My name is Ruth. I am 38 years old, and what I’m about to share is not easy.

It still hurts every time I talk about it, but if it will save even one woman from
what I went through, then it’s worth telling.

It all started with small changes.

My periods became heavier than usual. Sometimes they would last 7 to 10 days. I felt bloated all the time. There was this strange pain in my lower belly that would come and go. But like most women, I ignored it. I thought maybe I was just stressed or tired. I told myself it was normal. I didn’t want to seem weak or complain too much.

But the truth was something was growing inside me. Quietly. Silently. Like a thief in the night.

By the time I went to the hospital in Lusaka, it was already too late. The doctors said the fibroids had taken over my womb. They looked at me with sad eyes and told me my only option was surgery. But not the kind of surgery that gives you hope. The kind that takes something away forever.

They removed my womb.

I didn’t cry at first. I just sat there in silence. The tears came later. They came at night when everyone else was asleep. They came when I saw baby clothes in the market. They came when someone asked me when I would have children and I had to fake a smile.

Something inside me died that day. Not just my womb. But my dream. My hope. My identity as a woman.

But the story does not end there.

A year later, my younger sister Mary started showing the same signs. Heavy bleeding. Constant pain. Swollen stomach. I watched her wince in pain just trying to stand up from bed. My heart shattered all over again.

I couldn’t go through that pain twice. I couldn’t sit back and watch fibroids destroy her life too. I had already lost mine.

That’s when I came across Fibroid cyst Fix. I saw women sharing testimonies online about how it helped shrink their fibroids naturally. I didn’t want to believe it at first. I had tried so many things and nothing worked for me. But this time it was not about me. It was about Mary.