Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

I don't want to be all negative.

No, that's why we're here.

I feel like it might come out negative because that's what I see.

Do you know what I'm saying?

I say my office, my waiting room is the waiting room of dismissed women in this country.

So I have a skewed view, but it's so real and it's so painful to watch that, you know, that's why I sound a little negative, but I'm not a negative person.

Fibroids are very common.

By age 50, 80% of women have some form of fibroids.

Like if you stand at the side of the street and pull out 100 women, you know, a lot of them will have fibroids.

When it comes to fibroids, the location of the fibroid is very important.

You can have a small fibroid in the lining of that cavity that we talked about that can cause you to have heavy periods, blood clots, you become anemic, fertility issues, all of that.

Or you can have a 10 centimeter fibroid outside of the uterus that can make you look like you're pregnant, but it doesn't do anything to your bleeding.

So when it comes to fibroids, the location of it is very important.

For patients who have small fibroids, it's away from the cavity.

They don't have any symptoms.

We just watch them.

As they grow, you're more likely, you know, women in their 40s are very likely to have fibroids or develop fibroids.

But if it doesn't bother them, we don't do anything.

We operate on fibroids for several reasons.

Number one, if it's inside the cavity and it causes...