For many women, living with fibroids can seem intolerable at times and the difficulty is that treatment options are somewhat limited. Surgery is rarely the permanent solution that is hoped for, with fibroids often beginning to regrow within months. A hysterectomy is considered to be major surgery and so does not only have serious health implications, but the after effects on the woman's hormones and subsequent health be significant and this operation is only ever recommended in the most extreme circumstances.

So where does this leave you?

Many women have successfully used natural treatment for fibroids, but it must be stressed that this is not necessarily an easy option. To even consider this, you will need to be in the right mindset and motivated enough to make various lifestyle and dietary changes for it to be effective. If you have been searching for natural fibroid treatment for some time, you may have read claims that you simply need to take a couple of simple steps and all will be well.

If only it were that simple!

It is important to remember that fibroids are thought to occur due to the subtle interaction of a number of factors which simultaneously happen in a woman's body. Even experts struggle to precisely identify exactly what has caused fibroids in an individual, although what they do know is what the wide range of possible factors are-the rest can almost be guesswork. This is one of the reasons why doctors tend to treat the symptoms of fibroids as identifying the causes can be almost impossible.

This does not mean that successful natural treatment for fibroids is impossible. However, what is does mean is that like the causes, successful treatment needs to have a multifaceted approach which encompasses all the possible causes of fibroids, focusing on the most likely ones, but still ensuring that nothing is left to chance. This means identifying all the potential root causes of fibroids and eliminating them.

As you might imagine, this can mean taking a close look at your lifestyle and could mean altering it radically and how successful you are at shrinking your fibroids will largely depend on how motivated you are to take these steps. In some ways, this could be directly related to how much trouble your fibroids are causing you. I would guess that if your fibroids are large and causing day to day problems, your motivation to do something practical will be pretty high!

Using natural treatment for fibroids will always involve controlling the amount of estrogen within the body as this often underlies fibroid growth in most women. However, the control of this hormone alone will not be sufficient to effect a cure, although there is no doubt that it would help temporarily. One way of doing this is simply to maintain a healthy weight as estrogen is both manufactured by, and stored in fat cells. Other natural treatments will involve the use of herbal remedies for fibroids and detoxing, to remove environmental toxins from the liver.

If there is a good thing about fibroids, it is that they are rarely dangerous and this therefore gives women time to decide what to do and time to try out natural treatment for fibroids should they think this might be an option for them.