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Are Fibroids Still a Problem After Menopause?

Are Fibroids Still a Problem After Menopause? (0:32)

Once a woman hits menopause, fibroids are no longer an issue because she is no longer bleeding. In this video, John Lipman, MD, interventional radiologist, explains what might cause a post-menopausal woman to need a uterine fibroid embolization.

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Technically not, once a woman is in menopause obviously she's not bleeding anymore and usually fibroid are not an issue. Now on unusual occasions, we will treat typically recently post-menopausal women that have fibroid that are causing urinary frequency, and the fibroid are still compressing the bladder causing them to urinate more frequently getting them up at night, and so on that occasion we will treat a post menopausal woman to treat that specific problem.