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Hi KMS. I am 21 weeks pregnant. The ultrasound was scheduled for last week but I was on holiday so I had to change it for next Friday. You know we went by bus to Bariloche cause the airport was closed, it took us 20 bus hours to get there!. Luckily we could return by plane and did not have to go through the long journey again. I am glad I took all the dammed fibroids away otherwise I could not even think about doing something like that. Hope the doctor finds everything ok this Friday, but I am not suffering from any pain, except the normal back pain and that stuff. Hope everything keeps going fine.

KM, How's your recovery going? Less than 2 weeks to go for my AM. I'm scheduled for the 24th. I had the sonogram two days ago and I still don't really know the size of my fibroids. I don't know if I wasn't asking the right questions or if the sonogram tech was just being vague? All she told me was that the dr would call me in a couple of days with the results? She didn't know anything about my case or that I'm having surgery in less than 2 weeks even though she works in the drs office and had my file in front of her. I guess she's not required to review the file. She asked me if I was having pain or something related to the fibroids and asked when the last time I had a sonogram. She was the one who did the initial sonogram when I got pregnant and saw my baby for the first time and she was there everytime I came in for a check-up while I was pregnant. So, it was a bit frustrating that she had no clue that I'd lost my baby or that I had ever even been pregnant or why I was even there other than just knowing that I was there for a sonogram. I didn't bother to explain it to her. I just told her no that I was not having any pain from the fibroids and that I had my last sonogram when I was pregnant 3 months ago. She still didn't seem to understand so I just left it at that. I was getting upset so I decided to wait til my preop next wednesday to ask my dr all of the questions that I have. I know that she performs sonograms all day every day so I shouldn't expect for her to remember me but it was still annoying! Now I'm worried that the same thing will happen next Wednesday when I go in for my preop that my dr will forget that he's supposed to operate on me and ask me what I'm there to see him for!!! I can feel myself getting more and more anxious and annoyed and frustrated! I'm not worried about the surgery itself or the recovery so much as I'm worried about waking up without a uterus. That's my main and only fear right now. I'm really trying hard not to worry about it but I just can't help myself. I'm driving my DH crazy because I've taken on repainting several rooms in the house and staining cabinets and trim in the kitchen and diningroom after work and on weekends to take my mind off of everything and now the house is a mess! We put too much stain on the cabinets and now we're left with this sticky residue that we have to try to figure out how to get off!!! I'm panicking now because I want the house back in order before the surgery so that I don't have to come back home and look at a big mess! My DH went to the dr himself the other day and his blood pressure was up so I feel responsible... hopefully I can calm down and relax so that my husband won't get too frustrated and leave me! :-)

Thanks everyone for saying congratulations to me. Its been a crazy time of our life! I pray that everyone on this site get pregnant. Most people don't understand the struggles we have been through, losing a child is the hardest thing to go through, but God has a reason for everything. You guys have been such a wonderful support. Although we have never seen each other face to face, I still say Thanks for all of your support.

Hi Ladies- Well so much is happening. Damajuana and Kat congrats enjoy your time being preg i am so happy for you guys . KB- Hang in there you are going to be okay you will see when its all done tat you were just stressing yourself which right now is not good for you. You are lucky that you have this thread where you can get support when I had mine I felt so alone in the world no body understood what I was going through because nobody had been there before so i am telling you as someone who has been there It is not as bad as it sounds Thank God my Dr was God send. Just Like you I ws afraid I would wake up without my uterus. Ask your Dr ?s he or she should be able to answer without chewing his tongue Like how many of these has he done ,How comfortable is he and is he comfortble enough to tell you you will wake up with your uterus hashe ever had a negative outcome. If you feel uncomfortable with any of his answers run for it its your body you and once its done its done.Why I am saying this is because I went for a second and third opinion and one told me flat out that my fibroid was just too big I have to have my uterus out and the other one told me he will try but he had to do a cla__sic cut. Oh to make a long story short I still have my uterus i have a bikini cut which you would know it was there if you are not looking for it and the largest fibroid they took out was the size of a small mellon.My point being you have to trust your Dr BUT only after you have done enough research on him. I will keep you in my prayers you will be fine Dont stress yourself too much.sorry for being so long

