Signature No.	Petitioner	Locality	Opinions
617.	L.J	London	I wish there was an organisation composed of all experts called Women First where treating us with respect and creating proper options/researching every angle rather than brutal operations that often create more problems. I am 59 with ovarian cysts and fibroids.The last recommendation was to have ovaries out and take HRT which obviously feeds the fibroids. This was at the Portland Hospital for Women.
616.	H.M	London
615.	S.H	London	More research needed into the root causes of fibroids, so prevention can be better
614.	S.D	London
613.	M.D	Glazebury	Please help as I have suffered for the last few years and I am still suffering.
612.	K.M	Horsham	Just had very painful hysterectomy due to fibroids. Told one was the size of a 22 week old baby.
611.	H.B	Bury
610.	K.R	Coventry
609.	G.C	London	I was diagnosed with a 5cm fibroid ten years ago and told there was no need to do anything. I am 34 and currently bedridden with a 11cm fibroid that needs to be removed by myomectomy. I am in abject pain, the fibroid is petruding and I cannot work. I feel the 'watch and wait'method is absurd, do we wait until things are this bad? I can't help wondering if they would watch and wait for a benign tumour to get to this size in a man's body.
608.	J.C	New Cross London	Living with fibroids is not living, its surviving as best you can. There is so little information about non-invasive treatments that often GPs will only consider surgery. We deserve better. There should be more awareness in fibroid research so we can make informed decisions about our treatment.
607.	K.W	London
606.	C.U	Loughborough
605.	G.B	HULL
604.	S.J	Little Weighton
603.	C.F	BRIDGEND
602.	T.C	Sothwick
601.	K.P	Rothersthorpe	I would love more research into fibroids; I am having a myomectomy next week and think that the more that is known about fibroids the better.
600.	T.J	Gillingham
599.	R.B	Brighton	It's a disgrace that women's health is so overlooked. MORE RESEARCH is desperately needed to help more women.
598.	H.O	London	Women should be given an internal exam when having cervical test. I went to my 3 year test without fail and never knew I had fibroids until I went to the UAE and was told during a routine exam. More women need to know sooner.....more funding for NHS to do internal exams as routine!