Welcome to another episode of Food, Freedom, and Fertility. Host Sophia Pavia speaks with Dr. Valenson with Fibroid Institute Houston.

Dr. Valenson is a specialist in vascular and interventional procedures, focusing on providing personalized, outpatient care for uterine fibroids.

Fibroids are very common. As many as 3 out of 4 women will develop fibroids during their lifetimes. Most are unaware they have fibroids. Sometimes, doctors will accidentally discover fibroids during a routine pelvic or pregnancy exam, and then refer their patients to a specialist to have the fibroids treated.

Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus, or womb. Fibroids develop from the smooth muscular tissue of the womb. They may grow slowly or quickly, or they may simply stay the same size. However, if they get too large, they may start causing the painful and life-altering symptoms listed above.

In this epiosde Sophia and Dr. Valenson discuss what women can go to treat their fibroids especially if the fibroid is hindering them from getting pregnant.

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