Hi everyone! I've been away for a few days but reading the latest posts has been very inspiring and encouraging!!! Thank you! KM Williams~ that quote is AMAZING!!! I will forever refer to it as I continue on this journey of babyhood and believing in GOD! I also liked the advice you gave to KB. KB~ What you are feeling is very common. I. too, had serious concerns and doubts. I was afraid. However, if you trust your doctor and like the others like Jasp said, you'll be fine. I remember just hoping and praying that my uterus would be intact when I woke up from surgery. And it was. I later found out that my doctor came out of the OR - opertating room and told my husband after 4 hours (my surgery was scheduled for 1 and a half hours but she came out 4 hours later) that I should have had a hysterectomy for the 46 fibroids she removed - it doubled her record ever of fibroids removed!!! However, she told him how much she knew that we really wanted a baby and so she kept digging and digging for fibroids!!! I thank her to this day! So, continue to let your doctor know just how much you want to have a baby and I know your doctor would do the same for you! Also, try not to focus so much on the house - just do what you can to get it somewhat organized because when you get home post surgery, you'll need to rest in bed for a while and not be able to do things like painting for a while. Damajuana~ I am so glad you've made it this far with success in your pregnancy and can't wait for the remaining months to fly by until your baby is safely in your arms! It's also good that you got away for a vacation with your husband! Are you showing yet at 21 weeks? Kat 123~ how are you doing? I am in my 2ww and last week was fine because I was in the process of working a lot and keeping my mind on that. This week coming up will be a bit more challenging with more free time to think about my pregnancy test I will take on June 23rd at 8:00 am. Out of the 6 embryos that were transferred it would be such a blessing if just 1 could implant! Of course, I wouldn't mind twins either, but I am realistic for my age - 42 and would be so happy if 1 or any other amount would work! We'll see...have a wonderful day ladies! :) Sasha~

Hi all! I have news it´s a baby girl. She will be called Federica and fibroids have not returned, so I am having a good fibroid free pregnancy. I had my ultrasound last Friday and they gave me all this news. KB be brave, don´t worry so much, I was worried also because it´s almost impossible not to be worried about a surgery, but when everything pa__sed I couldn´t believe everything had pa__sed so quickly and easily. Everything will go fine. Good luck! Sasha keep us posted we want to know how it all went. Kat123 how is your pregnancy going?. KM Williams I want to know also where did the time go. It´s incredible we are the middle of the way.

Damajuana...A BABY GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How wonderful is that?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooooooooooooooooo happy for you!!! You must be smiling from ear to ear!! And NO FIBROIDS!!!!!!!!! What a Blessing!!!!!! How much longer do you have to go? Thanks for the well wishes for me! I'll know this time next week if this is my time or if we'll need to keep pressing forward! :) Sasha~

Damajuana congrats on the baby girl. I know you are so excited. I am happy for you. I hope you continue to have an uneventful pregnancy. I went to the dr. today for a sonohystogram and was a little down. I still have fibroids. I knew they left one but I was told I have a few so I am guessing maybe three. They are small but I am just tired of going through this. I am glad I had the surgery because they took out some big fibroids but sad that when I get pregnant I still have to deal with a fibroid pregnancy. KB your surgery is coming up soon how are you feeling? I hope you are relaxing as much as you can... (remember we know how you feel... we all have been there. Kat 123 how are you? PS I was told there wasn't any scar tissue and that I am still cleared to try in August. It seems so close yet so far away. Best of luck to all.

