00:00Period pain, that causes you to pass out, throw up, unable to eat, doesn't go away with any painkillers, isn't normal.
00:20Unfortunately, every doctor that I've seen since I was 14 years old dismissed all the symptoms as me just having my period and that's just what my body wants to do.
00:29This is a healthy uterus. And this is a uterus with a disease called endometriosis.
00:34This disease causes tissue to grow outside the uterus. Endometriosis causes pain, organ dysfunction, and in some cases, like mine, infertility.
00:44Yep, my uterus looks like this and that's why I couldn't get pregnant naturally.
00:48I feel like one of the things that isn't talked about a lot with endo is feeling like you can do something and then getting halfway through it, like going for a walk, and then realizing that you don't have enough energy to get home.
01:18I get a lot of questions about what my pain feels like, and a lot of the times it's really hard to articulate, but right now specifically, I have my pain right here on my left side of my lower abdomen, shooting down my leg.
01:39And it feels like it's on fire, but also in like a fist, but it also feels like there's barbed wire like scraping it, and it also feels like things are like pulling.
01:48I need to go start driving again, but I'm scared that it's gonna happen when I'm driving.
01:52I have a disease called endometriosis, and I had a mass that was the size of a grapefruit on my ovary, and all of my organs, internal organs, and reproductive organs are cemented together.
02:04And I also know that my egg reserve is bad because I did look into freezing my eggs.
02:08I'm dealing with a tough pain day with my endometriosis, so I thought I'd share what I do on a day where I'm hurting.
02:14Heat really helps when I'm having horrible cramps, so I use my heating pad and lie down.
02:18I got my menstrual cycle for 10 days every two weeks.
02:22It was very, very heavy, very, very painful.
02:25About two days or three days after my period when I was ovulating, I would be in such excruciating pain I could not walk.
02:32Things did not start being taken serious by doctors until my stomach looked like, hold on.
02:37This is what my stomach looked like.
02:47He then says that my pain while running is psychosomatic.
02:51One of my favorite female medics was in the back corner looking like she was about to have an aneurysm.
02:57But I did witness a grown man explain to a grown woman how the uterus works and then tell her her pain is not real.
03:09Upside to that story, I now am getting hysterectomy to be rid of my pain.
03:19Okay, Batman, we'll take it from here.
03:21If you're one of the 200 million people whose uterus is affected by endometriosis, stay hopeful.
03:27Even Marilyn Monroe suffered from endometriosis.
03:30And she's iconic, just like you.
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