Cause: Ovarian Cysts

I started my periods at 10, and from the start, they were painful. I was told that the cramps were normal, despite the fact that I regularly threw up or fainted from pain, and my bleeding couldn’t possibly be as heavy as I claimed. No one actually bothered to measure …

My story starts out like most others’, I would imagine. I got my first period when I was 10 years old, and at first I thought, “Yay! I’m like a woman now!” Little did I know how much my life would be impacted by my periods. For years, I dreaded …

“They’re just cramps. You’re fine. Go to school.” Every girl has heard this in her lifetime. For me, cycle time was always super heavy and painful, most times requiring a hot bath to release me from the fetal position I would wake up in or crunch into. I had vomiting and painful migraines …

I have been struggling with my health for years. I was diagnosed very young with hypothyroidism, anemia, and ovarian cysts. Thankfully the hypothyroidism was gone by the time I graduated college, but I still get tested every year during my physical to make sure my levels are still good. Every …

When my last child was born I had my tubes tied because after having three c-sections, having another child would have been life-threatening to me and my baby. This was in 1996. One year later, I started getting a cyst on my right ovary. The cyst came and went every …