Story about Endometriosis .

Endometriosis Diagnosis

Mar 20, 2017


I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 28 years old. The research is now telling us that you are born with this disease and on average it takes doctors 10 years to diagnose patients. I knew something was wrong from my teenage years where I suffered chronic pelvic pain and chronic fatigue. I have undergone 4 laparoscopic surgeries throughout the years to remove the lesions from my other organs and struggled with infertility. I find there is a lot of misinformation out there on what treatment options are available to actually treat our symptoms and not just mask them. I hope that through awareness and research they will one day find a cure. There currently is no cure for endometriosis. After I had a child at age 38, which for endometriosis sufferers is actually quite normal, my endometriosis became much worse putting me off work. Doctors tried to convince me that a hysterectomy was my only option but we also now know that a hysterectomy does not cure endometriosis and it actually will come back even after a full removal of the uterus and ovaries. I want to help other people with this disease by sharing my journey with this disease so that others just getting their diagnoses can make better choices while trying to understand this disease that affects 176 million woman worldwide.

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