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March is Endo Awareness month! I’d like to do several posts detailing some information about endo in general, myself and my experiences with endo and shed some light. Starting with this one about ‘My Diagnosis’...

I was officially diagnosed about a year and a half ago. I was initially diagnosed with polycystic ovaries without proper consultation and when the treatments for this didn’t work I ended up collapsing and being hospitalised. Due to this, they agreed to do a diagnostic laproscopy- which is the ONLY way to properly diagnose endometriosis. After this, they confirmed I had it and the surgeon told me it was ‘extreme’. 

I feel quite fortunate to have been diagnosed fairly quickly as on average it takes seven years for a woman to be properly diagnosed with endo. This is far too long. After my initial laproscopy, I had excision surgery where the surgeon informed me it was stage 4 and was absolutely everywhere. My bowel was fused to my uterus, I had a 5cm ‘chocolate cyst’ or endometrioma, my pouch of douglas, ovaries and uterus were covered but they did manage to excise a lot of it. 

Seven years is too long for anyone to be suffering, it should not be the uphill battle that it is for a woman to be diagnosed and treated. It’s debilitating, life changing and exhausting in every possible way.