If you’ve followed me or my blog for a while you know that I have a fibroid that just won’t quit. Fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that grow in or on a woman’s uterus. A doctor at the clinic told me mine is about 12cm. It has been very easy to spot if I just lay down on my back. It has a definite shape and sometimes grows and/or shrinks according to whim. This thing has been a thorn in my side and has caused me many a miserable day, bedridden and balled up in pain. The fibroid doesn’t hurt, per se, but it somehow causes women to have extreme cramping, and to bleed excessively with blood clots and the whole nine yards (dysmennorhea).