Maybe my pain wasn’t normal.. If there was a potential cause for my pain, then maybe there was a treatment. That was what spurred me on to keep questioning the pain that I had accepted for so long. I have had many instances where my period pain has rooted me to the spot. I remember one Saturday in my late…
I want to share my journey to diagnosis from the beginning, so I’m going way back to 2005. It all began at 16, I was so envious of all my friends having their periods. I was the last one to get it and it felt like they were all in a secret club that I desperately wanted in on. Oh…
Endometriosis wasn’t a word I heard growing up. I never heard of anyone I know having it. It was never mentioned in sex ed when we learned about periods. I’m pretty sure my parents were totally unaware of its existence, same as I was, until the last few years when my symptoms became too severe to ignore. If we don’t…
