What's the best way to hide a frumpy tummy?

[LadySybilLikesCake]

I have fibroids and I look 4/5 months pregnant, they push my intestines up and they are solid so tummy control knickers won't work. I'd love to hide it, but I don't know how. Tunics don't work, nor do empire line dresses (thanks, Boden), or anything with tights/leggings. I seem to live in jeans and various tops with scafs to cover it, but I feel frumpy all the time. I'm going to ask for surgery to remove them, but I'm stuck with them in the mean time. Any ideas how I can feel more like 'me'? Pre ds I was a size 6, now I'm a 12, and I'm 5 foot 2.

Please help!

I have an issue with a diastasis which means my tummy is also disproportionately large to the rest of me. I am working on it, but in the meantime it's a nightmare to dress as I am 8-10 in some places but 12-14 across the middle.

The only things I feel really comfortable in are high waisted jeans and high waisted pencil style skirts. Then I can kind of wear whatever loosish top I like with it without having to go really loose. I find trying to cover it with a top if the bottom half isn't right doesn't really work. Some dresses work, but only if there's a lot of drapery material, I'm still experimenting with what I can wear in that regard.

Next are good for high waisted jeans, also Dorothy Perkins did a high waisted jegging that I've lived in as have the look of jeans but with extra stretch so comfortable. Think it was called Brooke.

I've written high waisted a lot in this post, but that's my life at the moment

Thank you, that's really helpful. I've been living in jeans for the past year, I have so many lovely clothes upstairs but they just look wrong or won't fit at the moment. I'm an 8-10 on the top, 12-14 across my stomach too (I used to be an 8-10 all over, a 6 before I was pregnant). I think a pencil skirt might work with a fairly baggy top but I'd have to find one. Dresses with high waist's/empire lines skim over it but clench in above, so I look pregnant.

Thank you

I have the same issue with fibroids + according to my doctor my tummy is same size as a 20 week pregnancy ?? I wear elasticated waist jersey pencil skirts from Next or Red Herring Georgia jeggings with long floaty tops over them.

Thank you. I'm sooo sick of jeans!

I have three. 2 are side by side, they were both 6cm when I was last scanned so are 12 cm, probably puts me at '20 weeks' now too. I tried taking esmya to shrink them but it didn't work, and embolising them won't work either as they are on stalks on the outside so could cause infection. I hope you're getting help with yours

I'm on waiting list for embolisation, LadySybil but it's along wait and I'm getting bigger + more self-conscious in the meantime. Keep looking in wardrobe longingly at all the clothes I can no longer fit in to!

Yup, me too

My sister had hers embolised and she's said that it's working, it's a slow progress though. I've tried organic/cutting out junk/cutting out wheat/cutting out dairy etc. I've also tried acupuncture but hey ho.

My consultant told me the only way to completely get rid of them was to have a hysterectomy but I'm not too keen on that idea so I'll carry on as I am the moment! Will be layering my floaty tops with long cardis come the winter + hoping for the best!

I think that's the 'standard' treatment, they must tell a lot of women that. I've seen 2 different consultants and both of them suggested his as the only option, and only discussed esmya/embolisation etc when I said no and asked about the alternatives. 2 of my aunt's had hysterectomies for fibroids, both in their mid 20s and both childless and unmarried so they seem to offer this to readily I think. They do grow back after a myomectomy but I'll be menopausal by the time they do (probably) so I'm not worried about that, I just can't breathe if I bend down and they are painful. I hope things go OK