Sadly 70% to 80% of women in the UK up to the age of 50 will be affected by Uterine fibroids.

Uterine fibroids are a tumour which grows within the uterus, Fibroids range in size from seedlings, undetectable by the human eye, to bulky masses that can distort and enlarge the uterus. You can have a single fibroid or multiple ones. In extreme cases, multiple fibroids can expand the uterus so much that it reaches the rib cage and can add weight. There are three types of fibroids, all cause multiple life, debilitating changes destroying your quality of life. 

Women are left to suffer in silence, excruciating pain and at times unable to leave their homes. Women can bleed from days to months, loosing very large clots, causing cramps which are equal to being in labour. The large tampons and sanitary towels are not enough, women can bleed through these in minutes, you often haemorrhage and require life saving blood transfusions and iron via IV. They are offered medication to slow the bleeding but there are procedures available for women that are not often offered instead sent home until the next time.

Some tumours can make women look pregnant, these growths sit against your bowel and bladder, causing kidney infections, UTIs, the urge to pass urine more frequently or feel the urge to go. The growths sit on the colon causing very painful constipation.

One of the most common health complication is anaemia, starving your organs of oxygen especially your brain causing horrid symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, tiredness, weak, shortness of breath, chest pain, confusion, constipation, enlarged tongue, enlarged lymph nodes and so much more.

Sadly one of the other health complications is mental health, depression and anxiety. We have read from fellow fibroid sufferers how they can no longer live in pain and would rather end their life’s instead of suffering, this isn’t acceptable.

Many women have to give up employment as bleeding through clothing is often, and the pain is unbearable. You are to scared to leave your home, becoming a recluse, worried of having an accident in public. Some days it’s difficult to walk due to the pain in your pelvis, legs and back. Constant hormones make you feel low and depressed with painful, burning breasts.

Fibroids also steal the rights of women becoming a mother, they make you infertile, the pain of wanting to become a mother can be to much to cope with. 
Fibroids can cause relationships to fail as you can’t get close to the one you love.

Their are millions of women in the UK alone who are begging, desperate for treatment which is refused. Treatments are offered instead of cures, being sent home with no support, scared and frightened and left like this for decades. There are treatments which can cure fibroids, instead they are refused. Instead women are poked and prodded, biopsies with no gas and air feeling every snip of the tumour, it’s feels as though your being butchered. Countless cameras equally as painful inserted and whilst they use excuses to delay treatments another year has passed and you have to start the circle again. 

Please sign our petition and give us women a voice, we are screaming for help and never heard. Some women with no support believe this is normal and it is not. 
Support us women and allow us to fight for the procedures which should be rightly ours and give us a quality of life again!

Fibroids services in the UK are very poor
Many Women are having repeat Ops & longterm Drugs and lots of side effects and new problems by the way fibroids are removed by minimal surgery. Personal view is it’s not the fibroids that are the issue, it’s low quality treatments & No Audits.

Changes which need to be addressed, investigated and implemented.

1. Access to procedures which can cure all types of fibroids which cause a detrimental impact on life instead of prolonged treatments and medication offered which does not give the individual any type of quality of life.

2. Hysterectomy is often advised as the only suitable option when alternatively less intrusive options are available such as Myomectomy , Hysteroscopic resection of fibroids, Hysteroscopic morcellation of fibroids, Uterine artery embolisation (UAE). Many women find themselves waiting for years to decades before they are offered any of the above, most women are told a hysterectomy is the only cure.

3. Often women are delayed a cure and find themselves for many years dependent on medications such as Codeine which the user tends to find their bodies can’t cope when not taking them, they become addicted. Norethisterone is used to make the body believe your not menstruating, this upsets your hormones and women often find they bleed a lot heavier, with even larger clots and more painful, hair loss, bloating, you also bleed for longer. Tranexamic acid is used to clot the blood, however women are putting themselves at risk by potentially causing blood clots.

4. National Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Audit is outdated, an up to date Audit is required, this will help to understand how services have slipped over the years and will truthfully highlight the poor, lengthy waiting times women have to cope with.

5. Specialists advise during appointments, this has been recognised by many women who suffer with fibroids, any cure is rejected due to the size of the fibroid. The impact it has on a women’s life is not investigated nor taken into account. If a women is unable to carry out daily duties, often due to painful cramps, haemorrhaging, bleeding through clothing many times an hour, anaemia, UTIs, leaking urine unintentionally, painful hips, legs, back, severe painful constipation, changes in hormones, depression and anxiety, these conditions need to be included when assessing a patient. Women often become very low and lonely, unable to work, socialise, leave their home for simple tasks like shopping. Attitudes have to change, women should not be left to suffer and expected just to deal with these tumours on their own.

This petition is for all women, for those who suffer with endometriosis, infertility , PCOS, cysts and all the other gynaecological challenges us women face which we get no support 

Fight for your future daughters and don’t let their life’s be robbed and destroyed like ours.