I recently lived this, so I know Beth could too. You adjust. It was so bad for me that I wore pads inside adult diapers to keep from ruining clothes, bedding, furniture, car seats while my doctors tried to figure out what was going on. I had other problems, the oncologist suspected ovarian cancer, in addition to fibroids. My husband and I both cried when I was wheeled into surgery because I was as afraid of the surgery as the possible cancer. And the surgery did almost kill me so I needed followup surgery! Unfortunately, I joined the club of 500,000 American women that have hysterectomies each year.