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 …
Read More »Felicia’s Story (Endometriosis, Ovarian Cysts)
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 …
Read More »Emily’s Story (Endometriosis, Ovarian Cysts)
“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 …
Read More »Alexia’s Story (Endometriosis, Ovarian Cysts)
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 …
Read More »Carol’s Story (Ovarian Cancer, Ovarian Cysts)
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 …
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