by ABC Anchor Linsey Davis spoke about her private experiences with a painful state of health.
The 47-year-old news speaker remembered it People Monday.
According to Mayo clinic, some symptoms of the disease can include severe menstrual bleeding or painful periods, longer or frequent periods or pelvic pressure or pain. While uterine fibroids are usually not dangerous, they can cause pain and lead to complications such as anemia, which represents the red blood cells.
Davis learned that she had an uterine myome 13 years ago, with her OG-Gyn told at the time that the case was mild and that she shouldn’t experience a lot of pain. While her doctor also warned her that she may not have children, in 2014 she successfully gave birth to her and her husband Paul Robert’s son Ayden.
“During my pregnancy, they said that the myoma grew together with the fetus, but it should be okay because the baby looks at a certain point in time. And that happened” People. “I had my son and had no concerns.”
Six years after greeting her son, Davis experienced symptoms, including “really drastically bad periods that might take two weeks” with “very intensive bleeding”.
From there, her gynecologist referred her to a fibroid specialist who asked her to get myomectomy, an operation to remove uterine myoma. While she was relieved to remove the six fibroids, she began to experience symptoms again a year and a half ago.
“I felt a little knot that protruded from the left side of my lower abdomen,” she said, noticing that her doctor believed that her pain came from a hernia. This time she had 13 fibroids detected.
She received several treatment options, including hysterectomy to remove the uterus, which ultimately decided.
“At that time I don’t want to have children anymore, which is the only reason for me why I would have tried to do another way to keep my uterus,” she said. “But at this point I just don’t think I need it. And the doctor seems to agree.”
Davis said [her] Life ”without worry about heavy bleeding or flatulence due to uterine fibroids.
Now the correspondent with the EMMY price-crowned correspondent is planning to raise awareness of fibroids. It also recognizes how often it is for women to be affected by the disease.
“Before that, I just normalized it and endured with a lot of discomfort and insisted,” she said. “If I had known in the past what I had to do and know the stories of other people, I would not have the feeling that I was in silence or laying about what I was going through.
According to a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, more than 80 percent of black women and 70 percent of white women at the age of 50 will have uterine myoma. Only 20 to 50 percent of all women with the diseases have symptoms.
Although fibroids do not affect pregnancy, some of them can cause infertility and loss of pregnancy, according to the Mayo clinic. Fibroids can also increase the risk of pregnancy complications such as placenta -abrupt, fetal growth restrictions and premature babies.
