Venus Williams accuses doctors of dismissing her fibroid symptoms for years
By OLIVER SALT
Tennis icon Venus Williams has opened up on her terrifying battle with fibroids - and revealed doctors initially misdiagnosed the problem as normal period symptoms.
Williams, who has won seven women's grand slam singles championships, discussed her painful experience during an interview with TODAY.
The 45-year-old says that when she approached doctors with concerns about her period pains, those concerns were dismissed as 'normal'. But the problem eventually turned out to be fibroids - which are benign smooth muscle tumors of the uterus.
'As bad as things were for me, crazy amounts of bleeding like you couldn’t imagine … my doctors told me it was normal,' she said. 'I never realized (anything) was wrong.'
'I thought maybe it was autoimmune anemia,' Williams added. 'It was what I was dealing with inside, which was fibroids and something else I had never heard of, which is adenomyosis.'
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