Last October I received an email from someone who had read some of the articles on my blog. She told me that it seemed to her that I was giving fibroids too much power in my life. Her email was very interesting. She shared her own story about her battle with fibroids. I wanted to share it on the blog because I think it is worthwhile for anyone battling fibroids to read. But unfortunately I did not hear back from her after writing to ask her permission to share the email.
The gist of the email was that I needed to no longer empower my fibroids. I needed to keep myself aware that there are people in the world who have serious problems. And keeping that in mind, I needed to try to dwell less on my problems. Which is not to say that there aren’t people with fibroids for whom the problem is serious. There’s a tendency to talk about fibroids as if they are harmless but women can and have died due to complications caused by fibroids. Even so, most women with fibroids do not have such a serious issue with it that it places their life in danger.
So the suggestion made by this lady was that I not let my fibroids dictate how I live my life. She said that this method worked for her. That she once thought she had shrunken them using natural means but that turned out not to be the case. And since then she made a decision to live healthy for herself and to be happy for herself and not factor her fibroids into the equation. In other words she wasn’t going to try to be happy and healthy in order to keep the fibroids from growing or help them to shrink. She chose to ignore her fibroids and treat them like they were an insignificant part of herself that would soon be history. And from that point her situation improved. She still has fibroids. She still gets bloated; but she’s amazing doctors with how well she’s doing given the number and sizes of her fibroids.
I have definitely been allowing my fibroid situation to dominate my life for too many years.
