by admin | Mar 18, 2018 | Endo stories
“Can I call you an ambulance?” I shook my head, and looked up, trying to bring my sweaty focus from the tiled floor up to her face. Everything was blurry. Doubled over on the seat I hugged myself tighter, wheezing, shrinking into a ball as white hot pain ripped...
by admin | Mar 18, 2018 | Endo events, Endo medical, Endo research and education
Three researchers at the Royal Women’s Hospital will share in grants worth $30,000 from Endometriosis Australia. Successful grant recipient, Dr Jacqueline Donoghue, from the Women’s Gynaecology Research Centre and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University...
by admin | Mar 14, 2018 | Endo news and media
The Government will allocate $2.5 million to endometriosis research, as part of the first-ever national plan to address the disease that affects one in 10 women. “We are determined to do more to support endometriosis sufferers around Australia,” Health...
by admin | Mar 7, 2018 | Endo news and media, Endo stories
At the age of 31, after battling years of acute and intense pain, Lena Dunham made the decision to get a full hysterectomy. In a piece for this month’s Vogue, she outlines how she got to a point where removing her uterus was a viable and necessary option to ease the...
by admin | Feb 22, 2018 | Endo support
By Ash Ricardo For the past 10 years I have dealt with chronic abdominal pain that was diagnosed by various specialists as everything from IBS to anxiety. But after thousands of dollars spent on consultations and scans and numerous treatment plans later, nothing...