The worst part is grieving your past self. Not knowing if you’ll ever be the person you once were. Not knowing who you are now. It’s hard. It affects your sleep. It affects your relationships. It affects your sexual health and activities. It affects your...
En lire plusOver the past 7 years, I’ve seen over 20 different doctors and specialists and no one was ever able to properly diagnose or treat me. Myself and my family have spent tens of thousands of dollars in alternative treatments to try and get me well....
En lire plusWhen you go to emerg due to the excruciating pain & they send you home it is so discouraging that it causes some depression. ...
En lire plusIdentifying the likely cause of my pain meant that I could speak about my health journey with others more, which has led to further support....
En lire plusIt has happened several times that I have missed exams at school and that I had to deal with the loss of points on my own because I knew that the teachers would never accept “pain from my period” as a valid excuse....
En lire plusThe doctor performed a pelvic ultrasound and saw the endometriosis right away ...
En lire plusLiving in chronic pain and not being able to parent, socialize, work, or take care of myself at times has been extremely difficult. Some days I thought my husband and son would be better off without me and I was an extreme burden on both...
En lire plusI ended up over time changing my job to something more sedentary to avoid missing work. I used to work as an RN in hospitals, and eventually moved into occupational health nursing, and my role in this type of nursing allowed me to work from...
En lire plusEndometriosis takes everything away from you: your job, your friends, your spouse, your ability to think clearly, because the pain is too intense....
En lire plusEndometriosis may have been the reason I had such difficulty becoming pregnant and the reason for my miscarriages. It stole the ability for me to have a biological child. On the other hand it gave me a powerful internal drive of advocacy and the passion...
En lire plusI have done IVF that ended in a miscarriage. Our idea of multiple children or any at all seems like an unattainable dream. It's heartbreaking to think that we may not have a family of our own. However, I'm also afraid that if we have...
En lire plusHealth care for endometriosis needs to be more common in smaller towns or cities, as in more specialists need to help more patients than just the one or 2 specialists that are available and you have to wait for 6 months to a year to...
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