After having suffered painful periods for years, they changed after having children. More pain, more bleeding, heavy clotting, and dizziness. Sometimes I missed periods. Sometimes they happened every 2 weeks, sometimes there was spotting in between....
En lire plusHaving Endometriosis is just as serious as any other health issue. I've had three miscarriages and two successful all because of this disease. I need to learn how to take control of my mind body and spirit. Living with this, is sometimes mentally draining and...
En lire plusI have heavy bleeding that can go up to 10 days, there are months where I have my period twice in the month. I feel exhausted, I have sharp knife- like pain in my abdomen and pelvic area. I also become bloated and look like...
En lire plusI have a career and work full time but over the years I have began to miss more days off work and special events. Endometriosis is unpredictable and you simply cannot plan for the future due to the lack of freedom from the symptoms....
En lire plusI had a lot of pain at the beginning of my period. I also as a teenager had very wild acne. I bleed very heavily when I am permitted to have periods -- more than an overnight pad per hour....
En lire plusI haven't had sex in 6 years as I am too scared to face the pain that I know will happen. I avoid relationships pretty much 100%. I try my best to hide the everyday pain but constantly have pain relievers and heat bags. It...
En lire plusI definitely would have chosen excision, but I was not given an option. He operated on me while I was put out for the initial diagnostic laparoscopy. It took 7 years of dismissal and being told everything was in my head just to find out...
En lire plusI remember I was told I was in surgery for 5 1/2 hours, because the surgeon couldn't believe how much endo grew in my body. I remember waking up in my hospital room, which was a semi private room to a nurse waking me up...
En lire plusI used to be active and confident and now I feel useless and ashamed of my own pain. I can't be out in public long, pain flare ups appear out of nowhere, I'm exhausted from doing the simplest of tasks and constantly irritable from being...
En lire plusI was waitlisted for treatment and paid $35,000 to get surgery in the US at an endo centre. I had 5 more surgeries in Canada from 2000 to 2002. I am no longer a surgical candidate. I am only eligible for pain meds now. I was...
En lire plusEndometriosis has had a significant impact on both my career path and my ability to have children. At 28 I was told there was almost no chance I would conceive naturally and would need to go through the IVF process in order to try to...
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