Can Fibroids Prevent Pregnancy?
Do you have fibroids and are you considering starting a family? If this is the case you may be asking yourself the question, “can fibroids prevent pregnancy?” The last thing you want is to go through months trying for a family, only to find that you cannot conceive and that you could have taken action beforehand to maximize your chances of becoming pregnant. Fibroids can affect pregnancy, but this is not always the case. Most women with fibroids will become pregnant normally and have a standard pregnancy without complications. However, some will find that despite months of trying, they cannot become pregnant and further investigation will indeed implicate their fibroids as being the cause. There are specific and obvious circumstances where fibroids can affect pregnancy and one rather obvious answer to the question “can fibroids prevent pregnancy” and that is, yes, where they are causing obstruction. By this, I mean that if your fibroids are located close to the cervix or at the end of
