They told me to remove my uterus. I refused.

Remove your uterus; it’s the simplest solution. My gynaecologist pronounced the verdict just months after I had my first miscarriage, hardly a year into my marriage. I remember sitting across from her with my arms wrapped around my abdomen, where the pain was the worst—it felt like someone had kicked me hard in the stomach. I was diagnosed with submucosal fibroids at the age of 26. It is a non-cancerous tumour that grows in the muscle just beneath the inner lining of the uterus and is common ...

By [email protected] (Haleema Younus)