How fast do fibroids grow?

referring to uterine fibroids. Can the hormones from breastfeeding cause them to grow quicker? if so, how quickly? Does anyone have any experience with this? I am breastfeeding full time, am NOT on birthcontrol and cannot get pregnant(hubby had vasectomy). I might have a fibroid but haven't had this confirmed yet. I had an ultrasound and I'm seeing my doc soon for the follow-up. I guess I'm just nervous and never get enough time at appointments

In my case, uterine fibroids grew very fast. I had a surgery in 2005 to remove 28 fibroids of size 16 weeks pregnancy but they grew back just within 1 year as big as size of 20 weeks pregnancy.
Now I have to take another surgery to remove, may be, my whole uterus.

Not as fast as a baby in the womb. It takes several years to slowly enlarge. There usually are several growing at the same time. I have seen 15 -20 in the same uterus. All in different size range. When they get to an overall size of 2-3 month pregnancy you can start to feel the enlarged uterus fairly easily on abdominal exam. It takes usually several years for them to get that big.

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