I was diagnose when I was in my late thirties with fibriods.
At the time I was told that they usually diminish after the menopause, that treatment other than a hysterectomy is not usually available and that they cannot turn into cancer.
One of those who told me this was my father a GP, another my own GP and the third a gynaeocologist.
They caused me no trouble and I certainly wasn't prepared to consider a hysterectomy for something that wasn't bothering me.
Now, nearly thirty years later, I have just had an ovarian cyst removed and a small fibroid that was apparently outside my womb - presumably in the area known to doctors as fosse douglasi. I had been told I would need a hysterectomy, but after the op. the surgeon said that as my uterus was completely normal and the ovarian cyst didn't look malign, he had been afraid he would just cause problems if he removed the uterus.
The lab. tests proved him right; nothing they removed was malign or showing evidence of being pre-cancerous.
My experience leads me to say: do nothing, if the fibriods are not causing trouble, especially if you still are of the age to have children and want them.
I realised something was wrong because I started needing to wee all the time and had difficulty emptying my bladder and bowels .
These rather alarming symptoms were solely caused by the cyst putting pressure on the bladder and lower bowel.
So if the fibriods grow so big that they cause trouble, go back to the gynaeocologist.