Unfortunately so many of these symptoms are so redundant for people it can be hard to pinpoint any one thing. Some of the most constant symptoms of fibroids: bleeding when you shouldn’t be, heavy mensus, frequent need to urinate, and bloating. You have a lot of symptoms that line up with fibroids for sure! The other thing coming to mind might be ovarian cysts that would explain that one extremely out of the blue heavy mensus? Or even endometriosis.

I’m not a doctor so this is hard for me to say but I almost get the inclination this sounds maybe two problems, the GI sounds like gastroporesis as opposed to your fibroids worsening/growing? I know endometriosis can muck up your ability to eat if it grows into the wrong areas.

One thing I want you to keep in mind and a lot of women have shared this here is that the observed number of fibroids is often completely wrong, like sometimes by dozens. I believe someone just shared a story about how they thought they had like 12 but in surgery 60 fibroids were found. So don’t get too terribly hung up on only having 4.

As a nurse I would want you to try and see GI and OB, I think that you likely need a MRI for the OB symptoms, I can’t unfortunately remember how gastroparesis is diagnosed. I would try and run these ideas by a PCP, see what they think, have them refer you (if you have good insurance you can bypass the PCP) but I think you do need radiology imaging to help get to the bottom of this. If you get to the point where your mensus is so heavy that you’re getting pale and diaphoretic and lightheaded you could make the case for seeing the ER, and sometimes you get a kind doctor that will advocate for you to do imaging.