Black Woman Working...

As July is fibroid awareness month, I am honored to share the July episode for @blackwomanwork. This episode, Black Woman Working... on normalizing black women health around fibroid awareness is a 2 part series, the second episode will post tomorrow, August 1. As mentioned in the month’s dedication, the July and August episodes will be on this very important topic, uterine fibroids. Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during childbearing years. Fibroids range in size from seedlings, undetectable by the human eye, to bulky masses that can distort and enlarge the uterus. Over their lifetime, about 80 percent of black women and 70 percent of white women will develop fibroids.  Relative to white women, black women are 2-3 times more likely to have fibroids, to develop them at younger ages, to have bigger fibroids, to have more fibroids, and to have more symptoms.  I have come to realize that many women, regardless of race suffer in silence and often alone once receiving th