Stories and Experiences
A personal experience
Endometriosis may be more common than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. Research is being done, but everyone’s experience with endo is different.
Endometriosis can cause chronic pelvic pain, tiredness, and other problems like depression, anxiety, and migraines.
Read some stories from other EndoWarriors below.
A personal experience
Endometriosis may be more common than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. Research is being done, but everyone’s experience with endo is different.
Endometriosis can cause chronic pelvic pain, tiredness, and other problems like depression, anxiety, and migraines.
Read some stories from other EndoWarriors below.
What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a common disease where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows outside it in other parts of the body. More than 830,000 (more than 11%) of Australian women, girls, and those who are gender diverse suffer from endometriosis at some point in their life with the disease often starting in teenagers.
Symptoms are variable and this may contribute to the 6.5 year delay in diagnosis. Common symptoms include pelvic pain that puts life on hold around or during a person’s period. It can impact fertility for some but not for all.
Endometriosis most often affects the reproductive organs but it can also be found in and around the bowel and bladder. It has been found in every part of the body, including the skin, joints, lungs and brain.
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