According to statistics, 70 percent of White women and 90 percent of Black women have had fibroids by age fifty. As a result of the often times debilitating condition, more than 200,000 hysterectomies are performed each year for uterine fibroids.
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Way before I got married and conceived my daughter, my OB/GYN sent me in for an ultrasound to determine the nature of what she thought was a fibroid during my annual pelvic exam. Though she said it was relatively small, she wanted to track it to see if it was growing and to also know […]
Many African-American women have experienced the impact of fibroids, which can cause weight gain, painful menstrual cycles, infertility, and other serious health-related issues. According to the…
A 47-year-old African-American woman has heavy menstrual bleeding and iron-deficiency anemia. She reports the frequent need to urinate during the night and throughout the day.…
Uterine fibroids are benign (non-cancerous) tumors of the uterus and the most common GYN problem for women. By the age of 50, about 80% of…
In the United States, black women are two to three times more likely to have fibroids than white women. These fibroids, which are noncancerous growths that…
Spotting. Itching. Tenderness. When below-the-belt symptoms crop up, your first impulse is probably to slip into a pair of pajamas and curl up on the couch. Holing away for a night or two is fine, but what if your symptoms last for weeks or even months? We’ve asked experts to decipher some down-there symptoms and […]
