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Besides pregnancy, what will cause an enlarged uterus?

My Doctor said that mine is 4 times as large as it should be. I had a bunch of diagostic tests done last week and go back for the results this week. I'm definately not pregnant (I think you actually have to DO something to get in that condition, don't you? LOL) I'm not sure if I might have a fibroid causing the problem or not. I had an endometrial biopsy and it showed nothing out of the ordinary.
If nothing is found, I wonder if steroids would shrink it's size? It is causing some issues being this large, and I'd love to avoid surgery, especially a histerectomy if I can, Can taking prednisone shrink the uterus? Any other suggestions? (the main issues I have seem to have to do with prolapse problems.)

An enlarged uterus is usually due to fibroids, infection, or endometriosis.Sometimes this can be normal, as it could just be sitting high, but since you have other symptoms, this most likely isn't normal. Your doctor would need to do further evaluation, to determine the exact cause. You can read more about fibroids here
http://www.fibroids.net/aboutfibroids.ht...

Fibroid, a tumour of some kind.
I had a hysteropexy surgery because I refused to have a hysterectomy myself, it did solve the prolapse problem, but you really cannot do any kind of lifting for AGES, the longer you don't lift, the more chance it will stay in place. But they would have to do something about the swelling first. What they use depends on the cause of the swelling.

Sometimes it's just something that runs in families. All the women on my mother's side have enlarged uteruses, without there being fibroids or polyps to start with.

As for treatment, it's hard to know.

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