I don’t think the size was the cause of my issue during surgery. My surgeon said she had taken out larger ones laparoscopically. I can’t speak to a hysterectomy since I only had my fibroids removed, so I’m not sure if there would be a difference in waiting or not.

I had a 12-cm uterine fibroid removed last October. About two years’ prior my period suddenly became crazy-heavy (I was on the pill at the time), but no other symptoms until earlier last year when I began to feel something if I were, say, lying on my stomach. The fibroid was initially diagnosed with an ultrasound and…