  There are medications to treat many hormone problems, so the best place to start is your ob-gyn.
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With todays medical advances hysterectomy should be your last option if you are truly dealing with Uterine Fibroid Tumors.\n\nI would recommend going to http://www.webmd.com to do some research on the different options you have.\n\nThere are a couple things you can consider doing surgically through laproscopic techniques to reduce or remove the fibroids.\nYou will probably need to do an Ultrasound and/or an MRI to help you & your doctor determine the best procedure to consider.\n\nI will say take the wait and see approach for a little bit before deciding to surgically remove them.  If they don't grow quickly  you might never have any need to do anything more than adjust your food & supplement intake.  The should stop growing after menopause since they feed on estrogen.\n\nYou do want to decrease caffeine and chocolates, eat less animal protein and normalize your hormones.\n\nThere is a great book I use for natural therapies and helps.  You might see if you can get your hands on it to do some quick research.  It's called Healthy Healing by Linda Page.  Or go to a good health food store and ask them if they have any information / products that can help.\n\nYOU HAVE LOTS OF CHOICES and should not be afraid of this diagnosis.  You don't have to lose your uterus and can still have babies.\n\nHope this helps\n\nUPDATE:\nThere is another helpful website I'd like to share http://www.mdchoice.com\n\nBaptist Hospital in Miami offers another solution not listed yet.  It is called Uterine Artrery Embolization. (UFE).  They have found there is one artery which supplies the fibroids in the Uterus.  Through a laproscopic procedure they inject very small pellets into this artery to block the blood flow.  When this happens the tumors will shrink and/or die.\n\nOne thing that I've learned is you can remove or have the UFE performed today but if your continue to produce fibroids you will have to deal with this again later.\n\nSo you will have to think about childbirth today and what you think you would want to do in the future when making this decision.
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Intestinal parasites. Also lots of different diseases could be responsible. See a doctor!