Raising awareness about endometriosis.

Idk who else is going to see this thread but everyone else in these comments right now sucks yo. I would also be making videos about my horrible medical experience in hopes the awareness made other people have a less awful time at the doctor. Not to mention how HORRIBLY doctors treat women already. Like I know this is reddit but Jesus guys grow a cerebrum

quite informative and damn she's tough

If men suffered from this, there'd be a fucking cure yesterday.

This why awareness on endo is so important. There are lot of women who are being fooled into believing that pain is normal!

"Endometriosis affects an estimated 200 million women and those born with a uterus worldwide and more than 1 in 10 in the U.S."

https://www.endofound.org/endometriosis

Trying to get a medical professional to listen to you is truly hell when you're afab poc, black especially🙏🏽 glad this person got treatment, sad for all the people who get dismissed and don't have private 😭

I'll be getting my surgery done in sept.

I suspect that I have endometriosis, because the pain spreads from my abdomen all the way to my legs, I have irregular periods and whenever I get one, I literally scream in my sleep, puke and faint from the pain. I got stabbed and it didn't hurt as much as my periods do.

I remember when I was young and I collapsed from the pain during PE and my gym teacher kicked me telling me to get up and stop being dramatic. He had steel capped toes. So now on top of deliberating pain I also had a bruise.

Why do people never believe you when you say "this hurts"?

The number of times I heard "periods are supposed to be painful" drove me crazy. At one point I had a doctor sit down and draw a picture of the uterus and ovaries and explain like I was an idiot how menstruation works.

Finally I went to a gynecologist who looked at my laparoscopy pictures and asked "how long have you had endometriosis?"

She assumed that I was told after the exploratory laparoscopy. I had never gotten a follow up except them suggesting starting me on lupron to see if it helped.

I cried that day because I finally had an answer (that I had suspected) and someone finally believed me.

Love it for me. I was just a big cry baby my whole life because it’s just some mild cramping! Until I got hysterectomy and my MALE OBGYN that I only had for the surgery apologized that I’ve dealt with the unimaginable pain from the amount of uterine tissue growing outside of my uterus. Had no idea I even had endometriosis because I was just a fat whiny bitch about my period. So fun.