Endometriosis, or the Best Bad News I’ve Ever Gotten

Before my diagnosis, I spent half my life playing a long and painful guessing game

Amy Barthel
Human Parts
Published in
13 min readDec 19, 2019

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Micrograph of endometriosis. Photo: OGphoto/Getty Images

II was 30 the first time I heard the word “endometriosis” in a medical setting. Before that, I’d encountered it only in private conversations, in web forums, in drug commercials among myriad terrifying symptoms and side effects. And, most…

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Amy Barthel
Human Parts

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