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Meet Michelle – a Marketing Executive and mom\u00a0who had been living with undiagnosed adenomyosis for decades. \u201cAll my life I’ve been told, ‘This is what a woman\u2019s life is, you just deal with it.’ People who don\u2019t really get the symptoms that you get don\u2019t get it. It\u2019s just really hard, I suffered through a lot of pain in my life because of it.\u201d
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Michelle was eventually diagnosed with a small fibroid. However, her Ob\/Gyn at the time told her it was nothing to be alarmed about. “Nobody really took the time to find out why. I did have some doctors who tried and thought I had endometriosis, and that wasn\u2019t it. I never prayed for a diagnosis in my life, but I was like maybe if that\u2019s what it is, I can have hope.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
In 2020, Michelle discovered Viva Eve, where she encountered Dr. Gopal, Director of Ob\/Gyn<\/a>, who was concerned about her symptoms. “She said, ‘you\u2019re dealing with a lot of pain, maybe it\u2019s the fibroids, maybe it\u2019s something else, let\u2019s go check it out.’ I was really impressed by the level of urgency that she put behind it.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n After being sent to get an MRI, Michelle learned that she had adenomyosis<\/a> – a gynecological condition that causes the tissue that lines the uterus to grow into the uterus\u2019 muscular walls. It causes symptoms like heavy periods, pelvic pain, and bladder pressure. “I was like, well that makes all the sense in the world.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n Following her diagnosis, Michelle plans on undergoing the uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) procedure<\/a> to treat her adenomyosis<\/a> and fibroids. This procedure targets the affected areas of the uterus by cutting off the blood supply – leaving the uterus intact, but cutting the growths off of the oxygen and nutrients needed to sustain cellular activity. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michelle’s Adenomyosis Journey Meet Michelle – a Marketing Executive and mom\u00a0who had been living with undiagnosed adenomyosis for decades. \u201cAll my life I’ve been told, ‘This is what a woman\u2019s life is, you just deal with it.’ People who don\u2019t really get the symptoms that you get don\u2019t get it. It\u2019s just really hard, I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":9900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"2914,298,3166,7576,3238,5865","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fibroids"],"featured_image":{"blog-river":{"src":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Michelle-1-scaled-672x504.jpg","width":672,"height":504,"srcset":false,"alt":"Adenomyosis."}},"the_categories":[{"id":25,"name":"Fibroids","slug":"fibroids","taxonomy":"category","link":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/blog\/category\/fibroids\/"}],"the_author":"Katherine Muniz","formatted_date":"July 5, 2022","acf":[],"estimated_read_time":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9895"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10311,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9895\/revisions\/10311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivaevecom.kinsta.cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discovering Adenomyosis<\/a> <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n
“Dr. Gopal was was really good about asking me what I felt, how I felt. Those are things you should get when you go to a doctor. I\u2019ve learned to advocate for myself, but what was interesting at Viva Eve was, I didn\u2019t have to do that for myself. Because I felt like I was already being advocated for.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n