Hi KM, I'm sorry to hear that you have some small fibroids still lurking. I haven't seen any post on any of the forums that I've visited where someone has experienced a stillbirth due to fibroids and then had the abdominal myomectomy and had another stillbirth to occur afterwards. Believe me I've searched because that's one of my main concerns! I don't want to go through surgery and recovery and pain and everything else that comes with it just to have the same thing happen again. So, I just have to have faith that if my fibroids come back or if my doctor has to leave a few in or even if there's scar tissue that I will be able to carry to term the next time around. I have to believe that. I've read success stories of women who've lost their babies then had the surgery and the fibroids came back during a subsequent pregnancy but since they were small fibroids then they didn't cause any problems to their subsequent pregnancies. So I will pray for the same for you and myself and all the women who are going through this. I have had something to take my mind off of my impending surgery.... I ended up waking up this past Monday morning with an infection around my lower left wisdom tooth! So, I've been in terrible pain and ended up on antibiotics and pain medication!!!! Not the way that I wanted to spend the week prior to my surgery! The pain meds are so strong that I spent the day at work dizzy and vomiting!!!! I feel much better now that I've gotten the pain meds out of my system and I've just chosen to deal with the pain of the tooth until after my surgery then I'll have it pulled as soon as I can after the myomectomy!!!! I'm able to smile about it because since I'm on antibiotics to get rid of the infection the pain isn't as bad and should get much better by Tuesday so I shouldn't have to worry about the tooth on surgery day. But, I will still have to get it pulled soon. I guess that's one way to get me to calm down and stop stressing about surgery!!! ;-) I have my pre-op appointments tomorrow at my drs office first then immediately afterwards at the hospital. I'm not sure what all of that consists of but I was told that it's basically having the procedure explained to me, filling out the admission paperwork and possibly running some test. I've scheduled to take 6 weeks off from work starting next week and it looks like I'll need every day of that 6 weeks since I now have to get wisdom teeth pulled too!!! I'm hoping to feel up to having the teeth pulled 3 weeks after the AM (maybe sooner depending on how I feel)! Wish me luck!!!! KB

Hi all. Yes Sasha I am so happy we made it all the way long. Keep us posted with news! I was not sure that we could make it all the way long and most of your doubts are still mine. KM Williams, don't worry so much about fibroids, I have a friend who is seven months pregnant with two small fibroids and doing very well. Are you sure that your doctor removed all of them except from one?. Cause my doctor keeps telling me that they don't return so quickly, that it takes them a lot of time to return and to grow. Imagine that mine grew about 5 cms in 5 years. I know that each case is different and from the other one but that it's what he keeps telling me. I tried to find articles at Medline to see if there is case by case study but found nothing. Good luck anyway, I am sure everything will go fine with you. Good luck also KB, hope everything goes well.

Hey KM~ I'm in the same boat as you with fibroids returning. I had my surgery a year ago - May 7th and three have grown back. They are small about 2cm so we're not worrying just yet. Of course, when I get pregnant, it will be a concern, but for now, there's nothing I can do about it but pray. Hopefully, when I have the C section, my doctor will take them out while I'm open. My girlfriend had the same thing happen to her when she delivered her baby. She had had a previous myomectomy and then years later when pregnant and open for the C section, the doctor took them out. Keep your spirits up girl! We'll all be okay! And August is sooooooooooooooooooooooo close by!!!! :) Sasha

Hi All! I had my preop today and it went well. I asked my doc all of the questions on my list. I asked if he had ever lost a patient during surgery and he told me that he lost a patient 2 days after this surgery but it was determined during the autopsy that the lady had cancer around her heart so it wasn't actually related to the surgery. It caught me off guard because I expected for him to immediately say no! He's never had to perform an emergency hysterectomy and he will recycle my own blood if I need it vs. getting blood from someone else. One of my fibroids is the size of a softball. Two are the size of tennis b___s and the last one is the size of a golf ball. I was a bit surprised because I was told that they are only a tiny bit smaller than they were during the pregnancy. I guess that I expected for them to be extremely huge. I still feel very comfortable with him and since he's no longer on the OB side of things he's bringing in one of the OB doctors to a__sist with the surgery so that one of them will be familiar with my case when I am able to get pregnant again. To be honest it's the OB doctors at the practice that I don't feel very comfortable with because I don't them that well and he's the one that's been my primary OBGYN for several years so I'm very pleased that he thought to bring one of them in to get them familiar with me. I'm just ready to get it over with! Oh, and he did tell me that he often finds that there are a lot of smaller fibroids and that he most likely won't be able to remove them all and because I'm 32 and have several more years to go before menapause that I should expect for the fibroids to eventually return. But, he also said that it normally takes years for them to return to the point that they would cause problems in a pregnancy again. So, that was very rea__suring. The only stressful part of the meeting with my doc today was that he said that I should expect that my right fallopian tube will be compromised completely during this procedure because it appears that the fibroid has attached itself to that tube. That tube is already closed and he knows that I can get pregnant with just one tube because I did before so he told me that shouldn't be a problem in getting pregnant again but it's still a bummer to think that I may have to completely give up that tube. 6 days to go!!!!

