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Making Your Voice Heard After a Uterine Fibroids Diagnosis: Steps to Empowerment

In the journey following a UF diagnosis, self-advocacy becomes a powerful catalyst for positive change. It’s about taking an active role in your own care, asking questions, seeking information, and making choices that align with your needs and preferences. Advocating for yourself is essential, as it ensures that your voice is heard, your concerns addressed, …

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breaking down these 4 fibroid related terms

Breaking down these 4 fibroid-related terms

For many women, a diagnosis of uterine fibroids means entering into an unfamiliar world, replete with specific medical jargon that you’ve likely to have never previously heard. Whether it’s within discussions focused on hormones, growths, or potential treatment paths, or listening to your doctor describe your condition, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and confused when …

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Fashion tips for Uterine Fibroids

Fashion tips for fibroids: How to dress while you’re experiencing UF symptoms

For millions of women around the world living with uterine fibroids, symptoms associated with this condition, including pelvic pain, heavy menstrual flows, and abdominal bloating, significantly impacts their daily lives, including fashion choices. Pelvic pain can make tight or restrictive clothing uncomfortable, while heavy menstrual flows can create concerns about leakage and potentially visible stains. …

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Dietary supplements, vitamins, and UF relief: What you need to know

Living with uterine fibroids often means managing challenging physical symptoms, like heavy periods, back and pelvic pain, and bloating. That’s not to mention the emotional and mental toll that comes along with the diagnosis, as it’s common for women who discover they have the condition to worry about the potential long-term impacts on their health …

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Fibroid Lifestyle Hacks: 3 tips for managing heavy periods during outdoor activities

With spring upon us, you’re probably looking forward to soaking in the sun and making the most of the warmer weather. Maybe you’re planning on hiking, swimming, camping, or engaging in another outdoor activity. But with heavy bleeding caused by your fibroids, you may feel like spending time outside of the house isn’t possible.  A …

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Knowledge for fibroid lifestyle hacks: dietary choices

With numerous proven connections between dietary choices and the prevalence of specific diseases, it’s clear that our choices – such as eating or avoiding certain foods – do affect our overall health. This is also the case when it comes to uterine fibroids. While about 70 percent of women will develop fibroids at some point …

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World Health Day: fibroid heroes around the world

Uterine fibroids affect millions of women around the world, with an estimated 20 to 70 percent of women developing the condition at some point in their lifetimes. The impact of living with fibroids crosses international and cultural barriers, but treatment options and the stigma around publicly discussing the condition varies by country. In honour of …

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Meet 3 women raising awareness around fibroids and women’s health

In honor of Women’s Day, we’re highlighting 3 amazing women who are raising public awareness around fibroids and other health issues affecting women all over the world. These ladies have all taken the brave step of going public with their uterine fibroids, and speaking openly about their physical symptoms, treatments they’ve undergone, and emotional and …

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