I’m not at a good place with my fibroids right now. For the last couple of months life has been out of order and highly stressful and things won’t be settling down at least until the end of September. I haven’t been keeping up with my fibroid management routine. I’ve been working out so that’s been helping but working out alone won’t keep your fibroids under control, at least it hasn’t been the case for me that working out is enough by itself to manage my fibroids.
Right now I am having difficulty sitting. The one fibroid that tends to lodge itself right under my rib cage is doing its thing. It could be because of my cycle. I have a few days to wait and see, but for sure my stomach is not as flat as it was a couple of months back. Not that it was flat then. I don’t know if I can have my flat stomach back without getting the fibroids completely removed; but my stomach was definitely “flatter” a couple of months ago than it is today and the difference has been that I haven’t been keeping up with the regimen I designed for myself.
Things I know I don’t need to be eating I’ve been eating, and I haven’t been drinking my tea. On top of that I’ve been struggling to keep myself under control both emotionally and mentally. Life has been kind of rough around here. We’ll be moving to the mid-west in a few weeks and the preparing has taken quite a toll. Worrying about money, battling general anxiety, fighting with the husband, getting into it with my son. It’s been and still remains hectic around here and the only thing I’ve been managing to do is get some exercise, which is good because it does relieve some of the stress and anxiety but it’s like reducing it from 200% to 100%.
I was looking at some pictures of fibroids today and thinking they are so ugly and disgusting. To imagine I have several of those things in me; and sometimes I swear they are alive. The one that’s making it tough to sit down feels like it’s maybe about the size of a grapefruit. Sometimes I think I feel it throbbing. These things look like they belong in a horror film.
I found out several months ago that I have Fibroids. Don’t know how many yet, but with my sons Cesarean my doctor saw one (large) and was unable to remove due to its location behind the Uterus. For 2-3 months, I have been unable to sleep and or move comfortably. I have severe backpain and cramping. I’m curious in knowing if this happened to you in the beggining and what other options besides the Apple Cider Vinegar, have you considered. The pain is so much, I just want to get it removed. My next visit is in the coming weeks.
Hi Lena, my discomfort didn’t come about in the beginning. I found out I had fibroids either in 2007 or 2008. I can’t remember exactly. They didn’t really cause me much physical discomfort in the beginning but once they reached to the size where the doctor was telling me a hysterectomy was pretty much an emergency in my situation (November 2010) that’s about the time I began to experience difficulty even just sitting down.
When I was more actively working every day at trying to shrink the fibroids those problems had gone away. I don’t know if the fibroids had really shrunken because I never did get a chance to go back for a doctors visit since November 2010, but my stomach did get visibly smaller and I did stop having many of the problems I’d been experiencing.
Unfortunately some of the problems have started resurfacing in the last few months because I have not really been able to give my health primary focus in light of going through some very stressful transitions on the home front. Fibroid management is a full time preoccupation. I’ll be honest, although I still don’t think I want to get a hysterectomy, I’m not sure it won’t eventually come to that for me, because it’s tough living with fibroids when you sometimes can’t even sit.
I wish you the best, and hope you find the right solution for yourself.