My Fight With Fibroids, Please Don't Make The Same Mistakes I Did.

The joys of being a woman!

For years I battled with fibroids, as they slowly grew bigger, life got harder and harder, and being the strong willed one that I am, I just learned to live with the symptoms until it all came crashing down on Christmas Day 2007…I don’t want to scare anyone or shame them into taking action, my goal is to stop women from going through what I did, as early action is way better than the cure.

My fight with fibroids started 15 years ago, after experiencing a miscarriage, my doctor performed a curette and let me know that I had some small fibroids that would need to be ‘shaved’ as they can grow with a point at the top, and this could be a threat to possible future pregnancies. Six weeks later I went in for the quick day surgery, and when I came out of the anaesthetic my doctor kindly informed me that they had disappeared all of their own accord. I had changed jobs from working 60 hours a week as a very stressed Corporate Travel Consultant to temping with Travel Agencies that needed relief staff, so I put it all down to a major reduction in stress that had fixed the ‘problem’. Fortunately I was able to go on and have two gorgeous daughters without worry.

I had always been one of the ‘blessed’ ones when it came to periods, they only lasted for 2-3 days, were light and I had never had a cramp, couldn’t understand what others girls kept complaining about. Five years ago, things slowly started to change, my periods got heavier and heavier and heavier. I would have times where it literally flooded out of me, but I kept on working, always carrying ‘supplies’ in my pocket for that quick dash to the toilet to refresh. Cramping started as a little niggle occasionally and got so bad that sometimes it would feel like a dagger was being twisted around in my uterus. I would come home from work and collapse on the couch, all energy drained from me, little did I know that anaemia had hit me hard due to the amount of Iron I was loosing, as my periods would go on for weeks.

A trip to the doctors confirmed my suspicions that fibroids were growing merrily and my only option was to have a hysterectomy. I didn’t want to know about that, having bits removed were not on my ‘to do’ list, not being able to drive for weeks didn’t impress me either. Relief was at hand with lovely medication prescribed to me that stopped the bleeding in it’s tracks (yippie!), but I could not stay on these forever, but did enjoy the relief they offered when I did use them. A mega dose Iron Supplement did help to improve my energy levels, and I did a lot of reading on natural therapies and tried quite a few, but never stuck with any of them long term.

Christmas Day 2007 was the last straw for me. Our family went out to lunch at a very nice restaurant, of which I spent the first hour sitting in the bathroom as the flow would not stop, even for a second. By the grace of god, it finally eased and very cautiously joined my family for lunch and was given ‘reprieve’ for the next 3 hours. When we got home the bleeding struck again, and I was having a shower looking at these huge clots falling to the floor. My husband walked in at this time and he went into panic mode, and before I knew it I was on my way to hospital. Merry Christmas to me…A big dose of Primolut would help the bleeding to stop and blood tests showed that I had lost so much blood, that had I stayed at home and not gone to hospital, I would have seen my in full Renal failure by the morning.

Needless to say I had to put up the flag of surrender and have a full hysterectomy as soon as possible. Because the fibroid was so large, I could not have keyhole surgery, but had to have the full cut, I could not drive for weeks and I was in a lot of pain even with the help of painkillers. I could not do my own housework, or cook or anything except laze on the couch and that was just so hard for me. It also took away my ability to have more children, even though in all honesty we didn’t really want any more, but the option was well and truly gone. It took months before I could comfortably sit at a desk chair, but I must say now that it is over and done with, I am very grateful for the outcome, but I should never have let it get out of control like I did.

Fibroids are usually benign tumours, and even though they can cause discomfort, they are not usually a direct threat to our long term wellbeing, unless they get out of control like mine. There is no simple ‘one stop’ remedy as fibroids have many factors that contribute to their growth. Please don’t end up like me, take action early and you CAN win the fibroid war.

There are lot's of natural ways to help treat fibroids, and prevention/intervention can help you avoid the more radical approaches such as surgery, and I wish I had discovered this early enough:- Click Here!

Good Luck!