hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously
hey it’s march again let’s get this post circulating again
@deadcatwithaflamethrower any thing to add?
Sure. I had to get a partial hysterectomy due to fucking Endometriosis at age 28. It’s a minor miracle that I have children at all because the symptoms were *immediately* apparent when my periods began at age 12, but they were ignored by my parents (who told me I was faking while I lay in bed crying from the pain) and ignored by most medical professionals until I self-diagnosed at age 23 and got back on the birth control. I STILL was only pro-diagnosed after my first c-section when they could see the evidence of it while yanking my first kid out of my womb. I still couldn’t get treated for it until after I’d had my second child, after which my uterus began eating itself due to the Endometriosis. Oh, and my fallopian tubes were backflooding with blood because of it, so those had to be yanked along with my uterus.
Know the signs of Endometriosis, because it isn’t just sterility you’re risking.
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