by Endo Australia Digital | Jun 10, 2018 | Endo support
Naomi Reeves is a corporate receptionist and lives in Lake Macquarie, NSW. She is married with one son. Now 50, she has been dealing with endometriosis for a long time, most likely since her first painful period at age 13. In the 80’s endometriosis had zero publicity...
by Endo Australia Digital | Apr 29, 2018 | Endo stories
I thought I was dying. I was on a family holiday, lying in our camper trailer bed with my mum and my little brother. I was 12. I think my poor mum, who was a nurse, was at her wits end by sunrise, and had given up trying to diagnose me after an hour or so. The pain in...
by Endo Australia Digital | Apr 23, 2018 | Endo medical
By Professor Luk Rombauts MD, PhD, FRANZCOG, CREI [Last updated 13 November 2025] A sad story made the headlines on the website of The Endometriosis Foundation of America. Michelle Gilmore, an Australian endometriosis patient living in Sydney, recounts how she was so...
by Endo Australia Digital | 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 Endo Australia Digital | 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...
