Healing Fibroids: A Physicians Guide To Natural Cureby Warshowaky Allan, MD and Elena Oumano, PhDSimon Schuster, Inc., Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 USAPaperback, 2002, $ 14US / $ 21.50 CAN , 281 pp.One of the most difficult of all health complaints of women, fibroid tumors, usually treated by surgical removal of the tumor, and more often, hysterectomy is recommended. Among women of childbearing age, the incidence of fibroids is 25 to 40%, presenting women with difficult choices one of which is the possibility of not having children. Some women with fibroids have no symptoms, while others suffer from a lot of complaints, including abdominal pain and pressure, heavy menstrual bleeding, infertility, miscarriages, anemia and bladder irritation and infection. Fibroids can grow in many different places around and in the uterus and vary in size from barely visible to the size of a grapefruit. Fibroid tumors may be an inexhaustible source of pain, bleeding, and frustration.In 1, the basics, the authors explain what is known about this difficult health problem. Nobody really knows what causes fibroids, but it is suspected that longstanding disturbances that create hormonal imbalances can cause this condition. It is known that estrogen stimulates fibroid growth, opening the door to speculation about the environment sources.After a review of the numerous negative effects of hysterectomy, some new surgical procedures are limited to one look when I took a personal interest. Myomectomy: This procedure is considered by many in the field of medicine as heroic, as it involves removing only the fibroid and therefore should not interfere with the womans ability to bear children. However, the operation of conservative surgery is more difficult than a hysterectomy and therefore must be performed by a highly skilled surgeon. There were some drawbacks mentioned, such as prevention of fibroids will not grow back. What was so interesting to me is that 40 years ago, I was diagnosed with large fibroid growth through the uterine wall. My gynecologist is a physician well known in the Seattle area, and without having spoken to me before, spent considerable time in the operating room, removal of the tumor and repair of the uterine wall. It was certainly a man ahead of his time, and one of the best doctors I ever met. br br br br
