Insight Endometriosis5 minDonna's Story "More education is needed"Endometriosis has effectively ruined my life. It caused me to have severe depression and its affected my relationships
Insight Endometriosis3 minBarb's Story "Adoption, IVF and Endometriosis"I remember the new specialist saying I was unlucky that I had severe endometriosis but lucky that I only suffered pain one or two days
Insight Endometriosis3 minJo's Story "While my journey with endometriosis has been very up and down, it has made me stronger"Surgeries, different contraceptive pills, Mirena IUD, painkillers, cutting down on caffeine and sugar, more exercise, fruits and vegetables.
Insight Endometriosis3 minDebbie's Story "Painful periods are not normal"With endometriosis in the family I made my GP aware
Insight Endometriosis5 minJo's Story "Endometriosis and Internal Cystitis"The other symptoms of endometriosis - frequent trips to the bathroom, painful sex, UTI's and internal cystitis
Insight Endometriosis3 minCaitlin's Story "Missing school work and time with friends"Found on my pelvic sidewalls, bowel & pouch of Douglas. Adhesions on my bowel & a lot of scarring. I was so relieved to have a diagnosis
Insight Endometriosis2 minKaren's Story "Bleeding was unpredictable"In the end, after years of suffering and nothing working and the symptoms getting progressively worse, I had a hysterectomy.
Insight Endometriosis4 minShelley's Story "Was it Irritable Bowel Syndrome?"I brought up the subject of endometriosis with my doctor but she thought my problem was Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Insight Endometriosis1 minJess's Story "10 year's of being told the pain was in my head"Endometriosis was found in my pouch of douglas. My ovaries, uterus and one fallopian tube were attached to my pelvic wall with scar tissue.
Insight Endometriosis2 minSteph's Story "My sister's laparoscopic surgey led me to surgery and my own diagnosis"Overall not the outcome I had hoped for, but it’s a lot better than it would have been had I not done anything about it.
Insight Endometriosis2 minA friend's perspective of supporting someone with endometriosisIt’s bloody hard supporting someone, trying to understand what they are really going through, when you haven’t experienced it yourself.
Insight Endometriosis3 minA mother's perspective of endometriosisI began to question – why was this happening to my daughter?
Insight Endometriosis3 minMatty's Story "Herbal treatment worked for me"Whilst studying to be a Medical Herbalist it dawned on me from a case study that I had a lot of the endometriosis symptoms described.
Insight Endometriosis6 minA teen's perspective of having endometriosisI was told at 14 becoming pregnant might help and a couple of years later was told that I was too young to have endometriosis.
Insight Endometriosis2 minGinny's Story "If you feel instinctively that something isn’t right with your body - believe it"A prognosis of endometriosis does not necessarily mean that your fertility will be affected.
Insight Endometriosis4 minLaura's Story "My bowel, bladder and ovary on my left side were all stuck together"I was determined to find out more about endometriosis.
Insight Endometriosis6 minVanessa's Story "be strong, don't give up, fight it every way"I decided to fight for a hysterectomy.
Insight Endometriosis3 minAnne's Story "Not curing endometriosis but managing endometriosis"I've maanged to keep myself reasonably pain-free through diet and exercise