“I was suffering all the time,” JillMartin writes. “Viewers were asking on social media if I had gained weight or if I was pregnant.”
Black women are two to three times more likely to have fibroids than white women, Dr. Brodman told TODAY.I know many of you are asking, “Is this what I have?” Well, here were my symptoms: I could not go anywhere without my heating pad. It hurt to have intercourse. I was physically distorted and bloated — see the photo of my stomach above; yes, that’s a fibroid — and I was in glaring pain most of the time. Oh, and another fabulous occurrence: When someone would say something funny, I would pee.
“Nobody likes a complainer,” my parents used to tell me when I was growing up. I live by that. After learning my story, so many people said to me, “You must be in so much pain, but I have never heard you complain.” I don’t complain when something is fixable — I fix it. At first, although my fibroids were painful, they were manageable. But recently they became so painful that I needed to do something. I researched my options, with help from my fiancé.
During our research, we came across something I had never heard of: uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive treatment in which blood flow is cut off to the fibroids, causing them to decrease in size. I called my gynecologist and she referred me to Dr. Marc Schiffman, a radiologist. I was in his Zoom office days later. We made an appointment to do the procedure.I thought I had two fibroids: one the size of a large grapefruit and the other a bit smaller than that.
Before discovering this treatment, I thought the only way to fix my pain meant getting a hysterectomy. After talking with other women who suffer from, I realized I'm not alone — many of them thought that a major surgery to remove their uterus was their only real solution, too. But there are other options. And when you are in pain, more often than not, it is time to do something.
I share my story because I think a lot of women don’t know all of their options for fibroid treatment. Dr. Schiffman told me that many women suffer for years because they think that surgery is the only solution, and that Black women in particular are less likely to be told of minimally invasive treatment options.
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