My symptoms were extreme pain. So much in pain that maybe you'll throw up or you can't get off the ground. I've missed practices because of that. Just, you know, hugging the toilet. I live with autoimmune disease, so I thought maybe it was autoimmune anemia. But the source of her pelvic pain and heavy bleeding was something else. Fibroids, benign tumors that can grow in the uterus. I didn't know it was something like this, big like an orange. One doctor told me at the time I was maybe like 37 and he said, " ...