"For some women, this means longer or shorter periods, and for others it may mean cycles that become longer and more irregular."

Fibroids after menopause Are Less Noticeable Because They Decrease In Size


Fibroids growth among women is very common and at least a fifth of all women will report this condition while this percentage rises to eighty percent when they attain the age of fifty or more. Fibroids are really growths or tumors comprising muscle cells as well as tissues along the walls of the uterus. There is yet no real certainty amongst doctors about the exact causes of fibroids though theories abound with factors such as hormonal, genetics, environment as well as all three of these factors taken together contributing to fibroids occurrence.

Fibroids Can Be Caused By Estrogen

On the other hand, menopause is the stopping of monthly flow of blood in a woman who, if she does not experience menstrual flow for a whole year, is deemed to be menopausal. The cause of fibroids can be traced to estrogens such as estradiol, which help it to grow though fibroids after menopause may not be so noticeable. This may be because estrogen levels are usually high during the early stages of menopause.

Fibroids after menopause will not be noticeable because they decrease in size after menopause especially when the woman concerned does not take estrogen replacement. However, fibroids after menopause may not totally disappear and a small nucleus of the fibroid will still be remaining, which can once more be stimulated if some special kind of hormonal conditions become existent again.

Fibroids after menopause can often go undetected and women may fail to perceive the condition and even doctors may not feel the fibroids on examination of the pelvic region in most cases. This may be due to the fact that fibroids after menopause are below the resolution of ultrasound especially when there is no additional estrogen.

Thus, by taking estrogen as well as progestin replacement theory, fibroids after menopause may once more grow in the uterus of the woman, though the exact level of fibroids after menopause growth is yet to be ascertained by the medical fraternity. In any case, it is progestin that is a major cause of fibroids after menopause growth rather than estrogen.

However, not all estrogen will cause the growth of fibroids after menopause because weak estrogen such as estriol does not seem to cause the fibroids to grow back once more. It is therefore better to get conjugated estrogen of which estrone is predominant, or to use estriol instead of synthetic ethinyl estradiol, or even estradiol that occurs naturally for fibroids after menopause treatment.