Symptoms improve by losing weight?

Has anyone had any experience of losing weight a stone or more, and noticing any improvement in their fibroid symptoms?

I actually have a 12cm penduculated fibroid (outside uterus) and scheduled for surgery 9/22. I love to walk and I have noticed that when I walk and lose a few pounds or just walk I feel much better. It may be that my fibroid is large and taking up a lot of room so when I lose weight I have more room for everything.

Hi Machchic,

Thanks for reply. Good luck with your surgery. Hope you soon start to feel heaps better.

Not in my case. I lost 30 lbs in the year and half before surgery and my symptoms got steadily worse because the fibroids decided to go on a growth splurge. As to symptoms, I really only had the non-existant bladder capacity and the extended stomach. The weight loss actually helped me find the fibroids as I couldn't figure out why I still had a tummy after losing the weight. My bladder is totally back to normal after the surgery. I hope this helps.

Hi again Danni,

That is most interesting. I am overweight but feel that my tummy is disproportionately large. I've probably put on a stone in the last 12 months and wondered if this had aggravated my symptoms. I'm about 13 stone now and can't really tell where my fibroids are.

If you lie on your back, can you feel something hard at the base of your tummy? That is your uterus and fibroids. I originally felt something hard about the size of a baseball and that is why I went to see the doctor. After 5 months of waiting for appointments, second consultations and the surgery, my uterus had grown to the size of a volleyball (It reached up to my belly button). It was 20 x 18 cm when they took it out. The strange thing is that I thought I would feel a huge difference inside me when you take something that huge out but I didn't feel anything different. My tummy was much flatter but I didn't feel empty or anything, unlike I did after I had my daughter.