Signature No. |
Petitioner |
Locality |
Opinions |
2440. |
M.Y |
Solihull
| I am a Certified Nutrition
Practitioner and I provide
therapy for clients with
uterine fibroids and I have
successfully provided
therapy that works - taking
them off the conveyor belt
for surgery. Its about time
PHE supports research in
this area. With successful
case studies like mine
treatment protocols can be
changed. Not only will they
save government millions of
pounds it will also result
in healthier, happier women
who dont want to have
surgery or hysterectomies. |
2439. |
L.M |
Brighton
| I have fibroids. I want more support and all I have been offered is invasive surgery.
I do not want this and I do not have 3 months to take off work after, to recover.
Why is this the main solution that is being offered. |
2438. |
F.G |
Clitheroe
| |
2437. |
O.B |
EDENBRIDGE
| |
2436. |
S.B |
Hurstpierpoint
| |
2435. |
E.O |
Salford
| L think its very important
.l've been bed bound living
with fibroids |
2434. |
H.W |
Bristol
| This is just NOT treated seriously by
gps esp if you are deemed pre or peri
ie mid forties. Not all people are
Worried about fertility but loosing
their uterus / ovaries to stop the
problems is a big decision. Not
enough knowledge known or
communicated without personal
research. Additionally the impact of
ostrogen / protrestegen (increase or
decrease & HRT) commonly
associated to breast & ovarian
cancer & osteoporosis but what
about cardiovascular issues... that’s
my family trait! There are Some
alternative procedures could be done
or provided earlier - but as this is all
too easily normalised and advised it
will get better once you reached
menopause. It’s dismissed as
another female thing to get used to .
So for My submuscal fibroid had
become so large it was nearly
impossible to do a smear test before I
was listened too / referred to gyno.
Symtoms: heavy bleeding, Back,
bladder and bowl presssure. Out one
laparoscopic hysterectomy surgery
undertaken 1 year later after taking
ulipristal to reduce size before
surgery (yucky miserable drug to be
on but better than the other) . That
said even after taking for 6 mths my
uterus was the size of 14 weeks
pregnancy. Not normal and I wasn’t
menopausal just carrying a oestrogen
fed fibroid that just kept on growing
despite efforts otherwise!
Please please can more information
and research be put into this. They
may benine but they ruin day to day
lives of so many. We should not need
to have such operations that quite
frankly have been done for centuries.
But to identify alternatives needs
investment and time. No-one wants
to automatically loose these organs
inc ovaries for possible cancer
reasons . More thoughts and
preventative approaches are needed
including hormone management that
might prevent or inhibit the growths
Becoming so troublesome. |
2433. |
G.P |
Frome
| I have just been diagnosed
with a very large
pedunculated uterine
fibroid, and face a possible
hysterectomy this year. The
more research I do, the more
shocked I am at how many
women are affected by
fibroids and how little
research has gone into it. I
also feel it is very
important that girls and
young women are taught about
fibroids as part of their
biology and sex education
lessons, so that they do not
carry on walking around for
years putting up with
symptoms that are dismissed
as "women's problems",
and/or losing their wombs. |
2432. |
G.M |
Watlington
| |
2431. |
H.M |
Swindon
| I have a large fibroid which
is now causing major damage to
my bladder bowel and have to
have total abdominal
hysterectomy. Yet i am still
being made to wait for surgery |
2430. |
C.D |
Cambridge
| |
2429. |
J.B |
Reading
| |
2428. |
J.R |
High Legh
| |
2427. |
W.C |
Bottesford
| |
2426. |
M.B |
Cannock
| |
2425. |
B.A |
London
| |
2424. |
N..S.L |
East ham
| It has been hard finding a consultant who treatment for fibroids is not diverse, open to discussions and simply tells me my only option is hysterectomy.
From discussions with black women, hysterectomy is the norm and choice is not explored and rarely offered. |
2423. |
K.C |
Newark Notts
| People forget or are unaware that
starting HRT can cause fibroids to
grow again |
2422. |
B.P |
Kings Hill
| |
2421. |
L.M |
Abingdon
| Totally agree that there needs to be
greater research into Fibroids as a
sufferer myself for quite a number of
years now. |