You want to know whether what you feel every month is the same thing everyone else means when they say period cramps. Perhaps yours seem worse than your friends describe. Perhaps you are trying to work out whether the pain you have is ordinary or something you should mention. Nobody talks about this in enough […]

You were told you have fibroids and that they are being monitored. Nobody gave you a timeline. So you are left wondering whether the thing inside you is getting bigger by the month, whether the symptoms you have now are as bad as this gets, and whether waiting is a reasonable plan or a slow […]

Your report gave you a measurement, and you have spent the evening trying to work out what it means. You have found charts comparing fibroids to fruit, forum posts from women with numbers larger than yours who were told to wait, and others with smaller ones who had surgery. None of it has told you […]

You have got as far as considering the procedure, and now you want the part that the brochures tend to compress into a sentence. Not whether it works — you have probably read enough about that — but what it actually feels like afterward, what can go wrong, and whether there is anything you would […]

You have the report in front of you. It says your uterus is bulky. It lists measurements in centimetres, describes something as submucosal, mentions the anterior wall, and ends with a recommendation you do not fully follow. Nobody walked you through it, and your follow-up appointment is three weeks away. Imaging reports are written for […]

You have symptoms that have been building for a while — heavier periods, a pressure low in your pelvis, a lower abdomen that looks different than it used to. Somewhere in the reading you have done, fibroids came up. Now you want to know whether that is actually what you have, and what it takes […]

The pain does not stay in one place. It starts somewhere deep in your buttock or the back of your pelvis and travels down the back of your leg, sometimes as far as your calf. There may be numbness, or pins and needles, or a heaviness in that leg that makes stairs harder than they […]

Your waistband sits differently than it did two years ago. From the side, your lower abdomen has a curve that was not there before, and it does not shift regardless of what you eat or how much you exercise. Someone may have asked whether you are expecting. You laughed it off, and then thought about […]

Your scan report came back and somewhere in it was the word bulky, or enlarged. Perhaps a clinician mentioned in passing that your uterus felt larger than expected. Either way you were left with a term rather than an explanation, and the obvious question — larger because of what — was not answered. Start here: […]