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Interesting read, but it’s too bad they listed fulguration and hormone drugs as treatments but failed to include excision surgery

Fay this is worth a read

🤣Think it was for all female issues they didn’t understand...physical, mental or emitional😂

'Wandering womb'... Isn't that what hysteria was meant to be caused be?

I have endometriosis and IBS, and my doctors still haven't linked the two (but it is interesting how my IBS flares up a week before my period, and when I ovulate)! I 'manage' both conditions, but now they are beginning to take their toll. Time for more surgery, I think!

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20 years and 11 operations, dozens of doctors telling me that I was exaggerating, too young, just too sensitive to pain (me, a woman who broke her ankle and didn't realize, just thought it was sprained) so many things doctors say before admitting that we know our bodies. I had endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids, cysts and 2 treatments for pre cancerous cells but didn't know how much pain I was in!!! I finally got a hysterectomy 6 months ago and the surgeon who did it said it should have been done years earlier to save a lot of the damage I am left coping with. Doctors really need to wake up so the younger generation don't have to live this sort of nightmare!!!!

Hysterical indeed! I was dismissed so many times for my excruciating pain and told by doctors I needed a shrink not a surgeon... then years later they finally pulled football sized tumors out of me and couldn’t believe I had survived the pain so long. My advice? Never ever give up and trust your gut. Eventually you’ll find a skilled and compassionate doctor who will listen, and help. X

My endo is out of control at the moment, I can’t afford a private specialist, I saw two GP’s yesterday as I’ve been hospitalised three times in the last month and a half. Both told me they couldn’t prescribe me anything other than Panadol and nurofen until I see the pain clinic at the hospital. It’s a two year wait for an initial appointment. Looks like wasting emergency departments time every weeks is my plan. I just give up, I hate this disease.

For some reason I can’t add a photo but I came across a question this week in an old trivial pursuit genius game. The question was: Q: What organ gave us the word “hysterical”? A: The uterus

This is so real, I’ve been told again and again that I’m too young to have real chronic pain management even though I can’t function or work properly, but I’m not too you to have a full hysterectomy! So confusing and frustrating trying to find someone who understands women’s pain.

Thomas Michl a good article about medical research and other things.

very true sadly I have experienced this far too many times and some from female Drs and medical people as well. I say this having had endometriosis that took over a year to get a diagnosis for (have heard all the cop outs in that year - it took me 10 Drs to find one that had a clue and only because his wife had endo and he suspected I may as well as what I described was so similar to what she went through- and I am so thankful I found that Dr). A few years later my adenomyosis which gave me contractions for 5 years was dismissed as "an underlying depressive illness". I get hyperemesis gravidarum with pregancy at the severe end (as in lost 35% of my body weight by 12 weeks pregnant and life threatening dehydration, malnutrition and deficiencies) - it took me finding that info online about Hg before Drs admitted that was what I had had with my 4 prior pregnancies that ended in losses. Knowing that HG diagnosis made a huge difference with my pregnancy with my daughter- 10 weeks in critical care and knowing when Drs were not looking after me properly (I was lucky and found an amazing medical team that time 🙂 ) but previously being dismissed as just morning sickness was so damaging to me both physically and mentally. I am now well aware of my rights as a patient. Lucky as I have a child with ADHD and anxiety disorder and possible high functioning asd so now I have had to fight for her - so many want to say bad parenting which could not be further from the truth (and I have arthritis in my 40's head to toe - so far more than my share of medical chronic issues over the years)- it is so frustrating. Sadly many medical people have an agenda and do not trust or listen enough to their patients. Luckily there are also some amazing Drs who patiently listen and support their patients so now I treat medical services as just that services- if one is not doing what I need then I cut them loose and find someone better educated and more supportive.

Linda

So true.

Such a well written article.

Dawn Sandford

Kristen Wentworth

Thanks for sharing