India, Nov. 18 -- When a 30-year-old IT professional recently visited a hospital for a routine employment health check-up, she didn't expect anything out of the ordinary. Fit, active, and a regular at the gym, she had no pain, no menstrual irregularities, and no discomfort whatsoever. But what doctors found shocked everyone. She was carrying multiple fibroids equivalent to the size of an 8-month pregnant uterus. Her strong abdominal wall, built through consistent workouts, had masked the massive growth. According to gynaecologist Dr. Madhuri Vidyashankar P, this case underscores a crucial but often overlooked reality about how a belly could also be hiding asymptomatic or silent fibroids growing undetected.

The expert, who is also an Adva...