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Rosta, a long-awaited myomectomy 

I wake up in this hospital room. I don’t feel any pain. Is it the effects of the anesthesia or simply the joy of knowing that the uterine fibroids have finally been removed? I don’t know. My uterus has been slit. More than a dozen fibroids have been removed. More than three hours under general […]

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Mounia, 30 years old – My pregnancy, my miracle

Hello, my name is Mounia. I am French of Beninese origin. I am 30 years old, and I have a fibroid uterus. It all started a year and a half ago when I suddenly started having dizziness, menorrhagia (abnormally abundant and longer periods) and dysmenorrhea (pain during menstruation) more severe than during puberty. So I […]

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Cathia, I am a survivor who chose hysterectomy

Hello, my name is Cathia and I am a survivor. I’d had very abundant menstruations for a week. I knew it was due to the fibroids I had had for years. At dawn on June 14, 2017, during my week’s vacation, I was losing a lot – far too much – blood (large clots). My […]

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Sandrine, 38 years old; I have a fibroid uterus and I had a child through in vitro fertilization

Hello, my name is Sandrine, I am African, I am 38 years old, and I have a fibroid uterus. It all started 8 years ago when I discovered that I had a small more or less rounded lump in my lower abdomen which, although painless, worried me a lot. Yes, feeling that you have a […]