Fact or Myth? Endometriosis only affects women through their childbearing years.

Myth!

Endo Alert writes:

“Most women begin to show symptoms of endometriosis in their teens. Unfortunately, with the average time to a diagnoses being around nine years these women may suffer for quite a long time before beginning treatment making the average age of women diagnosed with the disease much higher. The affects of endometriosis are also not guaranteed to go away with the onset of menopause. A woman can be neither to young nor to old to have endometriosis.”

See also Fact or Myth? Endometriosis goes away at onset of menopause.