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The 2 Things Every Black Woman Battling Fibroids & Infertility Should Know

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The 2 Things Every Black Woman Battling Fibroids & Infertility Should Know

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July is Fibroids Awareness Month and I am one of the 90 percent of Black women affected by fibroids by age 50. I was diagnosed with fibroids—smooth muscle tumors that form in the uterus—in 2001 at the age of 30.  From that moment on, I began a 14-year battle to overcome fibroids, the resulting infertility and a litany of other medical challenges.  The road to my healing was a long and grueling one that included:

  • 10 surgeries—five of them for fibroids
  • 5 in-vitro fertilization cycles
  • 1 heart-wrenching miscarriage
  • 120+ days combined in the hospital
  • A high risk pregnancy that resulted in my unborn baby fighting the fibroids that were siphoning off her blood supply at 21 weeks in utero
  • My heart stopping on the delivery…

Please read original article The 2 Things Every Black Woman Battling Fibroids & Infertility Should Know posted on Healthy Black Girls on 7 July 2017 | 10:05 pm —

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