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LIFE WITHOUT<\/h2>\n

FIBROIDS\ufeff<\/h1>\n

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MEDIA<\/h3>\n

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READ<\/p>\n

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SA Women Silently Suffering from Uterine Fibroids<\/a><\/h4>\n

Women who are suffering from uterine fibroids may experience heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, back and leg pains and a strange urge to eat clay. Thousands of SA women are silently suffering the devastating symptoms of untreated uterine fibroids. These are muscular, non-cancerous tumours that develop in the walls of the uterus.<\/p>\n

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New uterine fibroid treatment now available<\/a><\/h4>\n

Fibroids are benign growths that develop on the wall of the uterus causing heavy bleeding and intense period pain and, in some cases, infertility in women.<\/p>\n

\u201cUterine fibroid embolisation, or UFE, is a relatively new treatment in South Africa but it is very well established overseas with more than 30 000 UFEs being performed a year in the United States alone,\u201d said Dr Gary Sudwarts, an interventional radiologist working at the hospital.<\/p>\n

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Do you have uterine fibroids?<\/a><\/h4>\n

Johannesburg \u2013 Prolonged and heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, back and leg pains, pain during sex, feelings of exhaustion and even a strange urge to eat clay; these are just some of the troubling, even debilitating, symptoms that affect many of the hundreds of thousands of South African women who suffer from uterine fibroids.<\/p>\n

read more…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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SEE<\/p>\n

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HEAR<\/p>\n

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Uterine Fibroid Embolization<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Inspiration Wednesdays: White dress project & fibroids<\/span><\/h4>\n

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