“My fibroid had started to turn to bone”: what it’s like to live with monster fibroids – and why it still takes years to get treatment

Rosella Dello Ioio fibroids

Credit: Rosella Dello Ioio

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“My fibroid had started to turn to bone”: what it’s like to live with monster fibroids – and why it still takes years to get treatment

By Rosella Dello Ioio

7 months ago

6 min read

At its largest, Rosella Dello Ioio’s ‘monster’ fibroid weighed 1.2 kilos, had calcified and was slowly turning to bone. It was so large that strangers had started to offer her their seats on the Tube, thinking she was pregnant. Fast forward six months and post-surgery, her life has been transformed. But it does raise the question: why is it still so hard to get treatment for a condition that affects 77% of women aged 20-50, and what can we do to reduce our chances of growth?


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