MISSING MY LIFE: Remembering my first year with fibromyalgia and the lessons it tried to teach me. Yes I did type “tried” to teach me, as I am obviously a slow learner when it comes to my will power versus my body’s capabilities and limits. I like most people had …

After a trip to the ER for an intestinal problem, I found out I was six weeks pregnant with my second child and had a large tumor on my right kidney. I feel so blessed that it was caught early enough and that both the surgery and the pregnancy were …

I was diagnosed with uterine cancer in April of this year and I am inspired by the stories on this website and others I’ve known who have battled cancer to “Fight Like a Girl!” Since the OB/GYN first discovered that I had atypical hyperplasia in 2010 I have been fighting. …

Hi all. Where to begin? I feel I am writing because I am in one word confused. I had abdominal pain and nausea for about six years now (I’m 26). I was diagnosed with IBS after they basically couldn’t come up with any other conclusion after numerous test and people …

I was a completely active athletic child till the age of 12 , all of a sudden out of nowhere I began to have paralyzing pains that would leave me in a fetal position for I don’t know how long. One day when I was pushing on my stomach crouched …

Pain, Pain Go Away and Do Not Come Back Another Day My experiences with abdominal pain got unbearable when I was thirty-three years old and after much pain, work hours missed, testing, and finally surgery I was finally diagnosed with endometriosis. Before this debilitating disease struck, I was very active …

I’ve been suffering for coming up either five or six years now, it has been such a long and painful process, I think I’ve lost count! It started when I would double over in pain with my stomach, and cry, which would turn to screaming. After this the pain would …

As a young girl I couldn’t wait, as I would like to think many little girls go through, with the anticipation of growing into my body like a young woman does. To finally fill up my training bras and fill out my t-shirts. I remember the great sense of loss …

My mother-in-law was putting some cream on my back because I have petechia, and she noticed a brown spot on my back and thought nothing of it. She then put more cream on my back a few days later and noticed the spot had turned purple and black and was …

I was 19 years old, newly married, and had just moved to Texas from Florida. I started to have some swelling in my left leg and it became quite painful. So my husband at the time brought me to an ER and after examination I was told I had pulled …