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Don't Have Endo? Please Read!

• The Letter From Survivors
  
  
• Public Service Announcement!
  
  
• We Are Not Seekers
  
  
• What I Should Have Said
  
  
• "...but have you tried..."
  
  
• Sick Humor: The top ten worst
  suggestions commonly given to
  someone with a chronic illness
  
  
• Our Life In Comics

Important Pages

• Research and Medical Journals
  
  
• Myths about Endometriosis
  
  
• YouTube Video Blogs
  
  
• Applying For Disability
  
  
• Be Aware!
  
  
• Endo and Menopause
  
  
• Is Endo A Cancer?
  
  
• Job Discrimination
  
  
• Fallen Endo Sisters

Mankoski Pain Scale

0 - Pain Free

1 - Very minor annoyance - occasional
minor twinges. No medication needed.

2 - Minor Annoyance - occasional
strong twinges.
No medication needed.

3 - Annoying enough to be distracting.
Mild painkillers take care of it.
(Aspirin, Ibuprofen.)

4 - Can be ignored if you are really
involved in your work, but still
distracting. Mild painkillers remove
pain for 3-4 hours.

5 - Can't be ignored for more than 30
minutes. Mild painkillers ameliorate
pain for 3-4 hours.

6 - Can't be ignored for any length of
time, but you can still go to work and
participate in social activities.
Stronger painkillers (Codeine,
narcotics) reduce pain for 3-4 hours.

7 - Makes it difficult to concentrate,
interferes with sleep. You can still
function with effort. Stronger
painkillers are only partially effective.

8 - Physical activity severely limited.
You can read and converse with effort.
Nausea and dizziness set in as factors
of pain.

9 - Unable to speak. Crying out or
moaning uncontrollably - near delirium.

10 - Unconscious. Pain makes you
pass out.

© Andrea Mankoski

Organisations

• Endometriosis Association
  
  
• Endometriosis Research Center
  
  
• endometriosis.org
  
  
• World Endometriosis Foundation
  
  
• Center for Endometriosis Care

Symptom Tracking

• CureTogether.com - Compare
  symptoms with people like you,
  Find treatments that work,
  Optimize your health
  
  
• ReliefInSite.com - Real-time pain
  mapping, monitoring, analysis
  
  
• MyMonthlyCycles.com - free
  personalized tools to track,
  monitor, and manage your
  monthly menstrual cycles!

Endo Products

• HagRag.com - cloth
  menstrual pads
  
  
• Lola's Loft - cloth
  menstrual pads
  
  
• Naturally Hip - cloth
  menstrual pads
  
  
• EndoFEMM - Microwavable
  corn-filled cloth heating pads
  (mention you saw them here
  and get 10% off your order!)
  
  
• Bed desk - use for books,
  writing, laptop, eating while
  bedridden from the pain
  
  

Endo Blogs

• A Day In The Life…
• Amanda’s Patch
• Autoimmune Life
• Canadian Girl In Pain
• Chronic Healing
• Dear Thyroid
• Endo en Vogue
• Endo Friendo
• Endo Journey
• Endo Living
• Endometriosis Interactive Support
• Endometriosis Journey
• Endometriosis: Facing The Battle Head On
• Endometriosis: The Silent Life Sentence
• Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
• Foxy In The Waiting Room
• Hope Garden
• I Will Not Suffer In Silence - My continuing Endometriosis story
• Jenny With Endo
• light at the end of the tunnel
• Lupron Journal
• My Healing Journey
• Ready Go: Battling Endometriosis
• SansUterus
• Squidgeaboo’s Endo Blog
• The Battle Continues…
• The Ins and Outs of Endo

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