Four years after giving birth to her son, Janet began to experience greater abdominal pain and heavier bleeding with each monthly period. Her physician performed a routine pelvic exam and discovered she had a fibroid tumor the size of a walnut as well as six others of various sizes. As time passed, her periods became so heavy she didn’t dare leave her home. Within nine months, she was anemic and in desperate need of medical care that would later require major abdominal surgery. Warning Signs Of Uterine Fibroids And Tips On How To Shrink Them Naturally Uterine fibroids will affect as many as three in four women at some point in their lives. Known as leiomyomas, myomas, or fibromyomas, uterine fibroids are benign tumors that grow within the smooth muscular tissue of the uterus. In some women, fibroids cause few symptoms and may go unnoticed. In others, they can cause symptoms so severe, as in Janet’s case, that their entire quality of life is compromised. Symptoms include heavy