Uterine fibroid nightmare.

When I moved to Texas i was 37 yrs old and really had bad menstrual cycles and only kept getting worse as i got older. I want to my doctor and complained about the heavy bleeding and the pain but they always seemed to dismiss my worries, I was even told that it was probably that my body was changing and I was becoming premenopausal..... Hmm what? When I was 40 I noticed that I was craving ice all the time and was literally eating 10 lbs of ice a day . When telling the doctor he said it was because i was a little anemic due to my heavy cycles and to just take iron supplements. By the time I was 44 in 2017 I had been to several doctors with complaints about heavy bleeding and easily bleeding up to 20 or more days a month
🤔 . I was then eating up to 20 or more lbs of ice a day I was swelling up and it felt like someone was sitting on my chest whenever I would lay down in bed. Finally I had found a doctor to listen and said that they didn't know what it might be but referring me to a gynecologist was what I needed. Before I even got to make an appointment with the obgyn, I woke up in a Methodist hospital in the cardiac unit, and was told I'd been brought by my two sons after losing consciousness outside our house. After being admitted I'd had I heart cath, two blood transfusions, cauterazation of uterine fibroids, and now I have irreversible damage done to my heart and would always have heart failure as a result of my uterine fibroids bleeding out for the last year or more leaving my body with absolutely no blood in my body for my heart to pump making my heart stop and losing consciousness.. I was out for 36 hours or more in the hospital for almost two weeks had lost 60 lbs from all the fluid I had built up in my body, and a white stripe in my hair from all the shock my body had just gone through. I was supposed to have a complete hysterectomy but my heart wasn't stable enough to gave the surgery and when I left the hospital my heart rate was 32 beats a minute and I wore a difibulator vest incase my heart stopped beating again. Over time and lots of mess my heart rate has gone up no longer wear the vest I did have to go back and have another transfusion but nothing major since. My health has never been great since though. And now I'm 52 and although it's not real heavy I'm menstruating twice a month up to fifteen days a month, my stomach is swelled legs and back hurt and again I feel like I'm swelling up again even with taking diuretics daily. Maybe it's time to have this surgery. I figured I'd be close to menopause since I have had my period since I was 10 yrs old but flow just keeps coming. I really don't think many doctors think about fibroids when talking to a woman like me. I also believe that more women should be aware of this potentially deadly problem.. I'm not sure if it's hereditary but my daughter had to have a hysterectomy before she was ever able to have children due to fibroids. What else can I do? I'm kinda fearful about a surgery but I don't want to keep doing this.