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
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13 min readDec 19, 2019
I 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…