Let's get the hard part out of the way first: I have endometriosis.Endometriosis is a disease where endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus. It's a debilitating condition that affects one in 10 girls and women in the United States. One in 10! That means you probably know someone who has

The relationship I had with my body was deteriorating.I had begun to resent it for the sharp, piercing sensation it allowed to course through my pelvis and abdomen. The pain, predominantly on my left side, would randomly burst inside me throughout the day — interrupting classes, making simple tasks

A woman with undiagnosed endometriosis is a woman constantly Googling things. Like so many tweens, teens, and twenty-something females with this reproductive disease, which is still seldom diagnosed in 2016, I went to no less than a million doctors seeking an answer as to why I felt so sick so

"Your legs look amazing. Whatever you're doing, it's working," my friend said, handing me a romper through the curtain of an Urban Outfitters dressing room."I'm not doing anything," I said. She scoffed, but it was the truth. Weight was melting off my body even though I was constantly eating. There

Ever since I was 11 years old, I’ve experienced crippling, life-altering pain with my period. It took me 13 years to finally get a doctor to take me seriously.Every month, for at least a day or two, my period would land me in bed, completely paralyzed with pain and desperately clinging to a heating