Award-winning Ghanaian songstress Adina Thembi has shared her fibroid surgery experience with fans on her YouTube channel.
According to her, she dropped this new video on her fibroid journey to create awareness of fibroid and the need for every woman to understand the changes in their body before it is too late.
“I believe a lot of women have fibroids and they don’t know. They give excuses like I did, saying ‘Oh I need to work out or it is the Banku that I ate’; there are so many reasons why you could have a bulge but it is always good to check”
Sharing how she discovered she had fibroid, the ‘Take Care of You’ singer said she observed a protrusion of her stomach and subsequently visited the hospital where it was confirmed that she had fibroids.
In February 2021 Adina had a procedure to remove 16 fibroids. The process and every experience around it made her start a fibroid awareness campaign under her Beautiful Inside foundation.
Fibroids are abnormal growths that develop in or on a woman’s uterus. Sometimes these tumors become quite large and cause severe abdominal pain and heavy periods. In other cases, they cause no signs or symptoms at all. The growths are typically benign, or noncancerous. The cause of fibroids is unknown.
