Cause: Endometriosis

I found out I had endometriosis when I was 20 years old. I was having problems with ovarian cysts bursting so they did my first laparoscopy and they found the endometriosis. I was then put on various different birth controls to help stop the cysts and yet the endometriosis was …

My name is Charly and I’m 24-years-old. I was diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of 16 after my lap sugery and was told I would never have kids, not something that most 16-year-olds hear. Well, after that I was mostly pain-free for 6 months.  I tried 4 different types …

I think when you face a chronic disease you always find yourself thinking about “The Finish Line”. When the fighting is over, when your done, and when everything is just finished. I feel like I am facing that now. As many of you know I have been trying Lupron shots. …

It started after 8th grade (13 years old or around there). My stomach was always hurting. My periods started in 2004 so not long after that I started getting all this pain and nausea. I went to my family Dr and she did some tests and thought it was a …

I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I was 20. I’d spent almost 8 years fighting with my parents. The pain I was feeling WAS real. I wasn’t faking the curled up, rolling aroung on the floor type pain. And birth control didn’t help control my pain. One month after I …

At the end of the year we all look back and reflect upon the year we are leaving behind. The good times we have had, the changes we have went through, and then the bad times and the things we will gladly leave behind. I can personally look back and …

One of the many battles I fight inside myself is control/perfection. I never really thought of myself as a perfectionists or control freak until my husband pointed out how upset I get when my hair doesn’t do what I want or the house isn’t just so or I burn something …

You’re in a boxing ring. You’re throwing punch after punch. You’re winning. You feel that rush that for that moment you’re on top. Just when you think you’ve got your opponent beat, it comes around with a left hook that catches you off guard and completely off balance. Your neck …

I started my period when I was 9 years old. It was the scariest thing that had ever happened to me. Shortly after that, the pain and the bleeding was uncontrollable. My mom was concerned (she and her mother have endometriosis). She took me to the doctor and they just …

My name is Diana. I’m 23 and I was diagnosed with endometriosis on January 21st of 2011 which was when I had my lap procedure done.   I had always had painful periods growing up even though my period started at a normal time for a girl. It wasn’t until …