Progress Your Health Podcast

Uterine Fibroids are benign growths inside the uterus.  Some people do not know they even have fibroids and others have significant symptoms that can impact their quality of life. For more information, you can read our blog post about Uterine Fibroids. This podcast discusses: What are uterine fibroids? Typical physical and mental symptoms of fibroids. Causes of uterine fibroids What causes uterine fibroids to grow larger Uterine fibroids can be genetic, and you seem them run in families.  Or it can seem out of the blue, and no one in the family has them except you.  Either way, remember that uterine fibroids are not cancer. Uterine fibroids are benign growths. While fibroids are not cancer-causing, they can still affect a woman's quality of life.  Fibroids can have many symptoms from minor to excruciating. Symptoms of Uterine Fibroids:  Terrible period cramping.  Seriously a 15 out of 10 on a pain scale.  I have had some women that bring heating pads to work.  Some women take so much Tylenol and ib