im probably going to lose followers for sharing this but i truly don’t care.
i had debilitating pain for years and doctors told me i just had “bad periods.” then i had an emergency appendectomy that revealed stage 4 endometriosis. i can’t imagine living my life without answers or actual treatment.
surgery is currently the only way to definitively diagnose endo, but about 1 in 10 women have it. so many of us are dismissed by doctors, our pain is minimized, and we’re made to feel crazy for complaining about something we’re told is “normal.”
no one should have to wait for an unrelated emergency surgery to prove their pain is real.
endometriosis can also greatly impact fertility. reproductive health matters far beyond fertility, but if politicians are so obsessed with women having more children, maybe they should start by funding the conditions that are actively making that harder.