I had a roommate in college who suffered from endometriosis. I had never heard of it before that, and haven’t known any sufferers since, but her experience sticks with me. She had super heavy periods and a lot of pain. The tissue that is meant to shed from the inside of the uterus and exit through the vagina actually sheds on the outside, and having no place to go, causes inflammation. Apparently, not all doctors do exhaustive tests to find out if a woman presenting with such symptoms could be afflicted by this condition.
April 10, 2023