Don’t let your doctors disregard serious pain as “just cramps.” It happens far too often &, if it’s bad, it needs addressing!
PC: Wikipedia Commons
Endometriosis.
I in 10 women suffer from the chronic auto-immune condition known as endometriosis.
I’m one of those ten – a condition I unfortunately inherited from my mother.
If you don’t know what endometriosis is, it is “[a] disease in which tissue similar to the lining inside the uterus … [is] found outside the uterus, where it induces a chronic inflammatory reaction that may result in scar tissue” (according to Endometriosis.org, 2019).
Basically, if the above makes very little sense to you, endometriosis is painful as all fuck. By the time I was fifteen, my periods were incredibly irregular, excessively heavy, and came twice a month. Each time it came, I’d vomit endlessly until I would inevitably pass out from the pain.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned somewhere before how passing out became so common I’d use disabled toilets because it’d be less obvious whenever I did pass…
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