I'm a 36 year old. I have always had irregular, painful and heavy periods since I began my period when I was 12yrs old. I was nauseous, missed a lot of school and headaches all the time. When brought up to my family doctor at...
En lire plusI always had bad cramps growing up, put on birth control at 15. Then sex became terribly painful in my early 20s. Like a light switch, one day at the age of 23, my main symptoms began: 3 out of 4 weeks a month I...
En lire plus20 years. It took 20 years for me to be diagnosed. Some of that was because I didn't know how to advocate for myself. Everyone told me periods are "supposed to hurt". When I asked GPs and gynecologists why my cramps were bad, why it...
En lire plusMy symptoms started with every day spotting which was resolved by starting birth control at age 19. I had my first flare up at 31 after coming off birth control to try and conceive. The pain was so bad it woke me up with a...
En lire plusEndometriosis has taken a lot of things like my job I was doing home care, taking care of others. It made me happy, now I just stay home or go out for rides. I also tried walking around in stores but I felt like I...
En lire plusTo receive a diagnosis of Endometriosis took me eight years of persistently advocating for myself, starting from the age of 13. My periods were never normal, and I knew this from talking to my friends about their periods. Between the ages of 13 and 20,...
En lire plusFrom age 14 to 21 I must have had weekly visits with my family doctor. He never sent me to any specialists, just tried different birth control pills because he kept telling me “all girls my age have cramps”. When I was 21 my appendix...
En lire plusEndometriosis is debilitating. There are days I’m in so much pain that I can’t get out of bed. It is really hard to live your life when you are terrified the pain will come back unexpectedly....
En lire plusI knew the pain that came with my periods was not normal right off the bat. I would be the only one missing days of school, the only I knew who needed help walking to and from the bathroom just to painfully urinate. At 14...
En lire plusI live with daily cramping, sometimes manageable, sometimes so bad I can't get out of bed. The pain radiates through my left side and down my back and leg. Gas pain brings me to my knees. I don't remember the last time I went a...
En lire plusEndometriosis is something that I'm constantly having to plan around. I know that when I get my period I'll be bedridden, so I have to decline social events because of it, or constantly try to reschedule things. If I can't cancel or reschedule something, I...
En lire plusIt took me a very long time to get diagnosed. I was not diagnosed until I turned 33 years. My husband (at that time) and I were trying to get pregnant and it was a struggle. I was just told to take pain killers for...
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