7/30/2023 0 Comments Endo warrior memeI’ll just tell you this: it is extremely painful! I will not bore you with the symptoms and complications that endo brings along with it. Approximately 6 – 10 percent of women of reproductive age worldwide have endometriosis. This tissue thickens, and in response to hormones each month, breaks down and bleeds during menstruation, usually causing severe pain. It is an incurable gynecological condition that occurs when tissue normally found within the uterus grows in other areas of the body. Some might be wondering what endometriosis is. Hereafter, I will at times refer to endometriosis as endo. March is the beautiful month of endometriosis awareness. I am thankful for the disease endometriosis. I know there is nothing particularly special about that number, but it is monumental to me as I thank God for life and endometriosis! Yes, you read right. It’s such beautiful month for so many reasons, one of them being that I was born in this month, and I always look forward to this time of the year so that I can reflect on the previous year, plan and pray for the one ahead□ It has been seven months since that diagnosis, and I’m still raw, but I am coping, and I am here to celebrate beautiful March. I have always loved children, and I was looking forward to having a football team of children. As the firstborn, I ordained myself as deputy parent to my siblings. I look back and picture myself at 24 years, a young bride, hopelessly in love yet unaware and unprepared for the pain that I was going to endure. Photo: Assured Busangabanye | Tanadu Atelier There is nothing like being told ‘officially’ that there is something wrong with you.īeing reminded of the fact that the one thing that other women work hard to prevent every month is the one thing you yearn for more than anything in the world. I had initially felt relieved that finally I could move forward, but it was not easy. Getting a diagnosis can be a double-edged sword. It didn’t help that my husband was out of town for work. One visit still stands out to me because I remember feeling so alone and crying nonstop for 30 minutes. Over a series of visits, the doctor did his best to explain my options. Then came the tears and a lot of feeling sorry for myself mixed in with a good measure of heart-wrenching emotional pain.Īfter calming myself down, I grabbed my phone to google the terms that the doctor had tried to explain to me over and over again using diagrams earlier in the day. So many questions went through my mind, and I even tried to remember some wrong I might have done to deserve this diagnosis. My initial response quickly turned into anger. Because I had been struggling and praying over my failure to have a child, it was a relief to finally put a name to my pain. My initial reaction was the odd mixture of shock and relief. Studies show that endo can be found in 50 percent of infertile women. I was diagnosed with endometriosis in July 2020 after so many years of wondering what was wrong with me. I did not realize that the two were related and that so many women are affected like me. I have also spent the last eight years consulting numerous doctors because of my unexplained infertility. It’s the kind of pain that pain medications don’t even begin to soothe. I have struggled with excruciating menstrual periods since I was a teenager.
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