Hi, my name is Kayla. I am currently 22 years old and at the age of 16 I was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (IC) after a few years of battling with UTIs. I was wrote off by many doctors as just having a bladder infection, that is until the day …

Hello my name is Latoya. I’m 27 years old. I have stage 4 endometriosis. I have been through five surgeries due to cysts in my ovaries, removal of my appendix, and tubes being cut and burned due to having a hydrosalpinx, which is a distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous …

When my son was three months old and my daughter was due to start reception class at school, I was taken into the hospital with an extremely rare but life threatening condition. Although the symptoms had been present for weeks before the illness had really taken hold of me. For …

I am 27 years old and I have had three surgeries for endometriosis since I was informed that I had it in an ER at age 24. I went in with pain in my right side, the doctors where going to send me for surgery for my appendix when they …

In the spring of 2011 I felt a lump in my left breast. I ignored it and didn’t feel it again until a few months later. After panicking I went to my OB/GYN. She immediately sent me for a mammogram. After a mammogram, ultrasound, biopsy, PET/CT, and bone scans, I …

I was diagnosed with endometriosis in April of 2010 at the age of 22. After many months of agony and many visits to the ER with no end or pain relief in sight my doctor finally decided it was time for a laparoscopy to determine if endometriosis was the cause. …

In late 2010, at the age of 20, after years of HORRIBLE periods, irregular spotting, nausea, and being told it was all in my head, I was finally diagnosed with endometriosis. Over the next few months, I was scheduled for my first laparoscopy. In that time the doctors made it …

In April 2007, at the age of 31, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, went through treatment, and had the BRCA test done. I didn’t have the gene so I thought I was in the clear. In May 2013 I received the dreaded call that I had a rare form …

I have been a survivor of nearly four years. This early spring of 2013 I began feeling bloated. I felt a slight just barely pinch in my lower abdomen while I was coming out of the pool. I thought I had a so called “yeast infection.” My girlfriends all had …

Hello. I was first diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 19. I struggled with the pain for two years before being diagnosed. I have been truly blessed with an amazing doctor that I believe in and who believes in me too. I have had five surgeries since my diagnosis. I …