She did everything right.
She found a fibroid. She didn't ignore it. She didn't wait it out and hope it would go away on its own. She went to her doctor, got it checked, and was told the good news: she was a candidate for a laparoscopic myomectomy. The "less invasive" option. Smaller incisions. Quicker recovery. Back to normal life in weeks, not months.
She trusted the process. She went ahead.
And the surgery worked. That's the part nobody argues with. The fibroid was scraped out, laparoscopically, exactly as planned. On paper, on the discharge summary, in every conversation with her surgical team — it worked.
But nobody told her what came next.
Within a relatively short time, more than fifty new fibroids appeared. Not slower than before. Faster. Growing at a pace that outstripped whatever had been happening in her body before she ever set foot in that operating theatre.
She now looks six months pregnant.
Not from a baby. From fibroids that came back harder, faster, and in far greater numbers than the single one that was removed.
This Is The Story Nobody Tells You
Here's what I need you to understand, because it's the part that gets left out of every pre-op conversation, every leaflet, every reassuring chat with a surgeon who is, genuinely, trying to help you.
A myomectomy removes what's there. It does nothing to address why it's there.
Surgery is mechanical. It's a scalpel or a scope going in and taking out tissue that has already grown. That's all it was ever designed to do. It was never designed to ask the harder question: what, in this woman's body, created the conditions for that fibroid to grow in the first place? And more importantly is that condition still there, waiting, the moment she wakes up from surgery?
For most women, the answer is yes. Nothing changed. The inflammation that was present before surgery is present after surgery. The hormone imbalance that was present before is present after. The insulin resistance, the gut health, the toxic load, the nutrient deficiencies that quietly fuel fibroid growth none of that gets touched by a scalpel.
So the body does what it was already doing. Except now, there's nothing standing in its way. And in some women, that means faster, more aggressive regrowth than before.
This isn't a rare, freak occurrence whispered about in dark corners of the internet. It's a pattern I have seen again and again, in real women, in real consultations. Women who did the "responsible" thing. Women who trusted the system. Women who walked out of surgery believing the chapter was closed only to find it had barely started.
"I Wish I Did More When I Had The Chance"
I want to tell you something that has stayed with me, because I hear it more than I'd like to.
I've spoken to enough women who lived through exactly this. Women who had the surgery. Women who thought they were done. Women who found themselves back at square one or somewhere far worse than square one.
And almost every single one of them says some version of the same sentence:
"I wish I did more when I had the chance."
Not "I wish I hadn't had the surgery." Not "I wish I'd known nothing." They wish they had used the window of time before and after their operation to actually address what was driving their fibroids instead of assuming the surgery alone would handle it.
That sentence is the reason I do this work. Because that regret is preventable. Every single time.
The Difference Between Reactive And Proactive
There are two types of women in this story, and the only real difference between them is timing.
The reactive woman waits until the diagnosis, has the surgery, and hopes for the best. She treats the operation as the finish line. She finds out sometimes months later, sometimes with fifty new fibroids and a belly that looks six months pregnant, that the finish line was never where she thought it was.
The proactive woman treats the surgery as one part of a bigger picture, not the whole picture. Before she ever goes under anaesthetic, she's already working on the conditions in her body that are feeding fibroid growth. After she wakes up, she doesn't stop. She keeps addressing those same risk factors, because she understands that the fibroid was a symptom, not the disease itself.
One of these women gives her body a real chance to heal. The other gives her body a clean slate and no new instructions and bodies, left with no new instructions, tend to keep doing exactly what they were already doing.
If You Want To Carry A Baby Naturally, This Matters Even More
This isn't only about fibroids returning. For so many women, the reason a myomectomy is even on the table is fertility. You want your body ready to carry a baby. You want a uterus that can hold a pregnancy, not one that's fighting a regrowth pattern at the same time it's trying to support a baby.
Rushing into surgery without addressing what's underneath doesn't just risk regrowth. It risks the very outcome you had the surgery for in the first place.
Your risk factors the inflammation, the hormone imbalance, the gut and nutrient picture don't pause themselves out of respect for your fertility goals. If anything, they work against them, quietly, in the background, while you're focused on recovery and hope.
What Needs To Happen Before And After
You are allowed to ask for more than a surgery date. You are allowed to ask what's actually driving your fibroids, not just where they are and how big. You are allowed to walk into that operating theatre and out of it having addressed the real, underlying risk factors, instead of just the visible tissue.
This is the work. Not instead of surgery. Alongside it. Before it, so your body isn't fighting an uphill battle from day one of recovery. After it, so the same conditions that grew the first fibroid don't quietly grow fifty more.
Don't Become The Woman Who Wishes She'd Done More
You have a choice right now that the women I've spoken to didn't realise they had until it was too late.
You can wait, hope, and find out later whether your body was one of the ones that responds the way you wanted it to.
Or you can be proactive. You can get the right support around your specific risk factors, before and after your procedure, so you give your body every reason to heal the way you're hoping it will.
I've sat with too many women on the other side of "I wish I did more." I don't want you to be the next one.
Nina x
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