You're planning to have surgery to take out large fibroids.

In women who do not wish to have more children, a large symptomatic fibroid is an accepted reason for hysterectomy.

The results can be dramatic, however, especially for women with multiple and very large fibroids.

A transabdominal ultrasound is commonly done in women to look for large uterine fibroids or other problems.

Your doctor may feel moderate and large uterine fibroids during a routine pelvic exam.

A myomectomy typically removes the largest fibroid, either through open surgery or small incisions.

Also larger fibroids may distort or block the fallopian tubes.

I have large uterine fibroids and have had them since I was in my early 30s.

So she had nine surgeries for endometriosis and a myomectomy to remove a large fibroid.

The process of destroying a larger fibroid with ultrasound waves, he said, takes "way too long."