Hello Everyone! Hope everyone is doing well. KB its almost time for you!!! You must be pretty excited! Well I wanted to mention to you that both my tubes were open before the surgery I had as well,(at least 5 years ago they were when checked) but after the myo, my right tube was also compromised, and is completely closed. The fibroids had made themselves a home down there and push my organs aside. They just took over!! The doctor had to re-insert my bladder and my intestine in there and make a home for them because of the big fibroids. I am only working with my left tube right now but believing and hoping that I will get pregnant with the one that is open soon. I am grateful to have one open. After all the testimonies on the board, it has really been a blessing to me and encouraging to me to read how so many others have gotten pregnant with just one tube. Not just on the board, but in other places as well. I really am encouraged by it. I just wanted to send you well wishes on your surgery and pray that all goes well. I am sure it will. God is so Faithful to us all. I am very happy to be alive and come through it myself with God's grace. I pray that peace will fill your heart and your mind and that you have a very successful surgery and speedy recovery! Blessings!

Hi all. I have been reading this thread from afar for a long time andam finally participating. First of all, what an awesome thread! Liek many of us, I had never even heard of fibroids until my Dr saw them when doing first ultrasound. I lost my baby at 16 weeks... it was awful. I kept closing my eyes to wish it all away but... well here I am. I had a myomectomy in July 07 and we were cleared to start ttc in january.Here's the great news - I'm PREGNANT :) I was so afraid it wouldn't happen but it has and it will for all of us. Everyone on this thread is just like me - we're all the same, just wishing and hoping that one day we'll actually have a real baby like everyone else. I feel pretty good now - i am just about 6 weeks. I think my stomach is bigger than it should be at 6 weeks but it could just be due to my excellent eating habits (not:). But ladies, we've all been thru the same tears and disbelief but I hope this is a bit encouraging to everyone. oh my largest fibroid was 9cm and I think they removed a total of 8

MsAnon, Welcome and Thank you for that encouragement!!! Congratulations on being pregnant! That is Awesome! Hopefully, I will be there one day soon! Congrats again! Hope all goes well and you can enjoy motherhood! I'm looking forward to it one day myself! Blessings!

Hello Girls! Hope all is well. Sorry, I have been away for awhile. I have alot going on... Moving on July 3rd... Twins are doing great. I took them to Ped. and they are now both 26inches... My daughter is 18lbs and my son is 16 1/2 pounds. They will be 5 months July 1st. KM-How are you, girly! I had to go back and read rom June 1st. Congratulations on the surgery! You did it, girl! I know that all will work out for you. Just be in constant prayer!!! Pray for direction! Girl, I didnt want to do IVF either but it was God's will for me if I wanted children. I was so upset. I felt like I was a broken woman... I cried... I wanted to be able to conceive like other women... The first visit to IVF was horrible. I was so angry. I went in the bathroom and cried. I was so embarra__sed to be there. Felt like everyone was watching me... Not realizing that everyone was there for the same reason... LoL! One day, God sat me down and told me that my focus is all wrong... He told me that I would have children... I knew this without a doubt and thats all I was supposed to believe. Now, how I got pregnant was another story... That wasnt for me to focus on. After this my outlook changed... As you guys know based on my pregnancy... My faith grew. And in the end, I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and girl. When I look at them today, I dont think to myself anything about IVF, fibroids, etc. I instead say "Thank You" to God. I I had to do it again, I would. Seeing my babies faces is all worth it. Never give up and if no one else believes... Make sure you believe until the end! God will not give you more than you can bare. Let go and let God! After all that I have gone through... I stand strong to tell you my story and to tell you to not give up! Watch your words... Be positive! Wow, I really miss you girls! In the words of Journey "Don't stop believin'!" I know it sounds corny but its true! SASHA-Yippee! So, happy for you girl! WOW!!! What state do you live in?DAMA-Hey, Mommy! How are you? Based on what I read you are well and soon to be cheek and cheek with Beautiul Baby Federica! :o) MS ANON-Congrats to you, girly! So happy! God bless! Yippee! KB-Let go and let God! Ask God for peace and or guidance. I just said a prayer for all you girls!!! JOKER-Where are you? I hope you are well. This is not like you to be gone so long...