GLC,

You are one of several women I know who have had the same horrible experience with doctors who mistreated/misdiagnosed fibroids. I don't get why doctors are so quick to write something like heavy, irregular and/or painful periods as basically normal. They're not normal.

One of my friends went through an insurance nightmare because she changed insurance companies after she's first told her OB about her heavy periods. Her doc wrote it off as perimenopause. So, when she switched insurers, she didn't reveal it as a preexisting condition because it hadn't been diagnosed as such. Well, it turned out she had a massive fibroid that required immediate surgery. The insurer refused coverage, and her appeal was denied.